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Home Cook Chrysanthemum Tea

Recipe for Home Cook Chrysanthemum Tea: Mandatory - 50-70g dried tai-ju chrysanthemum flowers (胎菊) - 1.5 litres of water - 50g rock sugar Steps 1. Prepare mandatory and optional ingredients. I didn't have any optional ingredients, so just the mandatory ones.         2. In a small pot using medium heat, bring the water to a boil. 3. Once water starts boiling, add in rock sugar. 4. Switch to using low heat 5. Stir water consistently using soup ladle till sugar completely dissolved. 6. Once sugar completely dissolved, add in the chrysanthemums flowers. 7. Close pot with lid and immediately switch off the fire. 8. Let it simmer for at least an hour or longer. (I left it till the pot is slightly warm/around room temperature as I wanted to chill it in fridge.) 9. Remove flowers using a sieve and stored/served as required (I removed partially of it as the flowers looked nice.) Optional Ingredients (For the optional ingredients, can add it/them in together during

Easy to cook Tomato Rice

Recipe for tomato rice: A. The base for tomato rice 2 tsps olive oil (I actually used canola oil since I didn't have olive oil) 2 tsps black pepper (Or more if u like black pepper) 1 fully ripe tomato (not those small tomatoes) 2 cups of Thailand Rice Grains (The number of cups varied on your needs. 2 cups of rice can actually serves 4-5 person. I've tried both Thailand long-grain Rice and Japanese short gain Rice and still turns out well) 2 cups of water (the usual volume that you need for cooking your rice) B. Optional Ingredients Shitake/Chinese Mushroom - sliced Ham - sliced/diced Corn - remove corn from cob Carrot - sliced/diced Broccoli -  Removed the leaves and cut into smaller stalks Steps 1. Prepare the portion under B. Optional Ingredients 2. Prepare the rice as you usually does... Wash it and fill up with the usual amount of water. 3. Scoop/Cut off the top of tomato where the brown color portion. 4. Place the tomato in the centre o

Taiwan Trip 2014 - Day 3 Cingjing (清境) - Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園) - Hualien (花蓮)

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Our Itinerary Day 1 : C hangi Airport >  Taoyuan Airport  >  Sun Moon Lake  (Ita Thao) Day 2 :  S un Moon Lake >  Cingjing   Day 3 :  Cingjing 清境 > Taroko National Park 太魯閣國家公園 - Hualien 花蓮  ( Wu Ling 武嶺 >  Mt He Huan 合歡山 >  Taroko Bi Luu Shen Mu 碧綠神木 >  Swallow Grotto Trail 燕子口 >  Tian Xiang 天祥 >  Eternal Shrine 長春祠 >  Qingshui Cliff 清水斷崖 >  Qi Xing Tan) Day 4 : Hualien  Day 5 : Hualien > Taipei ( Huaxi Night Market ) Day 6 : Taipei (Jiufen >  Gongguan - Retail Outlet & Night Market) Day 7 :  Taipei (Beitou > Tamsui) Day 8 : Taipei ( Shinkong Mitsukoshi > Ximending > Shilin Night Market) Day 9:   Taipei > Taoyuan Airport ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woke up early in the morning, I prayed hard for the sunrise. We camped ourselves outside at the balcony, the weather is VERY cold! OMG Freezed my body but I sha

Taiwan Trip 2014 - Day 2 - Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) - Cingjing (清境)

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ITINERARY Day 1 :  Changi Airport > Taoyuan Airport > Sun Moon Lake  Day 2 :  Sun Moon Lake  日月潭  ( Shuishe Visitor Centre   水社旅客服務中心  >  Xuan Guang Temple   玄光寺  >  Ita Thao   伊達邵碼頭)  >  Cingjing   清境  ( Senzhilian  森之恋民宿   >  Cingjing Farm   清境農場  >  Green Green Grassland   青青草原  >  Little France  法国小镇  > Small Swiss Garden  小瑞士花園 ) Day 3 :  Cingjing >  Taroko National Park >  Hualien  Day 4 : Hualien  Day 5 :  Hualien  > Taipei ( Huaxi Night Market) Day 6 : Taipei (Jiufen >  Gongguan - Retail Outlet & Night Market) Day 7 : Taipei (Beitou > Tamsui) Day 8 : Taipei (Shinkong Mitsukoshi > Ximending > Shilin Night Market) Day 9:  Taipei > Taoyuan Airport 5.30am: The sky looks gloomy. But still we proceed to Ita Thao ferry (which is 5 min walks) hoping for a nice sunrise! 6.30am: This was the best we could capture. By almost 7am, we headed back to hotel for wash up and breakfast.