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Foodie Times: Yong Tau Foo (Food to try in Singapore)

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One of the food to recommend and commonly found in almost every food court/hawker centre would be Yong Tau Foo. Have it for a heavy breakfast or lunch or dinner, it's a "any time can eat" choice. There is a wide variety of ingredients from fried to non fried, vegetables, beancurd stuffed with fish/seafood fillings, ngoh hiang, fishball, tofu, hotdog, etc etc Basically the stall will have the food laid nicely at their front counter/rack. With a bowl and a tong, just grab the ingredients (usually I stopped at their minimum number of pieces needed to ordered). I always ordered it with yellow noodle without any soup or gravy and add on a lot of sweet sauce. But at times when I craved for hot and spicy, I will go for curry/laksa base.  Previously, the stalls I visited would scald the ingredients in hot water. The fried items turned soggy after that. But nowadays, the fried items are separated from the non-fried ones. And some stalls actually re-fried those fried ite

Easy Cold Tofu (kewpie sesame sauce and bonkita flakes)

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Easy Cold Tofu Ingredients (Serving for 1) 150g (1/2 of a 300g) silken tofu 20g of bonkita flakes Kewpie Sesame Sauce 1. Open the packet of silken tofu and slice in the middle.  2. Remove half of it and drain the water 3. Place on serving plate 4. Place bonkita flakes on top of tofu  5. Pour desired amount of Kewpie Sesame Sauce on top. Bonkita flakes Kewpie Sesame Sauce  Note: > Tofu tasted better if served cold > For better visual, reverse sequence 4 with 5 but the bonkita flakes will fly off the plate. > Kewpie is the brand. Can go for other brand's Sesame Sauce. > Add spring onions for better visual 

Foodie Times: Non Entrée Desserts

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Taste:  5 out of 5.  -  Chocolate Avalanche : Presentation was so beautiful and cute. When I cut a portion of the cake, a smooth running  chocolate started to ooze into the glass ball below. Quickly took a snapshot, I pushed the cake and biscuit down into the glass ball to eat it together with the ice cream. The chocolate was warm and  concentrated with  a well-balance sweetness and goes very well with the orange  tangy ice cream. The biscuit that remained crispy even when soaked in the chocolate and ice cream. The only thing I need to complain is... It's NOT ENOUGH for me! It's just so nice to eat. Service: -    Friendly and fast. Didn't take long for the dessert to be served. Waitress was very detail. For every dessert, she personally gave the instructions from how we can get a better photo to the steps for eating the dessert. Location : Located at the Rangoon road, it is still a distance from Farrer Park MRT. Look up for the buses which can bring you to

Nano Block - Owl in the making

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Foodie Times: Snacking!! Churros Churros Churros

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Started with my craving for churros.. It was difficult to find in the past and I could only find them at selected cinema popcorn store. It seems to be in trend now! So here I come... Churros 101  (The 2 images on the right side from the top of the picture) - Cream Cheese Churro - Dark Chocolate Churro Taste:  4.5 out of 5.  - Cinnamon Churros : Realized there was a difference in length (it was longer than the churros with fillings). Better to have a drink to go along for this. It made me felt thirsty because of the sweetness and the oil/heat. Texture is a bit overcooked (quite dark color) -  Dark Chocolate Churro & Cream Cheese Churros :  My last purchase for the Dark Chocolate Churros was a disappointing less than 20cm in  length.  Not sure if it's supposed to be that length or I was shortchanged. The first time I tried the same thing, it was way LONGER. Anyway, I still recommend to go for the churros with fillings. Better in taste and keep you goi

Easy Ice Cream

Following the recipe from here Ingredients 2 cups Whole Cream or Heavy Whipping cream (16 fl oz) 1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk (about 14 oz) Steps 1. Blend everything together for around 4 minutes till mixture is thick and creamy. 2. Place in freezer container and refrigerate as desire. Optional For flavors, add in your desired toppings before step 2 and mixed well. For Biscuits Flavors Oreo Flavor 1. Crush the desired amount (maybe 8 Oreo for every 1/3 portion of the mixture. DON'T make it too finely crush, try to have it as big chunks of it). 2. Scoop the required mixture amount and fold in the crushed Oreo. For Coffee/Tea Flavors Tea Leaves/Coffee Powder 1. The amount of tea leaves (maybe 2 tablespoons/6 tea bags of tea leaves for every 1/3 portion of the mixture) or a pack of instant coffee powder for every 1/3 portion of the mixture 2. Scoop the required mixture amount and place on a pot. 3. Warm the pot over low heat and when pot is slightly heated, add