Growing up of Ashley... 8- 9 months old

Big eye with long eye lashes... just like her mommy :)

Mommy like to dress me up like a boy :)

My little devil at home

烧肉

There are whole lots of procedures to make this siu yuk. One of the most important part is to 打针on the skin of the half cook pork.
Marinating the pork.

Drying the pork.

It's done after roasted for almost 1 hour.

Ready to serve! Check it out, the skin is crispy, and the meat is tender... good try :)
Anyway, this is not the first time we are doing. So many try and errors in between.

Painting by numbers

It has been a really busy months after i came back from my Beijing trip. Since i started my new post as a regional role in Nov 1, life been busy and stress. Hence, not much baking activity lately.Somehow, i found something interesting lately. Painting!
It called painting by number. This is equilvalent to 油画, just that i can follow the numbers in the painting and paint by the designated color. Just like below.
These are stuffs for children, but i found it quite interesting.


These are some of my painting. I started off with the smallest painting. I will start with a bigger painting probably end of Dec.
My first attempt on Angry Birds

Snoopy

Winnie the Pooh

北京之游 | Oct 23 - 29, 2011| Part 2

这次北京之旅，我成了朋友的导游..不算一个合格的导游，但起码应该去的地方景点我都带他们去了.
王府井


天坛

前门大街的星巴克

天安门广场

故宫

后海的黄昏

鬼街

万里长城长又长

第一次参观水力方....很漂亮

鸟巢

颐和园 - The Summer Palac ???!!!


和表哥表嫂的聚会

北京之游 | Oct 23 - 29, 2011|

在北京工作时都没有好好的把我所吃的食物拍下来。现在有了Iphone,一切都变得非常方便简单。这次和 Mr.Kuan, Dennis, Pek Kee 去了北京一趟。我把我以前爱吃的食物，通通吃了一遍。以下是其中的一些食物：

麻辣香锅

北京平民早餐 - 饺子，馄饨，鸡蛋汤，豆腐，包子


我的最爱- 辣子鸡

水煮鱼

烤鸡翅

羊蝎子 （这个我不吃，我怕羊的膻味，其他人都说很好吃）

麻辣火锅

锅贴

鼎鼎大名的北京烤鸭


改良版的口水鸡

拍黄瓜

鹿港小镇的客家小炒

酒酿汤圆

麻婆豆腐

Cup with Straw.

I bought a cup with straw for Ashley. The indication wrote, the cup is for 9+ months baby. Ashley is 7 months 2 weeks now. I was thinking, never mind, just give her a try....
To my surprise, very quickly she knows how to suck from the straw. Mother nature!!!! Just have to be patient in the first 10 minutes....

Famous Amos Cookies | 1 Oct, 2011

Last week, all of a sudden, i have a craved for Famous Amos cookies. I was thinking, where can i buy the cookies... i called 2 colleagues and get ask them to buy for me if they happen to go to the shop while they have their lunch. Of course, i did not get to eat it. After work, straight away, i visit a Famous Amos shop near to my house. I am so satisfy at the first bite.... Yummy... However, this cookies is too expensive to eat. 100 gram cost me RM10 something.

Then that night itself, i start looking for the recipe online. And i found it.
Of course, i tried to make it too....

This is the experiment product.

Still have plenty of room for improvement. I sort of know what went wrong. I dont have enough chocolate chips and chocolate bar. Master Chef told me, when baking cookies, we need to use 上下火 plus fan. So the cookies become crispier. Next time, next time i will make a better cookies.

Back to the Basic - White Toast | 2 Oct 2011

I have been stop making bread for sometime. Reason being, bread take longer time to make and the end product was not satisfying most of the time. The bread i made, normally taste soft and good while it is still warm. However, it turn tougher after it was completely cool down. And i can smell the yeast.

This time, Mr Kuan has asked his friend, "Master Chef" to come to our house and teach us make bread. Master Chef opens few bakery shops and it is very well known in KL - 棠记饼家.

He makes it so simple... of course, the end product is satisfying one. Most importantly, i know which part of the process went wrong when i am making my own bread. Guess, coming weekends, will be on Bread, bread bread....

Master Chef and Mr Kuan..



Freshly baked white bread, waiting to cool before it send to my stomach.

Yes, this time the bread taste good and soft. And it did not turn tough after it cool down.


This is what i prepared, lunch for Master Chef. Homemade 板面.