Category: Food

• Fruit Loops

  05.20.09 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

  Full week of late night meetings and I am having fruit loops for supper, instead of breakfast. I always like to eat fruit loops. Yeah I know it is all coloring. I have to eat it with milk. I was afraid of my children were sensitive to the coloring that makes me hold back on purchasing a box of fruit loops.

  In the end, I could not resist any longer. Fortunate for me, they ate some but didn’t have any problem. Yeah for me!!

  And here is my supper….

  
  
  

• Pig Out Session

  03.06.09 |Food, Work| Permalink | Comments Off on Pig Out Session

  I had another great departmental dinner today because my big boss visited us. Of coz when he comes, we usually ask him to treat us a good meal. It is a good to build relationship among the team. He is a great joker because he tells great stories that made us laugh. It was a very good dinner indeed.

  At least we have fun despite all the sad news about economy crisis, retrenchment and pay cut. Free dinner is always a good way to help boost up the morale.

  We went to Spice Market Rasa Sayang for buffet dinner.

  
  
  

• Roti Tisu

  02.21.09 |Food, Penang| Permalink | Comments Off on Roti Tisu

  I just discovered this in one of the mamak store in Penang called Roti Tisu aka Tissue Bread. It is made from the same dough as Roti Canai but finer. Roti Tisu is crispy with hot margarine and sugar coated on it. It is usually served in a con shape.

  
  

  
  

  Have you seen such a big roti tisu? Oh my children love this! You have to try it if you are at the mamak store. Simply delicious.

• What Is This Fruit?

  02.05.09 |Food| Permalink | 2 Comments

  Yesteday I saw this fruit at the fruit store. Out of curiosity, I bought it to try. It can be eaten just like that with 1 seed in the core. It taste a little like jambu but it has a fragrant in it. I believed it can go well with the rojak sauce. If anyone of you knows the name of the fruit, do tell me.

  
  
  

• Beef Tripe Noodle

  01.26.09 |Food, Travel| Permalink | Comments Off on Beef Tripe Noodle

  I miss this! If you are in Hong Kong, you must try the Beef Tripe Noodle. It is very tasty and the noodle is superb. It is very different from the Vietnamese style. The soup is made tasty with boiling the beef tripe or brisket in it. It is almost like a beef stew.

  One thing that is missing is that the shop does not provide a good chili sauce to go with it. It will be absolutely perfect with chili sauce. I wonder when I can have it again.

  
  
  

• Miss This

  01.19.09 |Food| Permalink | 2 Comments

  I missed the KL “G Cheong Fun”. The way Penang does they “G Cheong Fun” is so different. It took me a long time to get used to the dark prawn paste with the “G Cheong Fun”. The KL style is very different with fish ball, lady finger, brinjal and fried bean curd. Yummy!!!

  I ate that for breakfast almost every week in school. I remember that the store owner always give me extra fish ball. She is a very kind lady. I remembered once I forgot to bring money, she told me to pay her tomorrow. After finishing the “G Cheong Fun”, with the left over sauce, she puts soup on the plate for me. I love sipping the soup. Simply delicious!!!

  
  
  

• Melamine Food Products

  10.27.08 |Food| Permalink | 1 Comment

  After the big sad tragic incident on China milk powder that contain the chemical substance of melamine that cause many children in China sick, now everyone is very concern about their food intake. I am very worried because I heard more products now contain melamine that is harmful to us. How can the food company be so irresponsible and not have the food tested for toxic substances? Even as we speak, there are biscuits that are not melamine free. Worst is government just ban the foods produce but not close down the company.

  I went to the fsq.moh.gov.my and downloaded the spreadsheet which has a list of products that has melamine that is over the acceptable level. In another words, these product can make you sick or put stone in your kidney.

  Here are they, please don’t buy any of these foods. By the way, there is another list in fsq.moh.gov.my that has food list :
  http://fsq.moh.gov.my/uploads/produkmematuhi251008.pdf,
  that is not melamine free but on an acceptable level. Whatever level, I do not want to eat food with melamine in it. I hope government will enforce the food company to label the melamine ingredient in all products.

  Ego White Rabbit Creamy Candy 135 ppm	Vigour 888 Filling Roll 4.71 ppm	Taro Biscuits (Bairong) 75 ppm	Biskut Creamy Chocolate (Dikilangkan oleh Khian Guan 3.66 ppm
  Biskut Lemon Pof 3.7 ppm	Biskut Square Puff 4.36 ppm	Biskut Cocoa Puff 4.91 ppm	Biskut Jagung Puff 6.46 ppm
  Potato Cracker 17 ppm	Biskut Ais Jem 3.33 ppm	Biskut Marie Besar 6.64 ppm	Biskut Campuran 7.99 ppm
  Biskut Family Crackers 7.6 ppm	Tasty Cracker 2.57 ppm	Biskut ABC 12.6 ppm	Zoological Biscuit 5.16 ppm
  Supercrown Cracker 9.11 ppm	Healthy Puff 8.85 ppm	Biskut Sandwich Oren 5.05 ppm	Biskut Mini Puff 22 ppm

  *Note :
  Action Level
  • Makanan Bayi / Baby Food : 1.00 ppm
  • Makanan Lain / Other Food : 2.5 ppm
  ppm= parts per million (mg/kg)

  Stay away from the food above!

• Difficult Fruit To Eat

  10.19.08 |Food| Permalink | 3 Comments

  Do you know what fruit is the most difficult to eat? It is this one:

  
  
  

  Yeap, it is the pomegranate. If you are not careful the juice can stain your shirt or clothes. How do you eat a fruit filled with seed? If you bite onto eat and you probably will get the skin which is bitter. Let me share this method which I discovered.

  First you need to cut the fruit into 2 halves. Take a big bowl so that the seed will not fall all over the place. Take 1 half and use your fingers and break the skin so that the seed fall out onto the bowl. Slowly break the skin and the seed will just fall nicely on the bowl. Do not use a spoon to scoop as the juice will squirt all over.

  When you have all the seed removed, look into the bowl for unwanted skin. You don’t want to chew on those skins as it is bitter. Wash those seeds and you can add a little sugar. Now you can scoop it with your spoon and suck the juice out. Spit out the seed into the garbage can. Need?

• Häagen Dazs Mooncake

  10.12.08 |Food| Permalink | Comments Off on Häagen Dazs Mooncake

  I wanted to review the Häagen Dazs Mooncake but I forgot about it until I saw those pictures in my hard drive. Yeap, I got 2 mooncakes from Häagen Dazs, all because I have vouchers for it. It is very costly too.

  Anyway, I like the chocolate coating plus the creamy ice-cream inside. I didn’t like the mango sorbet that was supposed to be the egg of the mooncake. Somehow they sorbet doesn’t mixed well with the sorbet ice cream. Overall, it was okay but I really wouldn’t get it if it is not free. No doubt the quality of the ice-cream is there.

  If I have more Häagen Dazs vouchers, I probably would try the cake next. Are they good, anyone wished to comment?

  
  
  

• Big Apple Donut Is Here In Penang

  09.27.08 |Food| Permalink | Comments Off on Big Apple Donut Is Here In Penang

  Finally Big Apple is here in Penang at Gurney Plaza. However most of the donut offered today were too choc-ky . And my peanut butter donut is nowhere to be found.

  Well, let’s see whether it will survive in Penang. I didn’t see any queue on a Saturday. Maybe they didn’t do much publicity and I only found out about it when shopping there.

  Now will J.CO come over here too? We will see.