JI DAN MIAN BAO! :)

Honours :D

2007-04-20T08:59:00.000-07:00

Anglican High School, Gold with Honours. :)

Thank you jas for all the practice times, the nice rushing down to eat waffle times, the endless chatterings through those unbearable hours and all the nice meal times.

Guitar practices are no more, but I'll miss those pracs and the fun pick-throwing and many other incidents as well. Love you loads! <3

Let's go for Gelare more often. :D

'Pizza'

2007-03-20T06:27:00.000-07:00

JIAYING HERE!

Presenting to you..

CHEAT PIZZA!

Craving for a pizza yet lazy/too poor/impatient to walk to the nearest Pizza hut to get one? Fret not! Try out mummy's ‘cheat pizza’ 'recipe'! It’s a healthier alternative and yet packs fun and flavor in!

Pizza Base: Sandwich bread with spaghetti sauce
Filling: Anything you like!

1. Using a rolling pin, flatten the piece of bread according to your preference of the thickness of crust.
2. Spread a layer of spaghetti sauce on it.
3. Spread ingredients of choice.
4. Top it with a generous serving of mozzarella cheese.
5. Sprinkle some mixed herbs on it! (optional)
6. Toast it in the oven until cheese melts.
7. Serve and eat while it’s warm!

Suggestions for toppings:
- Ham
- Green Pepper
- Pineapple
- Button Mushrooms
- Tuna
- BBQ Pork/Bak kwa
- Pork/Chicken Floss

BBQ Pork on pizza is damm good!

WAFFLES. My ultimate comfort food. <3

BIG DONUT!

2007-03-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

JIAYING HERE! One fine morning.. there was nothing to do except homework.. So..
Of course the girl decided to..

baked something instead!

Wahaha.. so i went around looking for recipes to try out.. and as i've never baked a sucessful cake in my life, i decided to try out the most basic and mummy's favourite marble cake! It was a quick bake.. but didn't turn out as expected.. :(

Firstly, i think i overbaked it.. the crust looks too hard and dry. Secondly, as there was no butter at home, i used planta instead! Taste so weird! :X

Well.. it was finished up all the same, but i am not satisfied! I want to try it again soon.. But it was good that at least it didnt turn out with a super dense kueh texture.. It's like pund cake texture, but i prefer it less dense though~

Oh well!

Marshmellow Love!

2007-03-03T05:57:00.000-08:00

Don't know what to do with marshmellows? Fret not! You can make:

Rocky Road! Just bake some brownies(not fully), take it out of the oven, line some marshmellows and chocolate chips on it and watch it spreads into fluffy clouds of sweetness!

The only hassle is cutting up the marshmellows though~ it's really sticky! Be careful not to let the marhmellows become burnt! Hee~ but burnt marshmellows are yummier. It takes some skills~

Bet you're drooling at the photo already! Sadly, that's not what we baked! :p Here's what happen when you don't have enough skills and don't want the brownie too sweet...

Though it didn't turn out as expected, it was good! We had fun baking it, great care and effort was put in.. nothing beats homebaked! :) :)

Great supper, great company, great TV~

However.. if that is too complicated, we have something easier but equally yummy!

BAKED/TOASTED MARSHMELLOWS with a chocolate at the centre!

Do NOT, and i repeat, DO NOT JUDGE IT BY HOW IT LOOKS!! We got a big shock when it's done baking too.. it expanded to twice it's size.. :p

Simply stuff a chocolate into the centre of the marshmellow, toast it in the oven till it browns!

Heavenly, warm gooey sweetness enclosed with a caramelish crispy outer layer~ not forgetting the comforting hot chocolate in the centre which adds to the taste!

Life's simple pleasures~

Homemade Pizza!

2007-03-03T05:47:00.000-08:00

Slept over at jul's house some time ago, and was treated to a fun morning of pizza making with high grade cheese from holland and free pizza aroma! This marks my first pizza of the year! (:

It's surprising easy, and you'll be able to make the crust as thin as you like! Plus you can add anything to it from mushrooms to BBQ pork or even pork floss! Get creative!

For this pizza we had spagetti sauce, lots of cheese, mushrooms, green pepper and tomato, sausages, BBQ pork, herbs..

Heh~ Here's the recipe! Do try it out~~~~

For 2-3 Servings (according to preferance of thickness of crust):

Ingredients A (Mix well)
350g Plain Flour
Pinch of Salt

Ingredients B (Mix well)
200ml Low Fat Milk
1 tsp (level) Dry Yeast
1 tsp Sugar

1. Pour B into A and knead well into a dough. (20 mins)
2. Leave dough to rest for about 2 hours in container (preferably air-tight) to ferment.
3. Grease baking tin with butter.
4. Spread dough over baking tin according to preferance of thickness.
5. Use a fork to poke the dough. Let the dough breathe! :D
6. Bake 5 mins, 200degC. (Dough does not turn brown!)
7. Spread ingredients across the dough. (spaghetti sauce, veggie, meat, mushrooms, cheese etc.)8. Put into the oven again, bake 10 mins at 250degC.
9. Eat while it's hot!

By the way, the pizza was shared between the two of us. :D

A Valentine's Day Treat

2007-02-16T01:16:00.000-08:00

(rants: blogger sucks! xanga's photomanager is the best. *thumbsup*)

Alright! So this year I had a lonely Valentine's Day, it was just me alone at home with my piano, Physics textbook and Emaths notes. :(
Not very ideal I would say, would rather be having a hot Spanish date.

My mummy was out, and my brother went to the movies (I wonder if it was with his date?!) and I was left alone at home and without any dinner. So I decided to venture into the kitchen and cook myself some random stuff to eat!

So I ransacked my kitchen and the refridgerator before I found my lovely packet of Orient's INSTANT UDON!

YES it looks really lovely right? When I was at NTUC it just lured me to it and I knew I had to buy it to try it.

It reads:
UDON
Fresh Japanese Noodle

Cold and hard noodles, pressed together.

Cooking in the water, with it's sachet's contents giving it the Miso flavour.

Sprinkled with some fried spring onion and silverfish...

Served.

The next Valentine's day I want to be cooking for my hot boy. :)

Remedy Tip

2007-01-26T02:52:00.000-08:00

What's better than to indulge in ice-cream on a frustrating and seemingly sad day?

Even if it's just a measly block of $1 Ripple Ice-Cream from the aged uncle who rides his motorcycle, parking at the school gates, with the signature blue umbrella shielding him from the sun and rain... I don't think any Haagen Dazs $4.50 per scoop ice cream cone could beat it. :)

The sweet pink strawberry tasted, along with the rich milky vanila - it's one of the best combinations. And IMO, the best remedy for the down and depressed.

Just indulge.

Chong Pang Nasi Lemak!!

2007-01-01T18:40:00.000-08:00

NSF in mandai area cant live w/o it.

Top: Miss Egg, Mr Fish cutlet, Mr Chicken Wing, Mdm Otah
Bottom: Miss Thumb :X, Mohammad Nasi, Mdm Chilli
Not in picture: Mr Ikan billies, Miss Peanuts

passion

2006-12-30T00:01:00.000-08:00

on Thursday i went for dinner at:

well i think Subway is cool because of their 4-step easy guide to ordering.
Step 1: you select the kind of bread you want out of 4 kinds and the guy spreads the main ingredient on it.
Step 2: you choose what toppings you want like veggies, cheese (free) or bacon, ham(pay) etc.
Step 3: choose the sauce that you want, eg: mayo, sweet onion yada yada.
Step 4 (optional): you might want to add $2, $2.60 or $3.20 to get a meal. it comprises of a drink(of different sizes) and a cookie or two or some other snack.

and their cookie was good.

i ordered Parmesan Oregano(?) bread with tuna spread, cheese and mayo sauce. i did get a chocolate chip cookie for $2 and drinks that could be mixed like the 7-11 Big Gulp kind. it was quite good and yummy, but i think it was too expensive as my total meal cost $5.95. actually it's pretty reasonable but not for a budget person like me. plus i'm not a veggie person so i didn't get any veggie on it, making the money less worth it.
for people who love veggies like my friend who ordered all the different kinds, i guess it was worth it.

tip: if you're buying, you might want to add $3 so the bread becomes 12-inches long instead of the usual 6-inch bread. if you're going for the same filling, you can share with a friend to reduce cost. :)

and here's an introductory to one of the good waffle places, a guitar-break treat.

this is the picture of the nice uncle at Jia Le Bakery near Blk 85 Fengshan Food Centre in Bedok. the shop tenders are very nice people, who don't mind you paying less if you don't have enough money! for eg, i didn't have enough coins to pay for my $1.30 waffle, as i had only $1.10. i was prepared to take out my $2 note but the uncle kindly told me it was okay. and this happened before on many occassions, and the uncle and the auntie are always quick to tell you that it was okay if you didn't have enough to pay them the full amount.

because of that, i'll patronise them often and always give them the full amount now! :)

furthermore, their waffles are really yummy.

not the usual green-toned bakery waffle, this waffle is really crispy and has a very nice smell! the ends are especially crunchy and the waffle is good, although that day it tasted a tad bit undercooked to me.
the cheese waffle i ordered is one of the best too because they don't do it the cheapskate way by just placing a square piece of cheese. instead, they use the cheese brand with the red cow's face on it (the one in the triangle shape, made in France) and spread it out evenly across the waffle before serving.
which makes it taste extra good. the blueberry sauce is good too, very sweet and complements the taste of the waffle well.

well that night my parents came home with sth that surprised me pleasantly.

the donut factory! i opened it to find...

what else, but colourful donuts! and they ~~look~~ taste real yummy too! some flavours are a bit too sweet for my liking, but donuts are wonderful and they are good enough.
but somehow i still prefer conventional donuts, just bread with sugar.

sometimes life tastes the best when it's simplest. :)

Sweet sweet Xmas

2006-12-26T04:11:00.000-08:00

Here's my christmas present to my family! :

Although it doesn't look very appetitizing.. everyone said that it was nice! Not too sweet too~ Going to try other versions of it next time.. should've made the biscuit crust thicker though~

Gingerbread house made from pieces of gingerbread bought from Ikea.. put together by me and my brother~ (: decoration by the kids~ Spot the Santa farting marshmallow on the chimmy.. and the pocky the house vomitted?

Oreo cheesecake~ too rich.

Pretty log cake! Just a simple one though~

Agar Agar!

Merry Christmas

2006-12-25T07:17:00.000-08:00

oh crap the picture quality sucks LOL.

anyway, Merry Christmas to all the wanderful readers out there!
may your Christmas be blessed&joyful as we celebrate the birthday of the King of Kings!

and to my dearest&most treasured co-owner of this blog:
thank you so much for being my friend all these years! i really really pray that your Christmas and your whole 2007 will be good and happy, and most importantly that you will be happy! if there's anything (which hopefully there won't be!) just know that i'll always be here for you, you know you can always talk to me! and also that there's a God who's bigger than all your troubles who loves you more than anyone ever could! :)

Blessed Christmas, one and all, especially to my dearest and my boy.

ps: no food pics of my wonderful sushi feasting, but i figured he would be yummy enough. :D

Supper

2006-12-24T19:03:00.000-08:00

To me, supper is like meal to compensate for the loss of breakfast, if you skip through it. :p

Chicken wrap

Egg Pratas

Instant Laksa

Now, tell me which you prefer! :p

Credits to Mr Burntbread
*laughs*

Breakfast!

2006-12-21T03:06:00.000-08:00

Breakfast is
something i look forward to every night before i sleep,
the meal i never skipped,
and my favourite meal of the day~

Let's talk about some of my breakfast staples! (Not in any order)

1. Oatmeal!

Breakfast staple before school of oatmeal with milk(MUST!), raisins, sugar and the occasional strawberries.

2. Masala Thosai!

Thosai is kind of like indian crepe. It's supposed to be thin and crispy, and a little little bit sour, made from lentils and rice blended with water and left to ferment~ So if you ate one that's thick, chewy and taste like flour, it's probably not the traditional thosai. :/ Masala thosai is thosai stuffed with mainly mashy potatoes with some other spices and veggy like onions, cabbage and green chilli! Thosais are supposed to be served with 3 kinds of curries, i love the white one! Always request for more~ hee~

3. Mr Bean!
I love pancakes from Mr Bean! My favourite is red bean or cheese! They use Laughing Cow brand cheese, which is like perfect match with the soft pancake with abit of crispy skin for some reason!

4. Yong Tau Fu!

Love the stall at Bedok Interchange. Only opened in mornings though~ They stuff their own ingredients and the soup tastes wonderfully home-made. 20cents a piece!

Others are waffles(red bean or peanut butter) and breads~ But i often eat them out of breakfast times though.
WAFFLES ARE LOVE! :D

http://www.rl-waffle.co.jp/ <- someone bring me there!

LOVE

2006-12-19T04:33:00.000-08:00

JAS! i finally ate my 333 coffee shop Carrot Cake today! hehehe.
a redundant but memorable post, because after a month of craving i've eaten it.

muhahahhaha.

Hokkien Mee

2006-12-17T04:39:00.000-08:00

Someone just sent this to me virtually! Hokkien mee with bamboo leaf! (Can't see the leaf here) :p Plus limes and a tea egg!

Anyone knows whether the bamboo leaf does anything to make it taste better?

福建面わおいしです！

Yu Tou Lu (Fish steamboat?)

2006-12-17T03:55:00.000-08:00

What's nice on a rainy day after swimming in the rain? :D

STEAMBOAT!!

Having had my first steamboat sampling a few weeks ago, i'm all ready for the second time today when papa offered to treat us to dinner before my brother leaves for camp.

However, what we got for $27 was a few pieces of fish(i only ate 2 miserable pieces!), a few pieces of cabbage, 5 cubes of yam and miserable strands of seaweed. I doubt there was even one whole fish inside. :/ Luckily, the soup was quite good. Plus the belacan. Chilli lover. :D

Next up we had another dish, tofu with minced pork, which isn't that bad, although it's easy to duplicate. :p

Although a little too bland, it's soft and silky, and the outer layer was abit crispy as well. The pork texture was weird though~

Ah! The rice was pretty good as well.

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Dad says that he'll bring us to steamboat buffet next time, hope it's true. :X

Any recommendations?

Cze Char
Blk 515
Bedok North Ave 2

random~

2006-12-15T06:00:00.000-08:00

wow our site is getting a lot of hits. :D
(or is it us "hitting" ourselves? LOL)

meanwhile to keep you readers entertained...

yummiest and colourful uncooked pasta! i regret not buying them in Italy to try them out! is there anyplace in Singapore to get such colourful pasta? :]

Lei Cha @ Vivocity

2006-12-14T23:58:00.000-08:00

'Vivocity? What's that?'
'It's the big big mall that just opened not long ago!! You don't know meh?'
'Ohh you mean the IKEA at Tampines?'
'Noo! The Yi Feng Cheng la!'
'Huh?'

Having heard that, i knew that i have to bring my mum there. :p

We headed to the Food Republic @ Vivocity for our lunch after my dental appointment at Outram. Wow! It totally amazes me the moment i stepped into that place. It was really pleasing to the eyes with the kampong-style decorations. My mum told me that the doors used for decoration are those that they used to have in the past. Soon she started telling me all sorts of stories from the past, like how they're poor and only have dim lights, and how dim lights became the fashion now as it seems romantic. Wahaha~

Being a hakka and a lover of the thunder tea my aunt makes, my mum and me decided to try this out.

Basically thunder tea is lots of veggy mixed together with rice and a green tea soup which you soak everything in.

There's long beans, cabbage, carrots and some other greens, plus anchovies and peanuts which gives it a tasty crunch. With brown rice, it's kind of like.. damm healthy fried rice. ;p

The soup/tea/broth was alright. But it doesn't taste really authuentic. My aunt does it better. ;p Was rather bland in my opinion, and i think i tasted a hint of wasabi in there? My mum agreed that aunt makes better 'tea'. :D She hates wasabi by the way~

I wonder how the white rice version tasted like. The last time i ate at my aunt's she flavoured/ cooked the rice with shrimps and stuff, yummy.

:) Well, try it and tell me what you think.

Ke Jia Lei Cha (Hakka Thunder Tea)
Vivocity
Food Republic (Level 4)

Childhood Memories

2006-12-14T03:58:00.000-08:00

Having read jul's previous post, you must be wondering how all those gems look like. To satisfy your craving, let me show it to you~ look to your left! :D

First on the list is the ever so wonderful Egg Bread, housed between hamburger breads aka the star of this blog. Imagine a warm sunny side up egg smiling at you, urging with it's fantastic aroma.. closer, closer until you're lips' touching it..... and CHOMP, you bite into the wonderful wonderful thing and feel the warm creamy yolk oozing out.. yummy!

Having virtually tasted the main course.. now it's time to move on to desserts! Next up is jas' favourite Yam ice cream on the Rainbow Bread that kids love! Who cares about artificial colourings and stuff, eat up! Yam is love!

To us girls, desserts are the best part of the meal, so why not go for seconds? :D It's not fair to taste jas' favourite but not go for jul's - Chocolate ice cream on Rainbow Bread! Rich and surprisely cooling chocolate ice cream with multi coloured bread, ~~full of nutrients isn't it~~! :D :D :D

Wahahaa, enough of my nonsense! (: Well, me and jul noticed that we have the underlying foodie characteristic in us since primary school! Isn't that cool~ While talking about our childhood food memories, we had the fantastic idea of another joint blog between us, and ta-da, this is what we came up with! Don't hesitate to leave us your comments, be it on improvements or any recommendations to makan places.. etc etc~

Well, those foodstuff may not seem to be very special, unique, worth queuing, or award-winning to you people, but i guess food eaten with people you love, really does seems to be special and memorable, as it's one of the things that bond us together. (no no i'm straight!)

Enjoy!

Ji dan mian bao
FENGSHAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
Canteen stall ?? 2003
307 Bedok North Road
Singapore 469680

the first post :D

2006-12-14T03:31:00.000-08:00

while jas is busy eating and jul cannot code layouts, i shall sit here and blog - contributing to the first constructive entry of this wonderful site.

let me tell you about... ji dan mian bao.

i still remember my first bite. ~~(no not really)~~
when you bite in the egg wrapped in bread and the egg yolk flows out of the egg and on to the bread, then you smile as you taste it.

Fengshan's Ji Dan Mian Bao, they were the best and unbeatable. :D
it's just egg with bread, but somehow no other can even equal to such a taste.

probably it's because of the memories it brings back. eagerly looking forward to each reccess to grab our daily must-haves, before heading out for our "Daily Walk" around the school to snack on yummy wheel biscuits. running towards our "Homeless Habitat" at the back of the school canteen, hiding in a corner enjoying the little aircon seeping out from the Music Room. for lunch, we eat Ji Dan Mian Bao as we wait for Higher Chinese lessons to start (or school to start after Higher Chinese lessons). running up the spiral staircase in a bid to get a good seat and to win the teacher who takes the lift up, our dear Ji Dan Mian Bao has been a big part of all these.

who would have known that 3 years after graduation, and moving into our 4th, we would so dearly miss the little egg-bread sitting inconspicuously in the corner of that little metal box to keep the food warm in a large canteen? i miss a lot of things in the school, so many special memories and friends those years have given me, and food like these give me a special taste of those days. i can still remember how the macaroni soup and the mifen tang tastes like, in it's bright orange bowl. or how i didn't really like the red bowl auntie and the hor fun but ate it anyway. or the nice purple plates with chicken rice - or rather rice with shredded chicken soaked in chicken soup. :P

and as you read all these you would know that i'm jul, or Julia. check out my profile at the sidebar, but there isn't much.
just know that i love Dongwan, and that i'm hungry, and that i'm going to eat now.

till the next time love:)