Lee Hoo Sim's trip to Edinburgh! Part 2

So after a heavy meal last night, we decided to have a light breakky session in Kilimanjaro.

These 2 latte reminded me of the 2 green latte I had with Hoo in the Machacha cafe. And unlikely the last time I had it, the latte that day was quite good =)

The Kili big breakky

And my favourite, egg benedict!!! yyuuuuummmm!!

After our meal, we decided to conquer Arthur's Seat. It was fairly windy and it was snowing few days back. Thus, the ground was a bit slippery and snow was all around especially at the top of the hill.
That was when Chow became a giant kid and started throwing snowballs around.


Despite bad footwears for the few of us, we manage to reach the top without any casualties!!
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except for Alyssa & I where both of us ggdotcom ourselves at the grassy area........... T_T
and both of us fell at the same spot... 10 sec apart. Chow & Hoo spared no mercy in laughing at me. Such fantastic friends =)

We were all dead tired after the walk. So we decided to have a relax night in by eating at home.
I quickly made some seafood pesto + tomato meat sauce pasta with baked honey mustard salmon.


Then it was movie time!! We had one of the most hilarious movie session ever.
The screening movie was Assassins and Bodyguards. It is supposed to be a serious Hong Kong with references to Sun Yat Sen during the China Revolution era.
But that didn't stop Hoo from her 'Sunsilk', Chow's homoerotic commentS, Ooi's RVA and many more la...

It is a good movie. But our audience made it eveeeeeeen more enjoyable.
BUT!!! the funnnniest part of the whole evening is definitely the youtubing sessions!!
I laughed like a mad fool....

Lee Hoo Sim's visit to Edinburgh 2010! Part 1

Due to the hectic schedules of CNY, exam and my antisocial behavior caused by FFXIII, I have been very slow in blogging.

So I am going to backtrack a blog a bit of what happen roughly 3 weeks ago!!

Lee Hoo Sim came up to Edinburgh during the last week of CNY and for some reason, Nick & I felt that the 1st CNY dinner party was not as well prepared as we hoped it to be. Hence we decided to up our game =)

Both of us decided to cook everything made it presentable and took good picture this time!!

And yes, I even made the origami crane...

Lap cheong omelette by Nick

Steamed chinese cabbage with lap cheong by Nick. The soup base was anchovy+ chicken breast.

Tom Yam Fish by Nick. I dun really like whole fish because of the bones but this seabass is an easy fish to eat and baked in the oven with tom yam is such a nice combination =)

ABC soup (carrots, tomato and onion) by Keng

Dark soy sauce prawn by Keng

My version of sweet 'n' sour pork by Keng. I wanted to finish up the mushroom hence its here =P.

Yee Sang made by Nick & I (mostly Nick.. haha!!)

And then its MAKAN time!!! It is so nice to have friends over for dinner and of course a group picture!!!!

Almost everyone wore red!!! Better luck next time Hoo and Chow!!

Special thanks to Sim and Lee for specially bringing their red clothes!!! =)

Yee Sang 魚生 101

Then on 1st day of CNY, we had a bigger crowd and more food to make and the star dish was the 魚生!
After researching online, I found a few recipes and decided to take bits and pieces of it to make my own 魚生.

The ingredients were:

1. Radish
2. Carrots
3. Lettuce
4. Raw or smoked salmon (be generous!! oh and any fish is fine as long as it is not too pungent)
5. White sesame
6. Roasted and chopped peanuts
7. Plum sauce from Lee Kum Kei
8. Grapefruit
9. Longan (tin can)
10. Japanese rice crackers
11. Pringles Wasabi flavor!
12. Lemon
13. Chinese 5 spice powder 五香粉 (this was the missing ingredient as it was sold out in Sainsbury!)
    

As you can see, I made the recipe to suit my own taste bud. You can improvise the flavor to your own liking.
The main points are 'sweet and crunchy'!

1. So the radish, carrot and lettuce are shredded using the vegetable shredder. (depends on the crowd size)
2. Lightly pan fry the white sesame until its brown. (no oil needed)
3. Peel and drain the excessive juice from the grapefruit. If it's too watery, the 魚生 might be too wet and soggy. (we used this as there is no pomelo here)
4. Chopped the longan (this is optional)
5. Sliced the salmon finely (make sure that it is enough for everyone. Don't be kiamsap on the beginning of the year!)
6. The Japanese rice cracker and Pringles are crumbed into tiny pieces. (we used this for the crunchy factor. Substitute for prawn crackers)
7. Once all this is done, get a nice big, wide plate and arrange the radish, carrot and lettuce as the base.
8. Then put the grapefruit and longan around the vegetables. The salmon must be in the center. Squeeze the lemon on to the salmon.
9. Lastly, sprinkle the crumbed rice crackers and Pringles, give a pinch of Chinese 5 spice and pour the plum sauce all around the 魚生. While doing this, remember to say auspicious greetings!
10. It should be like this now.
    
11. Then, everyone with their chopsticks and "lou" it all the way!!!

Oh and the answer to the sculptor was Christmas pudding....

恭喜發財 2010！

Happy Chinese New Year 2010!

恭喜發財。
新年快樂。
吉祥如意。
身體健康。
年年有餘。
馬到功成。
出入平安。
事事順利。
生意興隆。
龍馬精神。
步步高升。
心想事成。
學業進步。

It was a great celebration here in Edinburgh.
Amongst close friends.
Good food.
PS3. (the girls went wild on Street Fighter 4)
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For the CNY eve, we made a simple steamboat dinner with my housemates and Brown St peeps.


Sarah brought her Cranium and we had a go with it.
It is fun but somehow I feel too much thinking involved.
This reminded me of my 2009 CNY.
BBQ+IMU ppl (This time involving MARCUS CHOW!)+Pictionary.
That was crazy. haha.


This is the sculptor that Marc C made during one of the Cranium's task and I had to guess it.

Hint : things
I will reveal the answer on my next post. A word of advice, Marc C's artistic expression is alienistic.

My housemates and I..

This is a typical conversation in the kitchen with my housemates.

Keng : Chow, go cut the lettuces. (in the politest tone ever~)
Marc : Sir Yes Sir. *chop chop chop*
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After a while,
Keng : Chow! Whats that?!
Marc : U asked me to cut it what?!
Nick : Err.. The lettuce is a bit..black hor...
Marc: SEEE!! I TOLD U, IT EXPIRED ON 29TH OF JAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (This happened yesterday) SEE ME NO UP LA! DONT TRUST ME NOW LAAAAA!!!!

Keng : Hmmm.. then how oh.. ok lets put some mixed veg
Nick : NOOOOOOOOO! I HATE mixed veg!!!!

Keng: Hmmm... ok.. lets put some green pea la.. Nick u got some right?
Nick : Yea
Marc : NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! DONT PUT GREEN PEA! DONT PUT GREEN PEA!!!
Keng : Y? U dont like , isit?
Marc: Yes... i hate green pea...

Nick : Then ok.. i will put in corn la...
Marc : NOOOOOOOOOOO!! I hate corn too...
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Marc's expression is the funniest thing ever la..

I pity my neighbours.

Yuummmmmm... Deep fried eel.. =)

Gaysian?!?!?!?!

A friend just told me that he was nicknamed as Gaysian on the first day of class....

cool-nya

angmouHolic..

Last week was Princess N's birthday and after dinner, we went to have some drinks in Hard Rock.
At 1st, HRH (Her Royal Highness) did not want to drink alcohol because it will irritate his throat and blah blah ... ~meow~
And then after a few of us drank a few shots, he joined in.

All I can say is... alcohol virgin is always most dangerous kind...

Well, it was around 12.15am. We wanted to order some more but Roxanne (the albino skin+blonde hair barmaid) told us that they are closed. In fact, they were not. She was still selling alcohol to this angmou couple whom just walked in 5 min after my order request.
I am not usually the sensitive kind that like to throw the racist card all the time but her actions gave me no other explanation.
For one, she was not the friendliest barmaid there and she only smiles to the angmous.

I know I should not take one bamboo, kill the whole boat of people (一竹篙打死一船人）but the incidents have been accumulating.

I was not angry or anything but it just strengthen my belief of going back to Asia. And for some reason, the only movie that came to my mind was the Bruce Lee during the scene where he smashed the signboard which said "No dogs and Chinese allowed".

Then I was talking to a few friends and saying why do angmou 'look down' upon Asians in their country but when angmou goes to Asia, they are being worshipped?

"The feeling of western supremacy"

"Asians have better customer service!"

"angmouholic?"




Duck confit burger from Hand burger in Singapore. It is very nice. But for the side dish, I advised to go for the fries and not the weird tomato with injected coleslaw in it!