Winter Solstice 2013

The Dōngzhì Festival or Winter Solstice Festival (Chinese: 冬至; pinyin: Dōngzhì; literally "the Arrival of Winter") is one of the most important festivals celebrated by theChinese and other East Asians during theDongzhi solar term (winter solstice) on or around December 22 (according to East Asia time). In 2013, the festival falls on Sunday, December 22.

(Reference from Wikipedia.)

It's the end of the year ! Come on ! TAN YUAN ! Every chinese or asian must try out this nice dessert (like a) . So this morning , i tried out my mother's homemade Tan Yuan. 

My mum made me eat 16 of it because i am turning 16 years old ..... This is kinda of like tradition ? Hahahahha . Don't get it also ! So means if you are 50 years old you are going to take in 50 of it ? ARE YOU KIDDING ME ? Hehehe 

A closer view of the Tan Yuan . 

The flavours are :- 

/ SWEET POTATO

/ORIGINAL

/PUMPKIN 

you can actually make more different type  of it so make it creatively on your own flavours ! It's really easy to make ! 

You'll just need 

- A packet of Glutinous rice Flour 

- some warm water 

That's all ! Then you 'll have to roll and roll till look roundy shape ! But you can also do more shapes like this 

Isn't this amazing ? It is made into the shape of the water-lily . It is made by one of the Aunties that i met at the temple . So i took picture of it . It's easy so just shape it to your own shape ! 

I would like wish everyone HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE :) 

Something special

Sharing to you all about my day at the temple . I have been helping out my temple mates in doing stuffs to prepare for the special occasion as the winter solstice is tomorrow . I was there around 11 or 11.30 . Then i started off helping my friend in her cooking in the temple ! 

I have been packaging this whole thing since the last few days..

The plate is really nice because it is in lily-shaped .

This is mee hoon with the dried dates . 

It's so beautiful isn't it ! 

All of this are vegetarian food . Everyone should try it out .

We ended of with decorating it with a flower made of glutinous rice . 

Let the light glow and shine ! 

I would like to wish everyone here HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE ! Enjoy eating Tan Yuan with your family which i will be posting it up tomorrow xxx

5th Kuching 50th Anniversary Scout Dinner

Hi , going to blog about my dinner @ Dewan Masyarakat !  This dinner is held in conjunction of the 5th Kuching ( Kuching High) Scout 50th Anniversary Dinner . 

This is the ticket as you can see above . I was representing my school for the dinner ( 2nd Kuching) -SPONSERED . The ticket cost RM 45 and it the whole function start at 7.15 pm as the VVIP guest arrives . 

It started off with speeches . Then some presentations ! 

5th Kuching Scout Band 

This is part of the meal and dishes served ! Sorry that i couldn't post all the food served as i didn't have time to take pics ! 

This is my TEACHER ! Hahhaha ! He won the lucky draw ! He's soo luckyyyyyy ! 

My Junior , Malcom Yap 

Rover Tan ! 

ROVER SIM ! 

Thank you for the sponser ticket and i enjoyed the night ! The performances were awesome especially the band as it's  comes with nice tunes :) thank you

PMR RESULT 2013

This year , the best present from God to me is , STRAIGHT A in PMR ! Thanks for all the support and advise that my parents, teachers, friends, relatives gave to me ! It made me feel stronger ! Thank you ! ❤️ GLORYY ! 

Ice-cream

Raining dayy ! It's a cold day here in Kuching ! It have always been raining these few days because it's year-end raining season! So i came up with an idea! Kuching people have been crazy about durians nowadays since it have become our trend here in Sarawak, especially Kuching! We can get durians here at a very very cheap price . But it depends on the person you buy from . 

Tips on good durians ! 

-yellow-skinned

-sweet 

-contains a bit of bitter taste

- meat not too dry and not too soft

But remember not too take too much durians ! It may cause you sore throat if you did not drink plenty of water after that . 

So, my mum came up with this idea to make Durian ice-cream as there are too much durians at my house. My mum used THERMOMIX, the small kitchen which is very famous nowadays around the world. You should get one now ! You can do any types of recipes with thermomix ! 

 

Sorry for the imperfections. 😉 

Closer view of the ice-cream.

You can also decorate your ice-cream with peanuts or others like cashew nuts, almond nuts . 

It's a cold day ! So make it colder by making an ice-cream on your own. 

Dumplings

Chinese dumpling. (Guo-Tie) 

Guotie (simplified Chinese: 锅贴; traditional Chinese: 鍋貼; pinyin: guōtiē; literally "pot stick") is pan-fried jiaozi, also known as potstickers in North America (a direct character translation), or yaki-gyoza in Japan. They are a Northern Chinese style dumpling popular as a street food, appetizer, or side order in Chinese. This dish is sometimes served on adim sum menu, but may be offered independently. The filling for this dish usually containspork (sometimes chicken, or beef in Muslim areas), cabbage (or Chinese cabbage and sometimes spinach), scallions (spring or green onions), ginger, Chinese rice wine or cooking wine, and sesame seed oil. 

(Reference from Wikipedia) -Introduction

This is made by my aunt, it consists of minced meat . 

 

Guo tie must be served hot! It is because you can taste the beauty of the traditional dumpling! 

DEEP FRIED WANTAN 

consists of minced meat

-crispy! 

This dumplings can be made easily if you have the passion towards it. Don't worry it only takes maybe 30 mins to prepare it ! The skin can be bought easily outside at supermarkets for convenient! 

So TRY IT OUT !  

Deserts

After attending the event in Cityone ( Puma Grand Opening) , we went for food-hunting ! 

Then we came upon this shop ! 

SHILLIN Taiwanese food

Order the taiwanese XXXL Crispy Chicken for RM 6.50 

This shop is very special for this Crisy Chicken ! 

Next we went to search for desert ! 

EASY DRINK EASY GO ! 

Red bean ( close view ) 

Glass Jelly 

I've tried this ! It's worth it ! Try it! 

I ordered this and got this for free (scroll down) 

You should try out rhis combo

Order :- 

Soya bean (as the ice base) 

Mango Pudding

Glass Jelly 

This is the coconut base, green bean, and ice cream ! 

It's only for RM 4.50 ! 

Big portion ! 

It's worth it ! 

It's new Taiwanese Shop opened at the the new side of the mall in Cityone ! Didn't get to tried it ! But it should look good ! :) will be posting more pictures up !