6th Post- Sushi

Whenever you think of Japan, the most common and well known food will remind us about “Sushi”. Sushi comes from Japan and is a vinegared rice topped or mixed with a variety of fresh ingredients, usually fish or seafood. Sushi has become the most famous Japanese dish outside of Japan or even among the Japanese themselves. In Japan, sushi is usually served on special occasions such as a celebration.

During the Edo period, “sushi” is referring to pickled fish preserved in vinegar. Nowadays sushi is defined as a dish containing rice which has been prepared with sushi vinegar. There are many different types of sushi. Some popular or commons are:

Nigiri-sushi

Small rice balls with fish, shellfish, etc. on top. There are numerous varieties of nigirizushi, some of the most common ones are tuna, shrimp, eel, squid, octopus and fried egg.

Maki-zushi

Translated as "roll sushi," sushi rice and seafood or other ingredients are placed on a sheet of seaweed (nori) and rolled into a cylindrical shape on a bamboo mat and then cut into smaller pieces. Sushi rolls prepared "inside out" are very popular outside of Japan, but rarely found in Japan.

Temaki

Sometimes refer to as “hand-roll”. Basically is the same as makizushi, except that the nori seaweed is rolled into a cone-shape with the ingredients placed inside.

Chirashi

Chirashizushi is a dish in which seafood, mushroom and vegetables are being placed on top of sushi rice. It can look like domburi with the difference being that chirashizushi uses sushi rice while domburi uses regular, unseasoned rice.

Inari

Inarizushi is a simple and inexpensive type of sushi. Instead of using the traditional vinegar rice sushi rice is filled into aburaage (deep fried tofu) bags.

Oshizushi

Oshizushi is a pressed sushi from the Kansai Region, a favourite and specialty of Osaka. Oshizushi is pressed sushi, in which the fish is pressed onto the sushi rice in a wooden box and then cut into bite-sized pieces.

5th Post- How to Bake Honey Cornflakes Cookies

Hi again, Today I am going to share about how to bake honey cornflakes cookies. Honey cornflakes cookies are easy to make instead of baking cake or other cookies as it has only few and easy procedures.

Ingredients:
140gm Butter
180gm Honey
100gm Toasted Almond Silvers
280gm Cornflakes
100gm Rice Bubbles
50gm Black Raisins

PROCESS:

1. Firstly, preheat the oven to 170°c. Then Bake the almond silvers for 5 minutes.
2. Then, you can prepare a big bowl and mix cornflakes, rice bubbles, black raisins and toasted almond silvers.
3. After that, you have to cook the butter and honey till boiled. Then you can stir the honey and butter mixture into the cornflakes mixture,(2). Mix together until mix well.
4. Next, use a teaspoon to scoop a little amount of the mixture into small paper cups. Make a few more cups according to self decision. Afterwards, place all the cookies onto the greased baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes till golden brown in a preheated oven at 170°c.
5. Once the cookies are done baking, leave it on the tray to cool and harden. When cool, store it in an airtight container.
So following above is the simple and easy procedure of baking honey cornflakes cookies. If you don’t like some of ingredients listed above, you can try adding some such as chocolate chips, mixed fruits, sesames or peanuts, etc. Moreover, you can add chocolate by cooking it until melt and stir with ingredients if want to bake Chocolate Honey Cornflakes cookies. I hope everyone will like it and can try to bake some for own self or send as a gift to others. It is also an idea to serve the cookies during some special festival or occasions.

4th Post- Tom Yum

Hello everyone, here comes to the fourth post for my blog and I will introduce one of the popular Thai foods. Hope everyone will like it and can try Thai food in further plans! =)

Tom yum is a name for two similar soups originating from Laos and Thailand. The Royal Lao tom yum has included rice in the soup, whereas common Lao and Thai versions do not include rice as an ingredient. However, Lao tom yum is quite unknown outside of Laos, whereas Thai tom yum has become one of the most famous dishes in Thai cuisine. Thai tom yum is widely served in neighboring countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, and other country around the world.

Tom yum is characterized by its different hot and sour flavours with fragrant herbs. The basic soup is made of fresh ingredients such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lime juice, fish sauce and crushed chilli peppers. While, commercial tom yum paste is made by all the herb ingredients fried in oil and flavour as well as other preservative ingredients are added thereafter. The paste is packed in bottle or packaged, and sold around the world. Tom yum flavored with the paste may have different quality that made with fresh herb ingredients.

In Thailand, tom yum soup is usually made with prawns ‘tom yum goong’, chicken ‘tom yum gai’, fish ‘tom yum pla’, or mixed seafood ‘tom yum talay or tom yum po tae’ and mushrooms (straw or oyster mushrooms). In Laos, tom yum is normally made with fish or chicken, however prawns are also available. Often, the soup is topped with sprinkling of fresh chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves.

For the less popular type of tom yum is ‘tom yum nam khon’ , where milk is added to the soup. Tom yum nam khon is almost always made with prawns, whereas chicken is often used in ‘tom kha’. Sometimes Thai chilli jam ‘Nam Prik pao’ is added to the soup to give a bright orange colour and makes the chilli flavor spicier.

3rd Post- How to Bake Carrot Cake

Here comes to the third post and I am going to share the knowledge of baking a carrot cake to everyone, hopefully you will like it and the info I provided will be useful to you. History shows that carrots have been used in sweet cakes since the medieval period. During that time sweeteners were scarce and expensive, while carrots which contain more sugar than any other vegetable besides the sugar beet, were much easier to come by and were used to make sweet desserts.

The carrot cakes became popular in Britain because of rationing during the Second World War. In the early 1960s, Carrot cakes have become common dessert that available in restaurants and cafeterias in the United States.


Ingredients:
180g self raising flour/all-purposed flour
¼ teaspoon soda powder
½ teaspoon baking powder
Half of ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder
Half of ¼ teaspoon salt
100g icing white sugar, 50g brown sugar
3 eggs, separate the egg yolks and egg whites
180ml vegetable oil
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
85g chopped walnut
240g grated carrot

PROCESS:
1. Prepare self raising flour/all-purposed flour 180g.
2. Then, prepare baking powder of ½ teaspoon, soda powder ¼ teaspoons.
3. Prepare cinnamon powder half of ¼ teaspoon, a little bit salt half of a quarter as well.
4. Prepare icing white sugar 100g and brown sugar 50g.
5. Prepare 3 eggs and separate the egg yolks and egg whites. 180ml vegetable oil.
6. Prepare 1 teaspoons of vanilla extract, ½ teaspoon cream of tartar.
7. 85g of walnut. Preheat the walnut in oven to 170’c until the nut yellow/ brown in colour. When walnut is baked, then remove the skin of nut and breaks into small pieces.
8. Prepared carrots and peel it into smallest slices. Remember must squeeze the grated carrot to remove juice.
9. In a bowl, beat egg yolks with electric mixer in a medium speed. Add vanilla extract and follow by vegetable oil. Beat it for few mins.
10. Then add the combine flour and continue to beat until blended in low speed. Add grated carrot and stir together in a low speed.
11. In a large bowl, beat egg whites in high speed and slowly add icing sugar and brown sugar. Add cream of tartar, continue blend for few mins until stiff peak form, for which turn creamy.
12. In same bowl, mix grated carrot batter and lastly add walnut pieces, then mix it gently with spatula until blended.
13. Pour the batter into baking pan. Put into oven for baking at 175’c for around 40 mins.
14. Remove the cake from oven and tested the cake with toothpick, if result comes out is clean mean the cake is done put in one side to let it cool. After cooling, with the using of sharp knife, cut around the cake and remove from pan. Then, serve and enjoy.


As for conclusion, I hope everyone will like to eat carrot cakes as carrot cakes benefit for us, for our health, because carrot is good for vision, our eyes. Other than that, carrot cake can consider a healthy cake that you can serve as diet desserts. This is recommended to diet people especially for females who wish to consume sweet desserts without substances of high fats and calories.

2nd Post- How to bake Cheese Cake

Hello, I am here to introduce of how to bake a cheese cake easily by our own. There is a variety type of cheesecake that you could find in bakery shop, however some types of cheese cake are baked in a complex way. Thus I am here to share the most common and simplest way of baking plain cheese cake. When you have free time, you can bake a cheese cake for own self or sharing with family and friends or beloved one. Before bake the cake, you can go to some grocery shop to purchase ingredients.

Ingredients:

FOR THE CRUST:

1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons granulated sugar

1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons light-brown sugar

FOR THE FILLING:

6 eggs, separated to yolks and whites

1 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese

16 ounces sour cream

1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

2 tablespoons ground cinnamon, for dusting

PROCESS:

1.Firstly, use a food processor to crush whole graham crackers into crumbs (or by using a rolling pin and placing the crackers in a plastic bag). You have to crush 1 1/4 cups of graham cracker crumbs.

2.Then, add the melted butter and sugars and mix well. Press the crumb mixture onto the base and up the sides of the springform pan then chill for 1 hour.

3.Prepare a bowl, beat together 6 egg yolks and 1 cup sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until blended. After that, add the cream cheese, sour cream and vanilla extract to the mixture, and continue beat on medium speed until the mixture is smooth.

4.Prepare another bowl, and then beat together the 6 egg whites with the 1 tablespoon of sugar until the egg whites form stiff. Then, slowly add the egg whites mixture to the cheesecake mixture.

5.Remove the chilled crust from the refrigerator, and then pour the cheesecake mixture into the pan. Use spatula to smooth the top and kindly add some ground cinnamon.

6.Put the cheesecake in a cold oven and then turn on the oven to 300 degrees F. Bake the cake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

7.After baking, turn the oven off and slightly open oven door to leave for cool for 30 minutes. Then you can remove the cake from the oven and allow it to cool completely on a wire rack. Remove the pan sides and refrigerate the cake for about 6 hours or overnight.

Lists of above are the ingredients and process of baking a plain cheese cake, if you wish to make it tastier or nicer you can add some flavouring or some fruits as topping. Toppings recommended are such as blueberry, strawberry, lemon, chocolate, etc. It is a good idea for you to bake a cheese cake as a present when you wish to give a surprise to friends or beloved one.

1st Post- Roast Goose*One of Famous Foods in Hong Kong

Hello everyone, I am here to introduce about one of the famous foods in Hong Kong, Roast goose (燒鵝), ‘siu ngo’in Cantonese. If you are travelling to Hong Kong, you must try to eat roast goose which you may not find in Malaysia.
Roast goose, meat of geese is a dish that you can find in Chinese, Cantonese or European cuisine. In the South of China, roast goose is a kind of “siu mei”, which is roasted meat dishes you can find in Cantonese cuisine. It is made by roasting geese with flavour in a charcoal oven at high temperature. Mostly high quality of roasted geese has crispy skin with juicy and tender meat that makes a delicious dish. While serving the roasted goose, it will taste better to serve with sweet sour sauce that is generally recommended.

While in German, Germans traditionally roasted geese only on specific holidays such as St. Martin's Day. Roasted goose is also a favoured dish eaten on Christmas for which is similar to the turkey in the United Kingdom or the United States. The most common stuffings are apples, sweet chestnuts, prunes and onions. Typical seasonings include salt and pepper, mugwort, or marjoram is added to make the dish. Also red cabbage, Klobe, and gravy are used for dressing up the goose. Another version of roast goose is the Alsatian-style with Bratwurst-stuffing and sauerkraut as garnish.

Typical German Roast goose

Besides Hong Kong, you can also find roast goose in some part the neighboring Guangdong Province of southern China. Mostly roasting restaurants in Hong Kong have serve Roast Goose but for the most famous you can search at Sham Tseng(深井), Yue Kee Roasted Goose Restaurant (裕記燒鵝飯店) Sham Tseng, 9 Sham Hong Road, New Territories (新界深井深康路九号). Moreover, Yung Kee Restaurant (香港鏞記酒家)is also one of the favoured restaurants among tourists which located on Wellington Street in Central, Hong Kong.

Roast goose with Klobe and red cabbage

The price of each whole roast goose is around HKD 300++, which can serve many pax and there are also few options for suitable pax with reasonable price. Eventually, if you are travelling to Hong Kong, it is recommended to try the roast goose as you are hardly or even may not find any of it in Malaysia, though it may cost a bit expensive it is still a worth to try new food.