Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Want to jet to your own island and build your own hotels? Hotel Tycoon has everything you need – just be the last one left in the game! Hotel Tycoon, first published as Hotels in the 1970s, has now been refreshed so you can re-live the classic 3 dimensional board game. This is suitable for age 8 onwards and for 2 to 4 players. This game would take at least 40 minutes or more to play.
Last year when I went back to Singapore to visit, I bought a few mooncake moulds and now it is the time of the year to make it! As I don’t have the main ingredients to make mooncake, I decided to make piglets instead. For my previous mooncake bakes, do check out my swiss roll snow skin mooncake and colourful snow skin mooncake.
Piglet or 豬仔餅 has always been my favourite snack to eat during the mooncake festival. But my mum always refused to buy them for me as they are not particularly healthy and they are made from leftover pastry for the mooncake. Now I can totally understand what she meant!
Y Fliker are innovative three-wheeled self-propelling scooters that are built for fun for 3 years old to adults! Y Fliker comes in 6 different cool series: Air, Sport, Base, Carver, Junior and Lift.
This stunning red Y Fliker A3 is from the Air series. It is ideal for aged 7 and over with a maximum weight limit of 80 kg. It comes in pink or red.
Elektrokidz are a massive success in the US and now they have landed in the UK! They have made star appearances across the net, on music shows and at celebrity events. They are the first ever music-inspired collectables that dance to the beat of the music you are listening to!
Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Everywhere is a book written by Smriti Prasadam-Halls. It is colourful and beautifully illustrated by Lorena Alvarez. This paperback book is available to buy in good book stores and Amazon from June 2015.
The Tube Heroes are going down a storm in the UK! US toy company Jazwares have bought the world’s biggest digital stars into one heroic platform that includes action figures, plush and role-play items! They are the most powerful and influential self-made online celebrities!
Both Mr K and Ms C are already big fans of DanTDM due to his regular YouTube videos on MineCraft. They watch his videos all the time so they were already aware of this Tube Heroes before me!
They were thrilled when we received this surprise box of Tube Heroes. Inside the box, it comes with a soft and cute plush toy of JeromeASF and a CavemenFilms action figure.
After the long summer break, this week I finally have a bit of time to start baking again! So I decided to bake coffee cupcakes and make use of some mascarpone that had been sitting in my fridge for weeks! This recipe is almost like a Victoria sponge cake recipe. This Coffee & Mascarpone Cupcakes recipe makes 12 cupcakes.
The brand new four-episode collection from Dora and Friends is now available on DVD from 14th September 2015 in good retailers including Amazon. This DVD contains 88 minutes of little Latina heroine Dora as she travels the world with her trusty pals, educating an adoring public by teaching them new languages as she goes.
Did you know that Orchard Toys have just released an updated version of Shopping List and its additional extras packs? This classic game has topped their sales list for over ten years and is their best-selling game of all time.
A huge welcome to Week 38 of the Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party! Just a reminder that this linky will occur every fortnight. Therefore this will be open for two weeks until 2nd October 2015 so you have plenty of time to link with us! This week I am featuring desserts.
Need a helping hand? Why not try out this Lazy Arm to free your hands for doing something else instead? This funky and functionally designed flexible smartphone holder can be clipped onto most surfaces except for anything overly thick like a thick wooden table. It works perfectly on my bedside drawers, kitchen top and desk! I am so pleased that I can watch the video at eye level and free my hands!
If you like remote control robots and insects, you will definitely like Teksta Scorpion! This is an awesome wireless interactive robotic toy! Both of my children were thrilled and can’t wait to get another scorpion to join in the battle!
When I was young, I only had one chance to get hands-on in school to make a simple battery circuit to power a light bulb. Our school did very minimal technology projects with us and both my parents were not academically well-educated so we never had a chance to explore technology and science at home either. I am so glad that my parents pushed me very hard to learn well in school though, so that now I can help my children spark their creative imagination using hands-on technology.
We had previously made our own buzz wire game and also a simple circuit, thanks to the help of an engineer friend. However, some of these items were not very well protected which could have been hazardous for the children, or even me!
In my earlier posts, I mentioned that we went to the Moor Valley Country Park and Southbourne beach during the summer holidays. Another place we went to was the RockReef Activity Centre on Bournemouth Pier.
Both my children are into rock climbing and we haven’t had much opportunity to take them. Whilst on holiday, we came across RockReef Activity Centre on Bournemouth Pier. We did a bit of research while eating our lunch and phoned them as their website didn’t give us enough information about the activities before we booked it online (small saving if booking online).
This September, our favourite bread, Warburtons are working along with Asda to support Breast Cancer Awareness. Asda’s Tickled Pink campaign has launched a range of gorgeous pink products to help the incredible work of Breast Cancer Now and Breast Cancer Care. From lovely pink slippers that keep your feet warm to sweet raspberry shower & bath gel!
