Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
We were so lucky to have booked a hotel (Ibis Ambassador Myeongdong Hotel) so close to Myeongdong night market! Little did we know at the time of booking that this place was so convenient! It is located in the popular Myeongdong shopping district and is within walking distance of many popular locations, like LOTTE Department Store, LOTTE Young Plaza, Namsan cable car, meeting point for day trips etc. It is near Euljiro 1-ga subway station exit 6.
After hosting my first game – How posh are you, my friends asked me to host another game as they were very keen to play. So this time round, I decided to rename it to the Branded or Non-Branded game.
Last week, I hosted a brand testing game with our close friends and it was so fun and challenging. It was my first time planning this game and it took me a good couple of hours just to research pricing and images, buy items from various supermarkets, create score sheets for everyone and a PowerPoint presentation! This game was inspired by my sister-in-law, as she also hosted a similar game during a Chinese New Year meal earlier this year.
Chimasu box is a monthly subscription box which is filled with snacks from across Asia. We are a big fan of Asian snacks and often buy them from shops in Chinatown. I am so thrilled to know that now Chimasu offers this monthly box to try out the wide variety of snacks!
The new Pulsin Kids’ Fruity Oat bars now contain a third less sugar than the average kids’ fruit snack, which makes Pulsin Kid’s Fruity Oat Bars the perfect tasty wholesome low sugar snack option for lunch boxes and after school snacks. They also contain no nasties and are 100% natural made with real fruit and natural ingredients.
This Ice Cream Magic Tray is another innovative product by the Chillfactor. They are famous for their slushy maker, jelly maker and many more great products. This is suitable for aged three and above. Inside this set, it comes with a plastic tray, ice cream maker tray, small plastic jug, utensils and a small plastic chopping board.
Pulsin’ who are best known for making nutritional bars for adults, are using their expertise to make nutritious products for children. Pulsin’ Kids’ Fruity Oat Bars are the new deliciously wholesome oat bars made with real fruit and natural ingredients. They are tasty and sustaining snacks for lunchboxes, after school or anytime to keep them nourished throughout the day.
Pulsin’ Kids’ Fruity Oat Bars are available in Strawberry, Blackcurrant & Apple and Orange Choc Chip variants. Priced at £2.99 for six 25g bars in a multipack and they are available from selected leading retailers, Pulsin’ website and Ocado and in Holland and Barrett later month.
Want to enjoy a small snack while you have a drink? Now you can have your favourite drink and the snack you love all in one cup! Snackeez is the all-in-one snacking solution that is ideal for kids or adults that are on-the-go.
A huge welcome to Week 44 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 13th November 2015 so you have plenty of time to link with us! This week I am featuring snacks.
My son has been watching quite a lot of video on YouTube and one of the videos he saw was about unwrapping a food box and trying out the snacks in it. So he asked my sister who happened to be working in Japan at the time to make him a box.
I asked her to get us a small box of candies and I was so surprised to receive a huge box of Japanese goodies! Some of them are my favourites too! I have been to Japan three times for holidays and I am totally in love with the place and their cute ‘kawaii’ foods/snacks. They place emphasis on the emotive packaging and pay extra attention to detail. It makes the food so appealing!
Apam Balik, also called Min Chiang Kueh (面煎粿) is one of the local snacks from my childhood that I used to eat for breakfast or dessert. Nowadays, it is a very common kueh/snack you can find at shopping malls or at hawker centres. They can come in many different fillings like ground peanut, red bean paste, cheese, salted green bean paste, chocolate, black sesame seed and many more. It is more common/traditional to have ground peanuts as the filling. If you have a nut allergy, you might want to avoid some of the Asian desserts!
My preferred filling for Min Chiang Kueh is ground peanut. I had already bought a few packets of ready-made ground peanut with sugar while in Singapore last year so now was an opportunity to use it.
Dr. Oetker wants everyone to celebrate the great and good about chocolate and get experimental by trying new chocolatey bakes you have never attempted before. To get everyone excited, throughout March, Dr. Oetker is running a Twitter competition to encourage everyone to have a go at baking their own yummy chocolate cakes and bakes. To enter, simply Tweet @DrOetkerbakes a photo of a chocolate bake you have made and tell them who you will be sharing it with using the hashtag #evenbetterbaking for the chance to win a deluxe hamper of Dr.Oetker chocolate products! What are you waiting for!
We are a huge fan of chocolate and I frequently bake chocolate cakes or cookies to share. Chocolate always tastes better if it’s shared with your loved ones and friends. I tried baking traditional chocolate profiteroles recently, but this time around, I decided to make a creative linked heart effect pattern on the Choux buns. This chocolate recipe can be found on Dr. Oetker’s website where you can find lots of baking inspiration for chocolate cakes and bakes.
It’s time for Tuesday Tutorials Pintorials Pin Party once more! Hooray! It’s Spring time! Let hope the weather is going to be good for us! This week I am featuring snacks for kids!
Peanut cookies are one of my favourite snacks to eat during Chinese New Year. Normally we will buy them from shops in Singapore but now living in the UK, it is impossible unless I buy them from Chinatown. So I decided to make it myself using the recipe book given to me by my aunty.
The first obstacle I found to making this recipe was trying to buy roasted peanuts without added salt. In the end I bought raw peanuts and made everything from scratch. You can usually find packets of raw peanuts in the health food aisle of a supermarket. To make roasted peanuts, I chopped the raw peanuts in a blender and roasted them in the oven at 160°C for 15 minutes. I stirred the peanuts every 5 minutes of baking.
Last week, I baked a chocolate cake, cut out cylinder shapes and made icing. Unfortunately, my icing was too runny and it ruined all my mini cupcakes! So I had no choice but to cheat as my guests were due to arrive. I bought the ready-made vanilla icing and a packet of cupcakes! So if you ever ruin your Christmas party snacks or need a quick Christmas recipe to impress your relatives and friends, look no further! This is very simple Santa Hat cupcake and won’t take you too long at all. You will need a piping star nozzle and piping bag for this.
