Cooking :: Macaroni and Cheese

I love cheese, and I'm curious to make Macaroni and Cheese. Seems so delicious. I ate first time at Malaysia, at KLIA airport Pastamania. And it's delicious.

Ingredients:
- 100gr Macaroni
- 750ml Milk Full Cream
- 100gr Cheddar Cheese, shreded
- 100gr Cheese Melt / Mozarella, shreded
*Mozarella is so expensive in here, and because I seldom use cheese, so it's too wasting, so I used Cheese Melt

How to make it?
- Boiled Macaroni with 500ml Milk, until the milk is lesser and more sticky, the macaroni will be edible to eat.
- add the rest of the milk, and boiled again, don't forget to keep mix using spoon, so the macaroni will not be sticked at the bottom
- wait until the milk lesser, but don't let it all gone, put the cheese (both).
- mixed well and serve

It's simple. Next time, I want to try the baked one.

Cooking :: Siomay

Every year, in the end of March and early April, we as chinese people, has held a Qing Ming Festival. Qingming Festival is when Chinese people visit the columbaria, graves or burial grounds to pray to their ancestors.

This time, my mom always make Shaomai. The Shaomai here, is different with Indonesian Siomay. The recipe is from my anchestor. We use pork meat.

Cooking :: Grilled Pork

Today, I bought 300gram of pork meat. I plan to grill it, just like when we go to BBQ place in Korea.

Ingredient:
- 300 gram of pork meat (sancham)
- salt, sugar, soy sauce, pepper
- Minched garlic

How to make it?
- Cut the pork meat, according to your taste
- marinate with salt, sugar, soysauce, pepper, minched garlic, according to your taste for abou 1-2 hour.
- Heat the pan
- Put the meat one by one, and grill it.
- Flip it until cook enough
- Serve

Cooking :: Fried Cheese

I'm craving for cheese, so today, I make fried cheese. It's simple.

Ingredients:
- Cheese Melt / Mozarella (Mozarella is a little expensive here, so I just use cheese melt)
- Bread flour
- 1 Egg

How to make?
- Cut the cheese melt into dice, or any shape you want. Dip it into the egg, and cover it with Bread flour. Make sure to cover everything.
- Repeat the action, 3 times or more, until the cheese really covered.
- Heat the pan and oil, and put the covered cheese into the pan. Once it looks brown, then flip it. Don't flip it too much or you will broke the surface and the cheese melt will come out.
- It only need less than 10 minutes to cook it. If you cover the cheese properly, then the cheese fried will not broken, and the cheese will not come out.
- Serve while hot, so the cheese still on melting condition.

Cooking :: Petai with Scrambled Egg and Fried Fish (Bandeng)

Today, it's our cooking day. Me and my sister-in-law decided to make Petai with Scrambled Egg and Fried Fish.

The recipe is from my mom.

Petai with Scrambled Egg

Fried Fish (Bandeng)

Cooking :: Bakut Teh Singapore

My mom got a present from Singapore, it's Bakut Teh Powder.

So, I try to cook it. We just need:

- Pork Rib Meat
- Garlic

How to cook?
- Boil the meat with plain water, until the froth rise to surface.
- Remove the ribs from the pot, then discard water. Clean the pot.
- Then Simmer the same ribs, with water and additional ingredients like mushroom, etc.
- Once simmering, add the Bak Kut Teh Powder and the garlic, and cook for 1 hour.
- Then serve it.

Credit: Bakut Teh

Culinary :: Steamed Corn

My sister-in-law still has a lot of corn in her storage, so today, she made steamed corn for us.
It's delicious.

It's easy, just steamed the corn. then, put it on the bowl, and mix with butter and cheese. Give a little Milk and salt.
Enjoy it.

Songdo International Business District > Incheon ~ South Korea > Day 11 (2) - 2014 October 18 (Busan, Gyeongju, Seoul, Daegwallyeong, Nami Island, Mt Seorak, Kuala Lumpur)

After put our luggage at the new hotel, then I'm going to visit my Korean's friend, Nana. We met when study Chinese at Beijing. She made Tteokbokki, from then, I like Tteokbokki.

Her house is located at Songdo International Business District. And it's far-far away from the city. We ride subway about 2 hours to Campus Town Subway Station.

Songdo International Business District (Songdo IBD) is a new smart city or "ubiquitous city" built from scratch on 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of reclaimed land along Incheon's waterfront, 65 kilometres (40 mi) southwest of Seoul, South Korea and connected to Incheon International Airport by a 12.3-kilometre (7.6 mi) reinforced concrete highway bridge, called Incheon Bridge. Along with Yeongjong and Cheongna, it is part of the Incheon Free Economic Zone.[2]

The Songdo International Business District will feature the Northeast Asia Trade Tower and the Incheon Tower. Schools, hospitals, apartments, office buildings and cultural amenities are to be built in the district. Replicas of architectural hallmarks, including New York City's Central Park and Venice's waterways, will also be incorporated. This 10-year development project is estimated to cost in excess of $40 billion, making it one of the most expensive development projects ever undertaken.

Credit: Wikipedia

The first impression for this city is, Wow... It would be nice to live here.

My friend pick us at the station, and then we ride car to her apartment. This time also, her husband cook Tteokbokki for us, and it's delicious. Too bad, I don't know why, but this time I travelling to South Korea, I didn't feel hungry at all. Even I still wants to eat, but I'm already full.

The apartment is nice and comfy. I would like to have one if I have a chance. haha...

2013 Chinese New Year Dinner Reunion

Every Chinese Year, my big family always gathering together to celebrate it. Usually, we celebrate twice, Chinese New Year Eve and Chinese New Year. Just like New year 1st January.

In Chinese New Year Eve, my mom and aunty cook a lot of food. We gathering and eat reunion dinner before Chinese New Year. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity." Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.

And when the Chinese New Year come, young people give New Year greetings for elder. We ussually wear red clothes.

Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

Here's some food which we had in this year's Chinese New Year:

The most important dishes for Chinese New Year in my family is this, pete or sataw

Homemade: Not Spicy Pete/Sataw with Chicken Fillet

Homemade: Pete/Sataw with Chicken Fillet and Paprika

Homemade: Spicy Pete/Sataw with Chicken Fillet

It's because, many people in my family like Pete/Sataw, but with different taste (spicy and no spicy), so we serve 3 kind of it.

Homemade Shrimp with Sweet Sauce (Udang Bago)

Roasted Pig

Homemade: Mushroom mix with Tofu and Vegetables

Bisteak

Homemade: Fried Bakso

Homemade: Spicy Squid

Homemade: Corn Soup

Homemade: Dori Fish

Homemade: Pork

Homemade: Bakso Soup

Homemade: Desert