My American Friend and Singapore Topless Carwash

This is another coffee talk with my American friend at Ah Lian’s coffee shop. John was reading the morning paper and.............

John : Wow, this carwash in Singapore is offering titillating car wash experience for customers

Ah Lian : Oh, what is ‘titillating’ ahhh?

John : The car wash is offering topless women to wash their car! How can they do that! This is a disgrace to women’s image!

Ah Lian : Like that also can ah! Ah Kua (transvestite) or real girl? Nowadays, all Ah Kua also got ‘LTTL’ leh! The two things, ting ting tong tong here and there how to wash car topless larrrrr! He he he!

John : What the heck is ‘LTTL’?

Ah Lian : Aiya, John boy, LTTL is ‘Leng Tua Tua Liap’ in Hokkien lah! Means this one big big (pointing at you know where).

John : I have learned another few new Hokkien words today, all of which if I used will get me in trouble! I wonder what all the women NGOs will say about this offer by the Singaporean carwash.

Ah Lian : Aiyo, what to paiseh (shy) lah John, we are all adults. Want to wash my car or not this weekend?......wink wink!

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Aiyo Colonel Sanders aka Mr KFC, Why So Small?

A fortnight ago, I went to KFC in Kepong Jaya Jusco with my kids. Since KFC came out with a new dish, the Shrimp Stix, I wanted to try them by ordering the snack plate combo with Shrimp Stix. They sure look succulent and tasty in the brochure and advertisement. I am not sure KFC worldwide have this dish or it is only introduced in Malaysia. I thought it would be nice to have some seafood instead of chicken all the time! But when I saw the Shrimp Stixs, I am surprised that they looked very much smaller that the ones we see in the advertisement and brochures. This is what you see in the advertisement and brochures

This was the actual one that was served to me! See how small if you compare it relatively to the one in the brochure! One mouthful and my kids finished it immediately.

How Do You Normally Cook Canned Sardine?

I always keep a few cans of sardine in my kitchen larder, so that whenever I am a little lazy or too busy to cook, I just have to heat up the sardine and eat them with steamed rice. Furthermore, my kids also love to eat canned sardine in tomato sauce. I would normally sautéed some onion slices until it caramelized, add in the sardine and use the empty can to add a little water. Sometimes if I have lime, I would add some lime juice to the sardine to reduce the strong fishy smell. Adding a little sugar would enhance the taste a little bit more. So, how do you normally cook your canned sardine in tomato sauce?

Homemade Air Sirap Bandung (Rose Flavoured) Drink Using Dragon Fruit Juice as Colouring

My son likes to drink Sirap Bandung and he would always ask me to buy a packet of it whenever I visit any Pasar Ramadan. Since the one sold commercially usually use Artificial Red Colouring, I decided to make my own version of sirap bandung. I have a bottle of artificial colouring agent, Cochineal Red but instead of using this, I used the juice from red Dragon fruit. But before you use the freshly squeezed juice you have to sieve it to remove the seeds, or else your sirap bandung drink would have little black objects floating in it! The aroma of the drink comes from the rose essence which you can buy from the cake and bakery section of any shops. I have tried to use natural rose tea to make sirap bandung but it did not turn out well. The rose aroma is just not strong enough. Ingredients for making Sirap Bandung Concentrate Water, 1 bowl Sugar, 8 table spoons or more. Dragon Fruit juice, 3 table spoons or more (alternatively you can use Cochineal Red, 2 drops) Pandan Leaves (Screw pine), 3 pcs Rose Essence, 3 to 4 drops, or to taste Sweetened condensed milk, to taste (0ptional) Bring water to a boil with the pandan leaves in it. Add sugar and stir until all the sugar is dissolve. Turn of the heat. Add dragon fruit juice and rose essence. Your sirap bandung concentrate is ready. To make the drink, put some of the concentrate in a glass and add the desired amount of plain drinking water. You can drink it with condensed milk added or without condensed milk. Serve chilled. Related Drinks Post 1) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/07/malibu-rum-with-orange-juice-cocktail.html 2) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-favourite-cocktail-7up-with-malibu.html

Pizza for 50 Students – Teacher's Day

A few months ago, my son’s school celebrated Teacher’s day and he asked me to cook for their class party. Actually it was a potluck party and I thought is would be rather easy if I make pizza for the class. I have cooked pizza quite often for my family and are now rather familiar with this recipe. First I have to estimate how much dough I need and the amount of garnishing required. I used smoked sausages, onions, garlic, carrot, green beans and corn for the pizza topping. Anyway, I think I have made quite an accurate estimation and the pizza turned out well. Overall, it took me one and a half hour to prepare everything! As I was rushing to prepare the pizza, I did not record down how much ingredients I used.....so this time around, I shall not publish this recipe. 1) http://veganformation.blogspot.com/2009/06/spicy-thin-crust-vegetarian-tom-yam.html 2) http://peteformation.blogspot.com/2009/05/super-longhey-what-is-that-pizza-recipe.html

Peteformation Korean Samgyetang – Ginseng Chicken Soup Recipe

My version of Samgyetang and the high powered Korean Ginseng that I bought in Korea!

This is one of my favourite Korean foods. Samgyetang normally uses a whole chicken but in my recipe, I used chicken pieces because I did not have a whole chicken in my fridge. Samgyetang is a very nutritious Korean food, which the main ingredients consist of whole Korean ginseng, glutinious rice, garlic, ginger and wolfberry. Sometimes dongkwai are also added to it. Samgyetang is effective to revitalise our body and replace lost energy! I have modified this dish a little bit, using whatever ingredients that is available in my fridge. The end result tasted quite near to the original Samgytang I had in Korea. Here is the recipe. Ingredients Chicken, 1 bird Korean Ginseng Powder, 1 teaspoon Wolfberry (kei chi), 1 table spoon Dongkwai, 1 pc Ginger, 1”x1”x” Garlic, 5 pcs Salt to taste Pepper, ½ teaspoon Red Dates (Ang Cho), 5 pcs Spring Onions for garnishing Put chicken in a cooking pot. Pour water over the chicken until it cover the chicken. Add more water if you want more soup. Put all the ingredients and boil for 1 hour. Serve with rice or noodles. I love to eat it with chili padi (bird eye chilli).....LOL!

Ditali Rigati, Italian Pasta with Cream Cheese and Hickory BBQ Sauce

It is Ditali Rigati (try to pronounce with some Italian accent)......not ‘tarik tali’ ahhhh! Ha ha ha! A half packet of this pasta has been sitting in my kitchen cabinet for quite while. Ditali Rigati is actually Italian pasta shaped like the gears in machines. My kids love the shape of this pasta and they think that it look very cool! I thought that it would be nice if I cook it using the cream cheese that I have in my fridge. As for the aroma, I used hickory barbecue sauce which already has herbs such as oregano and thyme in it, so it save me the trouble and time of adding all these stuff or making a bouquet barni (French for a bunch of herbs, eg thyme, parley and bay leaf). This is one of the quickie recipes that I cook for supper!

Ingredients
Ditali Rigati Pasta, 250 gms,
Boiled in hot water until it soften
Minced Chicken Meat, 150gms
Onions, 1 large
Tomato paste, one cup
Sugar, ½ teaspoon
Cream Cheese, 2 table spoons (you can use any other type of cheexe)
Hickory BBQ sauce, 3 table spoons
Salt to taste
Olive Oil, 3 table spoons, (can use normal vegetable oil)

Thyme, (optional), a little Heat up pan and pour some olive oil into it. Sautéed onions until it caramelized and then add in the chicken meat. Stir the mixture over slow fire and then add cheese. Add tomato paste, sugar, hickory BBQ sauce and salt to taste. Pour the sauce over the cooked pasta and garnish with lettuce or fresh tomato.

Maggi Tasty Lite for Supper....errr Early Morning Snack Actually!

I was wide awake this morning at 1.30 am after making milk and feeding my little toddler. Then my stomach started growling and could not sleep. I went to the kitchen and found a packet of Maggi Tasty Lite. I cook it with plain and added a dash of extra virgin olive oil. I found some leftover Romaine Lettuce in my fridge and decided to garnish the maggi mee with it. Maggi Tasty Lite is suppose to have low salt content and no added MSG. The curry taste is a little too bland for my taste buds but it is spicier than the normal Maggi Curry Mee. So I have to add some light soya sauce to enhance the taste a little bit! So, there I was, eating maggi mee early in the morning and watching my favourite AFC channel which was airing Bruce Lim and Angel Aquino, Tablescapes – Life on a plate. This episode of Tablescapes touched on the use of coconut milk in Philippines’s cuisine. Hit the sack around 2.30 am!