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Friday, December 31, 2010

Food Review: Taste Bug's Restaurant and Cafe at KSL (My fav food part 5 JB)

Taste Bug's Restaurant and Cafe at KSL. Newly open this week! Just in time to countdown 2011!

KSL is a mega project consisting of shopping complex, condo, office and hotel. Currently they have open their shopping complex and the rest is still under construction. They have 8 Cinema theater, Karaoke by Kbox and Tesco (coming soon). The first week that i went there I notice that most of the eateries offers Hong Kong food and some fast food centers. I notice that there wasn't any western food eateries. I find it strange since it is a mega project catering to middle and upper income people. But just this week i notice this particular western restaurant/cafe open and I naturally made a "bee-line" towards it! And boy their food exceed my expectation! Their waiter/waitress are rather attentive too.

 Average western food that I ate feels like they are like a fast food centre. Just pop the chicken into the fryer and serve. No seasoning and taste like instant especially western restaurant chain store. 

However this restaurant are different! To me they offer quality food and I can taste their sauce are made from scratch. The main key is the western herb that they infuse into their food. I notice the green herb in almost all their dishes including the fried chicken (under finger food menu). The herbs are not overpowering and bring out the flavor of the food. Curious my friend and I complimented on the food and ask who is the chef and who is the owner. Apparently the chef (owner) just came back from UK and open the restaurant here. No wonder the food tasted delicious!

A Mushroom soup made from scratch! A must try! I scrap the mushroom soup to the last drop. Cost around RM8+

 
Fried chicken. Finger food but enough to share between 3 people. Cost around RM10

Spagetti (Tomato cili sauce). There is clams, cheese sprinkles and western herbs.  Forget the full name but I love this spagetti! I will definitely order again. Cost around RM15+

Spagetti (mushroom). Also forget this dish name. I prefer the tomato flavour spagetti but this also taste delicious. Suitable if you wanted something simple.

Their pizza taste amazing too~! Cost around RM13 plus. Forget the dish name again but there is tuna, vege and generous serving of cheese on very thin crust pizza (imagine indian style naan). There is 6 pieces but I think you can treat this pizza as a side dish and share with friends and family.

This one is Chocolate Fondant cost RM11.95. It is like a chocolate molten lava cake where chocolate syrup will ooze out when you cut the cake. The white topping are vanilla ice cream. Yummy and delicious cake prepared by the chef. The chocolate syrup is still warm and goes nicely with the ice cream. Great way to close the dinner! Next time i want to try their Mud Pie!

The dessert in the menu that they offer are also very attractive.  I am particularly attracted to their dessert when i first sat down! In fact dessert is always the page that I look at longest.

Their deco. Notice that it is actually spagetti and they are Disney characters? How cute is that!

My new toy: Lazy Suzy from Ikea!



My new toy bought from Ikea! Look like an ordinary piece of wood but it is actually a 15 inch Lazy Suzy! It can turn while decorating cake! Wheeee!~Fun!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Looking back 2010~!

This year i seems to have write quiet a few post and experimented a few dishes that i normally wont make. The scope is a little wide till I myself get confuse when people ask me what kind of food I know how to cook. So decide to recap here what i have done this year so far. A good way to see at a glance the food that i tried making and reviewed.

Food review in Johor Bahru
1. Kedai Makanan Seng Steam Fish Restaurant
2. Banafee 
3. Wan Tan Mee: Ho Seng Kee
4. Buying my first Abalone and Bird Nest
5. Baskin-Robbins 31% off on every 31st of the month
6. Burger Stall in front of City Square facing McDonald
7. Restoran Muthu
8. Kim Loong Restaurant 
9.  Meldrum Walk food stalls Part 1
10. Meldrum Walk food stalls Part 2

Food Review in Malacca
1. Nadeje
2. Klebang Coconut Shake
3. Sunset Retreat Restaurant

Cooking
1. Burger!
2. Cheese cake
3. Banana Split
4. Mango Ice cream
5. Blackberry Ice cream
6. Strawberry Ice cream
7. Banana Ice cream
8. Hot Chocolate - Cadbury
9. Curry Chicken 
10. Instant Thosai
11. Vanilla Ice cream and Oreo Cookies (Philadelphia style)
12. Nasi Putih Ayam Kunyit
13. Green Tea Ice cream
14. Chicken Ponteh Recipe (Peranakan Food)
15. Sambal Sotong (Squid) and Sambal Udang (Prawn) Peranakan recipe
16. Dry Mee with poach egg recipe experiment! 
17. How to make yogurt
18. Dried Mee with Mince Meat Sauce
19. Kacang Cream Cake
20. Banana Cake
21. Banana muffin
22. How to poach egg
23. Chocolate ice cream
24. Mash Potato
25. Marathon cooking during my two day off! (Day 1 Oct 18)
26. Marathon cooking during my two day off! (Day 2 Oct 19)
27. Tom Yam
28. Mushroom soup
29. How to make a good Chicken stock?
30. Garlic Bread
31. Tuna Mayo Croissant bread
32. Oreo Ice Cream Cake
33. Apple Crumble Ice cream
34. Homemade Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Sugar!
35. Vanilla Ice cream recipe (cook custard base)
36. Super easy and quick fried rice recipe
37. Vanilla Rasberry Crunchie Ice Cream Recipe 

Kitchen appliance
1. Phillip ice cream maker
2. Daiso Shopping!
3. Chocolate, Matcha Green Tea and Daiso shopping in Singapore
4. Kitchen Spree in October  
5. Where to buy Matcha Green Tea Powder in Singapore? 

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Making Homemade Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Sugar!

 I am so excited making Vanilla extract and Vanilla sugar! KT and Na found the recipe from The Little Teochew and I have anticipate the day that I get all the ingredients, bottle and try them out! My mum always nag when I add in too much artificial Vanilla extract into my dessert. Therefore by creating my own Vanilla Extract I no longer have to rely on artificial Vanilla Extract!


How to make Vanilla sugar
- Just mix the sugar and Vanilla pods

How to make Vanilla extract
-Mix Vodka (35% alcohol) with Vanilla pods (seeds remove). If seeds were not remove will create a mild Vanilla extract. The longer you keep the Vanilla extract the better it will be!

When using the vanilla seeds, just take out from the vanilla sugar. Wash and dry the pods. Split it and remove the seeds. The Vanilla pods can be recycled and dump into the vanilla extract!

 Day 1 of using Vodka + 2 split Vanilla Pods. At first I didnt scrap out the seeds and have to dig them out and split them.
 Day 1 of Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Sugar
Day 5 of Vanilla Extract. Look how the colour has change!

Related post:
How to split the Vanilla pods and remove the seeds?

To cook or not to cook whip cream?

When making certain ice cream like vanilla and chocolate ice cream that require egg custard base, they often need to be cook with the milk. I find that by cooking the whip cream (as oppose to putting the whip cream in at the end), the texture of the ice cream is creamier and thicker! So going forward I will always cook the whip cream whenever the required to cook the custard!

How to split Vanilla pods and scrap out the seeds


Originally this video is about making Blueberry Ice cream. At the front part he show how to split the vanilla pods and getting the seeds out which i find it very useful!

How to make apple crumble recipe


Full Apple Crumble Recipe Video

I wanted to make the crumbs from the Apple crumble recipe and serve the apple raw with cream. The crumbs is intended for Apple crumble ice cream. I found the recipe at this website with detailed steps by steps. They even include a video for better understanding! I also took the mushroom soup recipe from this website. So far the website has been a pretty reliable source of recipes and tips. As I will be modifiying the steps since i am only making the crumbs. Feel free to visit the original site for the full Apple crumble recipe instruction.

I am only making the crumbs of the Apple crumble recipe and I will be using half of the quantity. Thus the amount, flour and apples have been modified or deleted.

Ingredients        
85 grams Granulated sugar     
85 grams Butter or cooking margarine
140 grams Superfine flour

OPTIONAL INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup rolled oats or Corn Flakes (most breakfast cereals will do)

COOKING EQUIPMENT
1 Medium-sized oven-proof dish
Weighing Scales
Fork

Method
Turn your oven on now so that it's pre-heated ready to cook later on! Heat settings are 180C / 350F / Gas Mark 5.
 
Now, make the 'crumble' mixture. I've tried this with my hands, an electric blender and a fork. I think a fork is best but the experts prefer hands!

Mix the butter / margarine with the flour in a dry bowl using a fork until you have a texture like breadcrumbs. It's not important that every single bit is like breadcrumbs, but try and get most of it like that. This will take about three minutes. If you are adding the optional ingredients of oatmeal or Corn Flakes, do it now. Mix it all in well.

Add 56.67g (not all the 85g) ounces of sugar to the mixture and mix it all together with the fork. This will tend to make the mixture even more like breadcrumbs. That's your crumble mixture made and ready.

Spread the crumble on a baking tray and spread out the remaining sugar. Put this into the middle of your pre-heated oven at 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 5 for 20 minutes.
Before baking.

Serve hot or cold with ice cream, cream or custard.

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