Last weekend, I went to join the kids sushi making class organized by Penang Foyi’s welfare group, a buddhist society here. I am not a kids but my friend was the organizer and she asked me to join in for fun and so I went. It’s held at Sushi King, Prangin Mall.

There’s like over 40 kids at there and everyone was so anxious about the class. I did sushi myself before but it was quite a failed one because I’ve forgotten to mix the vinegar with sugar and salt.

They thought us some simple Japanese term on food. Then rice mixing and the important part which people always forget is mix vinegar with sugar and salt. This is very important or else the rice would be tasteless. Pour vinegar on a mixing bowl or cup or anything, then add in sugar and salt. Don’t really need a lot, you can try the taste with your finger until and sweet and salty feel. Only then pour the mixed vinegar into your cooked Japanese rice.

We did have a little hands on. But only did 2 sushi. It’s for the kids and it’s not really a real hands on because they gave us rice that’s already shaped by machine and we only needed to wrap it with crabstick and nori sheet. And their nori sheet is nicely cut already, unlike what we bought from the supermarket.

Guess the best part of the day was having the little sushi bento and learning about mixing vinegar with sugar and salt. Haha. I’m gonna try it again at home because I failed last time. My sushi was pretty tasteless.

I am sure the kids did have a good time at there.

Nothing much to comment, the vegetarian food, in fact some other food, not-vegetarian sucks too at the Malaysian National Service Camp, the camp I was in was Kem PLKN White Resort. You can’t expect much, some times the food is good, some times the good is not, some times you like it, some times you don’t. It’s a camp, you can’t look for good food except self-cooked instant noodle and tidbits which rock. =D

What I loved the most in the camp was the fried chicken ala Malay style and scramble eggs. But somehow, the canteen operator was very selfish who only take a little scramble egg for people.

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I <3 Milo, chocolate flavour beverage. =) Do you?

I bought this to National Service camp but I only ate one or two chocolate chips flavour biscuit. I am not a biscuit person and this served as my emergency food in camp. But somehow, most of them were consumed by my Malay friends in camp. ^.^ Now I came back already, the whole thing still haven’t finish and I left it there for them.

This is an Egg Tart from Ipoh. Look at the center filling, it’s so much and so pretty. Delicious! Don’t ask me where to buy because I don’t know also. Haha, an Ipoh friend bought for me one.

Yesterday afternoon I went to Grandma’s place and she cooked 4 dishes for lunch and all of them were damn nice!

Fried Belachan Chicken

Vegetarian Duck

Sour and Spicy Fish

Siong Tong Yuen Choi. Basically it’s vegetable, salted egg, century egg cooked together with soup.

Grandma’s food rocks and NS food does not rocks, except the chicken in camp hard like a rock. LOL

I went to Kuala Lumpur 2 days ago to visit the Malaysia International Furniture Fair (MIFF) at PWTC (Putra World Trade Centre) with dad. Dad is working in the furnishing industries. ^^ Their caterer for food should really improve on their food because serving not-up-to-par food to International visitor will gives them a bad impression about Malaysia’s food.

The nasi lemak I had was very GELI (a slang as in yucks!). Ingredient-less, and not spicy, can’t feel the lemak-ness. We were in a rush, so we had one of our meal at there, so basically, we were forced to eat at there. Else, would went to look for good food in town, perhaps Jalan Alor? =)

Seriously, it’s an international event and we must have good food at event venue! Agree?

Roasted Pork. 烧肉 (mandarin: shao1 rou4, cantonese: siu yok, hokkien: sio bak) Bought from Pulau Tikus’ market. My favourite!

Cooked mushroom.

Fried Mangkuang, Hainanese food.

Prawn cooked in don’t know what sauce. Tasted a bit sweet and spicy.

Hainanese Spring Roll, bought from the Pulau Tikus’ market too! Nice nice.

Lastly, there’s the Pork Leg cooked with Yam. Not my favourite though. XD

Last week, I went to a friend place to talk and found out that they were making cupcakes. I didn’t really know how to make and when I was there, they were almost finished.

Chocolate flavour with homemade chocolate vanilla cream topping.

Looks not bad, but FAILED. The cream was too soft, too creamy, melted and the cupcake muffin was too, I don’t know how to describe, it’s not crispy enough, it’s like not harden enough too. Weird feel. Gonna try again with other flavour next time.