Foodelicious!

Dumplings... my earliest memory of dumpling is my mama sitting on a low stool infront of many pots of ingredients. She will very artfully scoop each of these ingredients into what looks like a cup made of a big leaf in her other hand and I, being easily amused, would squat next to her and watch her turn the cup around and viola! into a triangle. Of course, I was like a puppy tagging behind my mama throughout the whole process, watch these bunch of triangles lowered into a big hot pot of steaming water.. sit there and wait for it to be ready and when it was finally, my mama will scoop up these bunches of triangles and I will be waiting like a naughty cat by the side... Hehehehe.. yes, this is another one of my favorite food.

Traditionally, the filling will have pork but since I dont consume pork, I was motivated to make these favorites myself and improvised using chicken. Frankly, I think it is just as good if not healthier. In my dumplings, I have ingredients like chestnuts, mung beans, thick succulent mushrooms, dried prawns and of course, the marinated full of flavored chicken. The tedious part of this dumpling making is not the wrapping of the dumpling or the boiling but the preparation.. so much work goes into deveining the chestnuts, preparing the marinate for the chicken and everything has to be pre-cooked before wrapping. And that! is a lot of work!

Yes, my favorite dumplings are for sale at RM5.50 each with a minimum order of 5 dumplings.

Watch out for the next series of dumplings... nyonya is one of the "next in line"...

Curry puffs... What can I say except that it is my favorite local snack. These little pleasures are crispy on the outside and the filling is most definitely a bomb! lots of chuncky chicken and potatoes nicely flavored with a blend of home made curry powder. Simply delicious!

These little pleasures are sold at RM2 each with a minimum order of 20 pieces.

Li Ping likes everything about being a girl.... and here is a set of small lemonade cuppies to celebrate her birthday... minimum order of 50 cuppies at RM2.50 each.

Ok.. here is the deal.. what do you design for a 11 years old boy who has left specific instructions he doesnt want any cartoon characters or latest super heroes and upon observing him, you noticed he likes soccer? Hehehehe...

This is a mini world cup cake for this boy whose parents celebrated his 11th birthday with so many guest. The cake weigh in at 6.2kg and it is a marbled butter cake and total price is RM380.

Otak - Otak.. It is a nyonya dish which apparently originated from bygone era european seamen. I was told that it was the Dutch seamen that introduced this dish. These seamen preserved their fish dish by flavoring with herbs and have it all wrapped up in cloth and steamed. As it was wrapped in cloth, it does not have the nice smooth surface but instead it looks like brain especially since it was white, soft and squishy. Hence the name.

Of course, the innovative nyonyas added their signature into this dish by spicing it up! By the way, did you all know that this is a common dish amongst seafaring europeans of today such as the Scandinavian countries. Theirs is also slightly spicy as they acquired the spices from South Africa?

A big thank you to Chin See for enlightening us with this history...

Curry puff - A well known snack that is everybody's favorite! Of course, this wasnt so pretty as it should be for some reason. I blame it on the weather. It has been exceptionally hot and humid these past weeks and handling the oil based pastry was simply.. challenging is a mild way of putting it. The uniqueness of this pastry is that it has an oil and water based pastries.. combined and it will give you a very crispy and light pastry that will not go soft and chewy like rubberband.

As for the filling, I made it with potatoes and chunks of chicken fillet. Please note it is chunks and not minced chicken meat. I dont like minced chicken meat in my curry puff or pies. It is just not happening. No style!! Anyway, I didnt flavour it too spicy as I wanted to entice the kids with this.

And of course, we had the ever famous popiah.. make ourselves popiah.. put whatever you like in your popiah or in Brandon's case, dont put anything but the sauce on the popiah (skin).. That was Brandon's style of popiah...

Here we have the condiments, the main star, the skin and sauce and final product..

And of course, the final product!!

The best part of it all was the company! I had great fun hosting this lunch. Thank you for making my Sunday fun..

That was my dinner.. a teriyaki salmon steak with some boiled vegetables and home made mashed potatoes and brown gravy... Well, have been craving for salmon steak for the longest time and finally had the time to get it done. Hehehe.. yes, I have been very busy with my orders lately. Nothing new but a lot of repeat.. the bestseller is still the endless summer, sinful and Rio! cake.. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for all your support...

Now, let me get going with my salmon steak... nom.. nom.. nom.. nom.. nom... yummmms!

My friend came to me and told me that she needed a set of cupcakes to poke fun at being 50 and I came up with all that.. reading glasses, walking cane, walking sticks, love, wobbling handwriting and my friend came up with wheelchair!! Hahaha..

These are twister cupcakes.. lemonade cuppies with Lemon curd filling for a double dose of fun going at RM6 each. A minimum order of 16 is required.