Month: July 2009

Hay Pia (Prawn Cake)

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I’m sure many locals know what this is. In fact, I’m not sure the real name of the dish, we at home usually called it hay pia (in Hokkien), “Hay” means prawn and “Pia” means cake. It’s deep fried flour cake with couple of prawns on it.

However, this whole dish is not only consist of hay pia. There are other things like hot dog, sweet potato, yam, bishop nose, fish plate, fish ball, and many more, all those deep fried food. When we say want to eat hay pia, it won’t be just hay pia but those other stuff that I mentioned will be part of the package.

The popular one was from Rex, we used to buy it from there but now… I don’t know where they move to. We usually buy ours now from Peach Garden Cafe at Pending Height.

I think the tastiness of this dish is the condiment, chili sauce and grounded peanut. These two must be good else it will not taste good as you know those deep fried stuff taste the same everywhere. It’s just a matter of crispy or not.

I won’t say the one at the usual place we buy is good but it is enough to satisfy our craving for it.

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White Fantasy Milkshake

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This is my second time making milkshake. First time was yearssssssss back… It was mango milkshake. This time I decided to make milkshake again because it kept playing in my mind last night when I hit the bed.

Milkshake is very easy to do, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do it.

Dad bought a tub of white chocolate flavour ice cream with marshmallow the other day. I was thinking hmm… It might be interesting to have white chocolate milk shake with marshmallows. You see the pink and yellow things in the milkshake? Those are from the ice cream itself.

Very simple to do. The amount of the ingredients are really up to you, so long you have them. You can have equal amount of milk and ice cream or less milk more ice cream or more milk less ice cream. Milk can be any milk from the box or make it from milk powder.

Ingredients:

  • White chocolate flavour ice cream with marshmallow (White Fantasy from King’s)
  • Milk
  • Ice cubes (up to you)

Steps:

  • Pour milk into the shaker.
  • Add in ice cream into the shaker.
  • Add ice cubes into the shaker.
  • Secure the shaker’s lid and start shaking!
  • Done! Serve in cups/glasses.

Do you see that very familiar shaker in the photo? Hehehe… This is something very old, free gift from Nescafe. However, I threw it away after done this milkshake because it’s broken. Actually it had some hairline fractures but I didn’t bother. With shaking I did just now, it finally leak and cannot be used anymore.

If you don’t have a shaker, just get any bottle or container that can stand the shaking of ice cubes with tight lid will do.

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The Sims 3 – The C Family (Pt.1)

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Finally got The Sims 3 last Sunday. Not going to tell you where I got it ;p I have my source. Don’t ask and thank you hahaha…

I’ve been playing The Sims since the very first it was introduced long long time ago, I don’t remember when and how. I think it was my bro who bought the game and that time he was only in primary school. We love to play the game so much not for the character building but to decorate a house! We never progress much in playing the game but kept renovating and redecorating the house only. The characters are secondary.

Sadly, my XPS cannot support the game very much -.-” I don’t have enough RAM, so I had to play it in 800×600 resolution and reduce many graphical properties. In fact playing with such setting is enough to slow my computer a LOT! The game hangs quite a fair bit unless I close all my browsers and MSN. It’s pretty annoying really but what to do… Actually I can still play full screen if I off everything except this game but I still need to do some other things on the computer, there is no way for me to solely play this games without attending to other matters as you know how much time playing such game can consume.

I was amazed by the new functions. You can customize so many types of designs on practically everything, from the colours to the patterns. Cool! The sims are smarter now compare to last time ;p Not only that, the furniture can be placed around with more flexibility too. You can also go shopping, attend classes, gyms, go to beauty salons, dine in a restaurant and more! Unlike last time you have to buy the extension packs.

Anyway, here’s my game screen shoots:

Left: The house, I didn’t build it, lazy, I just placed the furniture in and extended the house a bit. The money? From cheats of course ;p My sims will never need to worry about money therefore to make it an easy game, I’ll just get them to be money oriented in their traits.

Right: My sims, Clair and Craig C. Couldn’t think of any name, simply gave one. They were housemates and my plan was to make them fall in love, get married and have kids *LOL* Just very normal sims hehehe… Nothing interesting. Then I’ll renovate and extend the house when new sims comes.


Developing their love for each other, lots of kissing, flirting, cuddling, making out, and woohoo ;p.


Clair proposed! Hahaha… I wanted Craig to propose but then I couldn’t find the option.


24 hours later, they had a simple wedding ceremony. Hmm… I was hoping that Clair would change into a wedding gown but aiks… No… There wasn’t one. Wonder how to get her to wear one *LOL*

Previously in The Sims 2, when they got married, they will automatically donned wedding attire. For this one, I don’t know how. Still have lots to discover.

Next, will get them to make babies hahaha… Want to see how they make one? ;p

Then after I got bored with this family, I might ditch this family and build another character with different story line maybe… Provided I have lots of time or I’m too bored.

Wonder should I post about the progress and set up a new category just for this game? Hehehe…

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175° Cafe

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175° Cafe located at the ex-Tao. Opened not quite long ago and decided to go there for our small gathering.

You can get free fish spa there and free WiFi. However, it is best to make reservation in case you want to try out the fish spa coz the place is limited.


Left: 3 big red lanterns at the staircase leading to the dining area. The staircase is scary (at least for me ;p) -.-” It’s so steep hahaha… There’s no proper handrail that I’m so afraid that I might lose my balance, I’m very bad in balancing ;p

Right: You can either hang out downstair or upstair but the place is limited upstair as in more suitable for large group. Smaller group can hang out near the fish spa.


Left: Section of the dining area. Some said it’s too plain, not enough decor, I think it’s just nice. Too many decors will make the place look narrow and messy. My friends quite like the tables.

Right: Hot caramel (RM7), nothing much for this, just caramel *LOL*


Left: Hot Latte (RM7)

Right: Long Black (RM6)

The feedback I got for the coffees were not bad.


Delicious Beef-Burger (RM8), had given my feedback to them. The patty was fine with me.


Left: Pan-seared Beef Steak (RM16), the good thing was that they didn’t pour the sauce on the meat which is good. The beef steak was requested to be cooked medium rare and they did. You can opt to have either mushroom sauce, black pepper sauce, or their home-made fragrant sauce.

Right: Chicken Chop (RM12), already gave them my feedback about it. It seemed not bad just the size a bit smaller than expected and they said that they will improve on it.

If you want to try it out or make reservation you can call 082-258593, they also have lunch set for those want to have lunch and the price is quite reasonable.

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I *HEART* Stickers

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When I was a little girl, I love to collect stickers and also erasers. Then I have no idea since when I no longer collect them and I got no idea where all those things are now.

Lately, I some what got this interest back. You know… Lee Fah Mee noddle snacks? They are selling a pack of 5 with a sticker in there. It can be anything from cartoon characters to shapes stickers. My dad always buy this snack therefore we got many types of stickers laying around at home. Throwing it away seem wasted summore some of them are pretty cute ones. So I decided to keep them.

Then the other day, my dad bought the snack again and this time the sticker is super duper KAWAIII! OH MY! So cute!

I couldn’t help it and started to pimp my phone with it *LOL* Even my bro too!

They are soooooooooo CUTE! Really can’t help it. I’m going to stick it on my laptop next ;p Maybe… Hahaha…

Cute or not? I mean the sticker ;p

Interesting