Kimchi tofu soup

This is a really simple to do recipe and it tastes just as nice as those you eat outside at food courts. Still incomparable to authentic Korean kimchi soup but worth a try!

Ingredients:
Chicken chopped into small pieces
Spring onion
Vegetable
Onions
Garlic
Sesame oil
Kimchi
Korean chilli paste
Water
Light soya sauce
Tofu

Steps:
1. Heat the sesame oil and stir fry the garlics till scent is smelt
2. Add in the chicken and cook till almost white
3. Add the spring onion, onions, kimchi and Korean chilli paste (portions are to your own liking) and give a quick stir
4. Next pour water (not too much, probably 2 cups or lesser) and bring it to boil
5. Put the vegetable in and lastly the tofu
6. Let it simmer and add light soya sauce to taste and its done!

PS. To increase spicyness, add more Korean chilli paste and some fresh chopped chilli. When cooking soups, you should constantly taste it and add ingredients accordingly.
The Korean chilli paste can be found at NTUC Fairprice. There is currently on offer, selling at $4.70.

The real custard buns. Where to find them.

Check out my previous post - fried salted egg custard buns to know what I meant by the REAL custard buns.

As I said before, I was on the hunt for the real custard buns. So I have found them!
In Singapore, the only place so far to eat them is at Lao Beijing (please patronise the Plaza Singapura outlet, they serve better food than the one at Orchard Central). I ate them during their tea time buffet, but please note that they change the menu for their dim sums so these custard buns may not be served.

I recently went to Bangkok for a short holiday trip and to my delight, Bangkok is a custard bun paradise. The first time I tried the custard bun was at MK restaurant where they sell mainly steamboat and also dim sums (will give a review on MK restaurant soon). They called them cream buns instead and they taste sooooo well, definitely not the salted egg version.

For people staying in Baiyoke sky hotel, the tallest hotel in Thailand, you are in for a treat! Their buffet breakfast is really good with a wide variety of food available. Of course, they serve the hot steamy yummy custard buns. If you want to try the fried version of these custard buns, please have the dinner buffet at the 79th floor. They serve a wide range of dim sums and they have oh so good roasted pig, duck, meat and large large prawns. I would definitely recommend Baiyoke Sky's buffet breakfast and the dinner buffet at the 79th floor (Chinese restaurant).

Homemade waffles

Makes 5 waffles.

Ingredients:
125g plain flour
1.5 tsp corn flour (makes waffles crispy)
50g sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 egg
100ml full cream unsweetened condensed milk
60ml pandan juice
20ml water
30ml vegetable oil
1 tsp lemon juice

Steps:
1. Mix all dry ingredients, flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and corn flour.
2. Whisk milk, pandan water, water, oil and egg yolk till well combined.
3. Whisk in the wet ingredients into the flour mixtures till batter is slightly lump and thick (be careful not to over mix)
4. Whisk egg white with lemon juice till stiff peak formed.
5. Fold egg white into mixture
6. Preheat waffle maker and pour the batter in!
7. Time taken for waffles to be ready, 5-8minutes.

PS. I adapted this from cuisine paradise by Ellena and make changes to it. Please visit her blog, she has tons of recipes. The waffles turned out to be soft inside and crispy outside. I didn't taste any pandan smell. Despite this, it turned out to be delicious especially if you eat it with ice cream. I would try making vanilla waffles or cinnamon ones next time! Stay tune for the review!

Thai Pineapple rice

Ingredients:
1. 3 shallots
2. garlic
3. carrots
4. marinated prawns
5. 2.5 cups of overnight rice (best used for cooking fried rice)
6. Pinapple rice paste as seen below (Promotion at NTUC now, 3 packs for $4.95)
7. Spring Onion
8. Chilli (For non chilli eaters, leave this out)
9. 400g pineapple cubes
10. Coriander for garnishing

Steps:
1. Heat the oil and fry 1 and 2.
2. Add 3. Fry a while.
3. Add 4. Fry until prawn almost cooked.
4. Add the rice and paste. Stir fry.
5. Add spring onion and chilli.
6. Lastly add the pineapples and mix well.
7. Garnish with coriander.

The Ultimate product:

Curry chicken pasta

What you need

Awesome curry and of course chicken
(I may do a curry post)
Some garlic
Pasta
Parsley and some sweet basil to garnish
To increase spicy meter, your favourite chilli paste

Steps:
1. Heat up oil and fry garlics till scent is smelt.
2. Add in your curry (your curry should be like a paste, not too liquid)
3. Stir fry and add in the pasta.
4. Mix till blend and you are done!
5. You can add parsley and basil for decorations. Don't forget your chicken!

You can add your chilli paste in step 2 along with the curry.

Thai express

Here's a short review of some dishes at Thai Express. After this post, do look out for a Bangkok food post!

Thai Express!
They do serve good Thai food. 

Tom Yam Seafood Clear soup
Rating: 7/10
One of the best tom yam soup I have tasted (even better than Thailand's), what more  do I need to say?

Chicken with cashew in sweet sour sauce
Rating: 6/10
A good appetiser however it didn't possess the Oo-wow factor.

Chicken curry with prata
Rating: 5/10
An average tasting curry and prata.

Seafood otah with condensed milk
Rating: 8/10
A definite must try! Awesome otah.

Black pepper dong feng with soft shell crab
Rating 7/10
You may try this dish out. Isn't fantastic but still worth a try.