Homemade corn soup

This morning I had a dream about my favourite corn soup that my grandma used to make. It's not as tasty as those served in restaurants but whenever I returned to Indonesia every twice a year for holidays, my grandma never failed to make me a whole pot of it. I remembered how i never failed to gobble down at least half of it too! My grandma took it personally when the soup didn't turn out as good as she hoped it to be, and she said cooking corn soup is like lottery to her, it takes a bit of luck and chances everytime. Lol~ The thoughts and efforts that she put into the corn soup made it the most delicious corn soup that I would no longer be able to taste. During her funeral, my dad was even saying to me "Grandma's gone... no one's going to cook corn soup for you anymore". The pain of losing her is still tearing all of us apart now. I hope she's all well up there.

Anyway, I tried to recreate the corn soup using the recipes and ingredients that my grandma used, except that I'm using pure chicken broth and adding shredded chicken slices to my soup. It tastes quite good, except that the appearance didn't seem to be as tempting because I don't have a strainer to pour the eggs through at the last step. I think I've added too much vermicilli too. The soup turns out to be:


... a really THICK corn soup! Lol~ Next time i'll cut down on the vermicilli and corn starch :)

I guess my attempt to recreate grandma's corn soup didn't succeed. It's indeed irreplaceable. Grandma, please come visit us in our dreams and serve us some corn soup ok? Teehee~

Home-made Bi Bim Bab

Home-made Bi Bim Bab prepared by my friend's sister. She's also prepared this dish 2 years ago and I still remembered it was fried eggs back then. This time, she poached the eggs instead. I'm still amazed at how beautiful her poached eggs always turn out. I shall master poached eggs one day!! *motivated*

The Korean dish above is simply a combination of cooked spinach, mushroom, raw carrots, cucumber, sliced chicken, some kim chi and Bi Bim sauce from the supermarket & of course top it off with your favourite eggs!

On a side note, the extremely lack of updates on this blog is mostly due to the convenience of twitter & the pretty features of instagram, as well as other wonderful apps that app developers out there have successfully captured all of us apple iphone fanatics. Will definitely try to update more often now, seeing as how my english levels have dropped drastically....

Taiwanese style porridge & dumplings

Taiwanese-style porridge & boiled dumplings for dinner tonight. Simple & delicious~ It's a very good way of cooking up a delicious meal using leftover rice!

Haven't blogged for a long while now. And since my writing skill isn't very good, i'll let pictures do the talking :) I hope I'll get iPhone4 soon so that i'll be able to take more photos using its 5megapixels camera (i'm currently using my sis' Nokia e71 3.2 megapixel camera =.=).

Exploring Eastwood

I haven't been cooking lately, which means I need to eat-out during my lunch breaks at work. Instead of choosing 1 of the countless korean restaurants along the west side of Eastwood (where the office is located), I decided to explore google map to check out other restaurants in the east side of Eastwood. I decided to try this restaurant in the end:


It's around 12 minutes walk from my office to this restaurant. It's famous for its ramen, so I ordered Teriyaki chicken ramen $12.80.



There wasn't plenty of light in where I was sitting, so pls pardon the poor quality photo. In fact, is it just me or does it look like i've got soap bubbles in the ramen? lol~ Got my ramen within 10 minutes, a little longer than wht other japanese restaurants would normally take to serve out their dishes, but it's rather reasonable. But I soon realised that most of the online reviews were right: the food tastes good.... but they took ages to serve the dishes!! 2 middle-aged ladies at the next table had already finished their ramen before their gyoza was being served to them!! (=_=)

Eastwood town centre:


It's my first time exploring the east side of Eastwood... only to find that it's so much more developed than the side of eastwood where my office is located!! I didn't go into the small shopping centre but I caught a glimpse of woolworths and bing lee. The top 4 banks are also located in this town centre too! I couldn't resist a cold drink on a hot day, so I grabbed Easyway on my way back to the office :P

Railway tracks @ Eastwood station:


I can't wait to go back to the town centre again the next time I don't bring my lunch to work :P

On a separate occasion, I had this Nasi lemak from Jimmy's recipe @ TGV:


Personally, i think it could've tasted better. Huge mountain of rice, but they could've given more curry sauce and other stuffs at the side. Perhaps their Laksa are more yummy.

Korean grape candy that i've been looking for:


Somehow, i didn't enjoy eating it as much as before because it leaves an after-taste that makes me thirsty all the time.