What’s your comfort food?

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The weather’s getting colder and it made me think back to when we went out searching for something warm to fill up our bellies. WE ORDERED TOO MUCHHHH.

Let’s learn some chinese! 眼阔肚窄 yan3kuo4du4zhai3. In cantonese we say it a bit differently, but direct translation turns into big eyes, small stomach. Does that give a hint?! Basically feasting with your eyes and forgetting how much the stomach can actually hold :p. We usually say the phrase after we’ve ordered wayyy too much and can’t finish.

I guess the problem is that we always seem to have these cravings later in the night. Luckily Hong Kong 852 (used to be Cafe de Tropika) is open late!

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Simple but yummy dish. Sliced beef balls with udon noodles! For some reason, I absolutely love the texture of udon… I can eat packs and packs of it with only soy sauce (not good ahaha). This dish was slightly saltier than I like though.

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Hot sweet and sour soup!! Our absolute favourite, but out of all places we tried we still think the best one is at Shanghai 456 haha.

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I first tried this on my second time to Hong Kong 852. A really kind family took me here and soon after I fell in love with it! Anyone who has ever came here with me knows I always liked to order this. A beautiful puff pastry sealing a fragrant lobster bisque inside!!! SO YUMMY!

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Ah! Thousand year old egg and salted pork congee. I still have yet a chance to try and make it! You usually use duck or chicken eggs to preserve it and then it takes a combination of lime, ash, clay, and rice hulls to make it. It should take around 4-5 weeks. It has a creamy texture on the inside and on some eggs you can see beautiful snowflake-like patterns on it!

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The Hong Kong style curry beef brisket is a common dish I’d get. Though I wish it was more piping hot when it came out! Mom often scolds me because it’s not necessarily the healthiest dish to always eat.

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This borsch soup came with the curry beef brisket. It’s just a nice vegetable soup. The price is really good though ($14) for soup and a dish.

 

That’s it for today!!!

-Love Mish.

 

A Tiramisu Kind of Halloween!

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Happy Halloween Everyone!!! Eeek! I absolutely cannot wait to take the kiddos out trick or treating!! (And maybe sneak a few candies or two from their baskets).

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I first made tiramisu because it was one of my friend’s favourite desserts! So I tried my best to come up with a recipe that worked for their tastes~ Still experimenting around. Definitely the kind of eggs you have seem to make the difference. AND most important is to not soak your ladyfingers in the coffee and rum mixture for too long or else you’re going to have a very soggy tiramisu.

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I found some passion fruit on sale! I was originally going to put it on the cake… but it really didn’t match so just settled on having it drizzled in the raspberries ahaha. The raspberries worked really well this as it provided that tartness for that contrast with the sweet dessert. Yeah, I made the tiramisu too sweet this time for my liking… BUT it seems like we all liked the hint of rose in the whip cream! 😀

 

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Another angle for your viewing pleasure~

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

-LOVE MISH!!

Cooking Experiments~

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When I start experimenting in the kitchen it’s usually either of the following reasons:

  1. Limited ingredients and need to be creative
  2. I feel inspired! / I’m cooking for someone I care about!
  3. There’s leftovers for days and I need to be creative in mixing it up with something so I don’t get bored

Mostly #3 applies to me the most! Anyone else feeling me? Haha

Let’s show you three of those dishes!

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Roasted butternut squash with Israeli couscous.

This experiment came from the I-don’t-have-much-ingredients-and-need-to-be-creative.

So, if you ever work for this place called Organic Box, what’s amazing is that because they don’t want to waste food, they let their employees take home any leftovers. Parents were ecstatic while it lasted… but it kind of meant they neglected to buy any groceries for a while.

What did we have in the fridge? Tomatoes, some pieces of butternut squash, green peppers and onions. In the pantry we had this Israeli couscous that I decided to try and use.

I roasted the butternut squash with some garlic and peppers before putting it in the pan to fry.

Anyways, at least the fam enjoyed it! Haha.

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This is the leftovers-for-days-so-I-need-to-be-creative dish.

Can you figure out the leftovers?! It’s the spiced chicken wings that I took the tedious task of shredding apart :’D.

I am super excited we had fresh herbs to make the dish! The sauce comes out way more fragrant. Always excited to make some different lunches for the sis!

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Last but not least! When there’s a get-together or I get into the sudden inspiration to cook for my friends (or maybe someone I like), I can’t help but challenge myself to try something I haven’t made before!

This one is extra special to me as the special red soybean miso sauce is from Nagoya, Japan! I’m terrible at deep-frying things, so I worked extra hard in trying to get this right… So many steps you can’t do wrong T^T. Butttt other than the person saying it wasn’t salty enough pffft, I think it was alright :3.

Heh. Look guys. It looks like a fish from up top right?!

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How am I doing?! Do you guys like seeing my homemade creations? Or do you prefer more restaurant postings! I promise the next one will be a restaurant review!

 

Lovu Lovu,

Mish