bread and butter...

I had my uncle's bread maker with me for quite some time already... I had a few rounds of more unsuccessful than successful attempts of baking bread loaves. I had always wanted to bread buns... And I finally got the chance to do it during our king's installation! Thankiew Tuanku!

So we started with the basic hot dog buns! we used the Chinese sweet bun recipe so it will taste like the familiar pasar malam childhood buns that everyone loved

Hot dog buns dough in proofing process

decorating buns and baking

Loved the taste of baked mayonnaise! I never liked mayo in its original taste.. But baked mayo is super nice lor... And it just goes so well with bread.... Mmmmmmm.... Yummy!!!

voila!! Cheers to our first successful attempt to baking buns!

Then we got hooked! And decided to do more sophisticated buns... And we all loved char xiu bao!!! So we tried another 2 recipe we found online which was supposed to produce super soft and fluffy bread!

Prepared the char xiu liu... But it's just enough to do about 12 buns.. So we decided to made sugar butter buns as well just because we have lots of butter and we loved it as well

look at those oozing char xiu bao and the golden brown butter buns!

Of course it looks nice and delicious, unfortunately I have to say we failed on our second round. We tried two recipes. The first came out okay but it's still not that good and the second was a total failure! The buns turned out hard as rock and did not even rise! More of a cookie then fluffy soft bun! :(

So that's our baking spree and we've decided to stick to the first recipe and will improve from there.

All I need to do now is to buy a new oven.

 

Keeping to my resolution

Just installed an application on my iPad called Blogsy. So this is the first post and we'll see if it's easy to use or not... #resolutionaccomplished hah!

And if you realized, it's my iPad!!!!! Hahaha!!! Actually it's baybee's... And he gave it to me... And even bought me the most beautiful iPad cover in the whole universe!

i have a dream

i want to travel all around the world to SHOP at the local supermarkets there!!!!

not just to visit all the interesting places, but to go to the local TESCO, 7-eleven, pharmacy!!
i want to have 2-3 days just for me to shop in all these wonderful places!!!
as i was chatting with my collegue the other day, i noticed i always do one thing whenever i go anywhere, i will definately SHOP!

i do not shop for big brands... but i just like to buy everything under the sun!
all small and cutesy stuff.. things that i use everyday... personal beauty items and LOCAL FOODSTUFF!!

i have been to a few countries and i always find that there are always something that you can buy from other country's local supermarket which is either unique and/or cheaper than malaysia.
let me list of some personal/home/food stuff that i have discovered so far:

Thailand:
instant/cup noodles (tomyum, PORK!!!!!@@), PORK cubes for soup, cheap shampoo (sunsilk etc), sanitary pad (laurier ultra-thin is super cheap lor), Lays potato chips, those chicken/pork floss+rice cracker snacks, atapchi, dried longan

Indonesia:
elipse hair oil (so much cheaper), pirated DVD (up to rm2/pc! ZOMG!), instant noodles (goreng/soup), POP mee, kicap manis ABC

Japan:
skin care, hair care, 100 yen shops(not the shop, but its a must go, so i put it here) cutesy stuff

that's all i can think of so far... if you have any list, please add on ya..

Personalised Gift

AWWWWW... so cute right???

it feels like it was made just for me... which in fact..

IT WAS JUST MADE FOR ME!!!!

pink obsession

these days.. something weird happened to me...
i seemed to have a big crush on pink stuff
and also find hello kitty...cute...

all these started when i saw this mouse on one of those group coupon buys..
and i made yennee buy for me as my Christmas gift!

it was super cute lor!! and then i got addicted!
when i saw this on sale in one of those coupon buys... i did not think twice...
i just bought it immediately! btw, its mosquito repellant if you must ask

and so, i have been craving to buy a calculator for myself....
to be used in office... and maybe at home too, i went and search high and low for it...
saw it in night markets, in hello kitty shops... but i was too kiamsap to buy it...
and then when i had the chance to buy this beauty at a good rate, i bought it right away!!
it was pure esctasy!! like pure sense of achievement!!

and then when i bought the calculator, i could buy some more things at really good prices, i bought this!! hello kitty car shade... as you know, i have just changed car.. and i thought this was really worth it !