Hello Kitty sandwich maker.

Guess what this is?

Yes, this is the Hello Kitty Sandwich maker. I got this from City'super in Hong Kong

Fist you put a piece of bread in.

Then, place the top cover and press lightly on the bread.

You can see the shape of the the kitty.

Place some jam or other ingredient you want in the middle inside the shape of Kitty. 

Place another bread of top of the previous bread.

Place the top mode of the sandwich maker on top of the bread and press hard this time. 

Those two pieces of bread should be press together and now we can place the cutter mode  and press hard.

Now, the Kitty sandwich is almost done.

Yummy Hello Kitty sandwich ready to serve.

Can shake some coco power on top of the mode, this can show the face of Hello Kitty.

Interesting Bamboo Charcoal Peanuts 竹炭花生

Got this bag of peanuts from my friend. She just came back form Taiwan. When I looked at the printing on the bag, it said  竹炭花生, which means Bamboo Charcoal Peanut. Wow! What an interesting ingredient to add to peanut!

To my knowledge, bamboo charcoal are used to purify water, eliminate organic impurities, smells and in some places as an a dehumidifier. This is the first time that I see this ingredient is used on food. 

The peanuts taste a little salty with a crunchy coating. Like the other ordinary peanuts.

Here is the Bamboo Charcoal Peanuts 

Bamboo Charcoal Peanuts out of bag.

You can see there peanut is coated by a coat of charcoal.

Simply Mango a day at the countryside.

Last Sunday, a cold, wet and rainy day. Me and my family visited a Honey Bee farm. Of cause my simply Mango also went with us.

We visited a bee and honey farm first. This is a very small farm most of the Honey are all produced in China. This is on

The sign said " Welcome to Honey Bee Kingdom"

Wow, look at all those little bees.

I think this one wants to squeeze out.

Then, we went to a local dairy farm in Hong Kong. This is a very small local business. There is only 4 cows in the farm. I really don't know where are the other cows?

Hi!

After visiting the bee and dairy farm, we went to a village very close to the Hong Kong and China border. 

The Wan Ancestral Halls.

Local village school.  It has been closed down already.

Inside one of the classrooms.

More classrooms in the building next to the basketball court.

Old village house.

What's cooking! Local villagers still use this stove to cook food.

Look all those fire woods.

After viewing the local village, we went to lunch and then we visit a local herbal tea company.

Mango is standing beside a traditional herbal tea dispenser. There are 4 kids of them.  

Tie Dan - Iron Egg from Taiwan

Tie Dan (鐵蛋) in English is Iron Egg. It is a famous food from Tamsui, Taiwan. One of my friends just came back from Taiwan and brought me a package of Tie Dan.

Reading from the package, this is a hot pepper iron egg.  Iron egg is made from quail egg, which will be stewed repeatedly in spices and air-dried. 

I opened the package and inside there is this vacuum package containing 32 quail eggs (Iron Egg).

 This is what it looks like!

Yes, I just had a bite. Taste good. It is a bit spicy hot and not as hard as the other Iron Egg. It seems that this brand is much better. That's why it says "Taiwan Best" on the front of the package. 


So may be next time if you have a chance to go to Taiwan, remember to try this out.


You can find more info here regarding Iron Egg.

Yummy Fish Ball

Today, my ex-colleague called me and asked me out for lunch. We went to Aberdeen for fish ball noodle. The shop we went to is (山窿謝記魚蛋) Shan Loon Tse Kee Fish Ball. It is famous for its fish ball and deep fried fish meat. We drove all the way to Aberdeen and try this shop because it will close down for good by the end of this month. 

By the time we arrived, this was what we saw. Half the street was packed with people queuing up and visitor taking pictures.

There was a long queue already. We waited around 10 mins.

We ordered 2 bowls of fish ball, deep fried fish meat with rice noodle and a dish of vegetable. 

These are the 2 bowls of fish ball, deep fried fish meat rice noodle plus a dish of vegetable.

In the bowl, there were two kinds of fish balls, 4 are normal  and 1 is deep fried. There are 2 pieces of deep fried fish meat plus some vegetable. We want to have a dish of deep fried fish meat, however they were all sold out for the day! 

After we finished the noodle, we decided to order one more bowl of fish ball.

Yummy!!!! Yummy!!!

Homemade Egg Waffle - Hong Kong Style (雞蛋仔)

Finally the sun is out today. I decided to make some homemade egg waffles. Remember my post New Toy. My hubby bought me a mold for making egg waffles. Egg waffle is a kind of special pancake very popular in Hong Kong. Usually egg waffles are sold on the sidewalks in busy streets.

 This is the mold and is a smaller version than those sold on the street.

OK...it's time to make some waffles. We need to make the batter first. We need.. plain flour, custer powder, baking powder, starch, water, 2 eggs, sugar and evaporated milk.

OK, got them all. Mixed all the ingredients and leave it for an hour in room temperature.

Leave the mixture in a jar so when we cook the waffle, it will be easier to pour in the mold.

First trial - Fail!!!!!! no picture..... too ugly, forgot to take photos.
Second trial..... fail!!!
3rd trial......fail!!!!
4th trial.... fail!!!!
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and after nth times..... finally, it's getting better! But still not good enough.

Too brown.

Getting better!

Look's like the real one.

Ok this is the final piece. 

Yeah! finally not bad, but I need to practice more! Hope you like my Egg Waffle!