Dim Sum at Tim Ho Wan

As some of you may already know, a new michelin star restaurant has opened its doors here in Singapore a couple of months back. Yeap you guessed it right, its Tim Ho Wan. This is rated as the cheapest one-michelin star restaurant yet! Now if you weren’t around to witness the grand opening, let me fill you in. Oh man, the queue was insane! Like literally! The line was in spirals and it extended all the way to the outside of the restaurant (no i’m not exaggerating).

(I’m not Kidding)

As much as i love food and i would always want to try new types of food whenever i could, i couldn’t be bothered to wait in line just to taste it. I could have just starve to death in that line! Hahahaha….. The main reason for the long queue was probably because of the limited seating space inside of the restaurant itself. I think the maximum capacity of the place at one time is about 100pax. So yeah…..

Now that the big fuss was gone and everyone had their try, i also got mine with my friends (3 of us). Even though the queue wasn’t as excessive as the picture on top, we still have to wait in line for about 45-60 minutes. But oh well, for food we will! 😛

There wasn’t a wide array of menus to choose from however it was sufficient. The menu range from the normal congee, chee cheong fun, ha kao, siu mai, lo mai gai (steamed glutinuous rice in lotus leaf) and the typical menus you’ll find in any other dim sum house. You’ll probably understand better with the aids of pictures. So let’s begin!

Here we have the century egg congee. To me it was just normal congee. But maybe it was also because i was never really a big congee fan. 😛

This is the Lo Mai Gai. To me it was quite flavorful. The aroma was there, filling was generous and definitely yummy.

They had two types of chee cheong fun. And sure enough we ordered both. This one was filled with char siew.

And this one was filled with yummy fresh shrimps! The amount given was very generous. You can really feel the shrimp in every bite!

The carrot cake in my opinion was a little bit disappointing. The flavor wasn’t there, and it tasted like it was still quite uncooked.

If you love ha kao, siu mai and shrimps. Please please be sure to order these! You will NOT be disappointed. I was seriously blown away. It was so delicious. Probably one of the best i ever tasted. No joke. Did i mention that you can really taste the fresh, sweet and crispy shrimp?

Osmanthus Jelly. It was my first time to ever taste it. So im not so sure how its supposed to taste like. But i liked it. That’s all i know. LOL

And finally, the main star, the signature dish of the restaurant. Other restaurant have their pao steamed but at tim ho wan, they bake it. Yeah! baked. So you get this beautiful golden brown and crispy crust and center filled with char siew. I went there twice. The first time i ate it, the filling was very sweet! So sweet that it just might be a dessert. The second time around, it was savory and hence my confusion arises. If anyone ever tried it, please help me clear up my dilemma.

Well, that’s the end of this post. Bye and take care! 🙂 see y’all in the next post.

Making a Comeback…

Hi all. I know i haven’t posted anything up in a really really long time. I was too lazy and i just let this blog of mine dust away. But all that’s going to change! I’m determined to blog more now. All thanks to a friend of mine (who won’t be mentioned here cause the person will feel to proud) hahaha….

Anyway just to briefly summarize what’s up with my life all these while, i was unemployed for a few months, but now i’m taking up a Diploma in Pastry and Baking in Shatec Institute (Singapore). Yups! So yeah, expect to see a whole lot more of cakes. 🙂

So here are a few of the stuffs that i have made thus far!

Mixed Berry Chilled Cheesecake

Chocolate Mousse Cake

Bavarian Mousse Cake

Carrot Cake

All right, that’s all that i’m showing you for this post. But i promise to you i will post more often! So i’ll see you guys soon! Bye.

Mud Cake

There are days when you just have cravings for something. It could be sweet, sour, savory or bitter perhaps? Whatever it is, we won’t be satisfied till we feast ourselves with it. In my case, i’m craving for chocolate! Delicious dark chocolate..oh dear me. So right away i made myself a batch of chocolate mud cake.

It’s so delicious and soft and moist. I can finish the whole cake! But i shouldn’t! 😉

All about pink!

A few weeks back a friend of mine was having her birthday so being a good friend, i made her a batch of birthday cupcakes.  Knowing that she loves pink and hello kitty, i based the whole theme on it and basically this is how it turns out. I used fondant for this and plain vanilla cupcakes as the base!

What do you think? Good enough? 🙂

Anyway i’ve tried my best….so hope you guys like it! 😀

Banana Brownie~

So this morning i wake up and i literally just felt like baking. Right away. And so i did. It took me like half an hour to decide what to bake and in the end i decided to make these baby! Banana brownies. Oh my god. Let me just tell you. It smells awesome, taste amazing, looks delectable. I just can’t stop eating it. Whoever started the combination of chocolate and banana should really get an award. Cause it is seriously the best thing ever! They’re like a match made in heaven! ❤

Velvet Touch

Unsatisfied with the last batch of red velvet that i made, i decided to make another batch! This time in the shape of a cake. Well now it’s slightly fllufy and moist so that’s good. As for the frosting i did not change it cause it was pure heaven. My next batch will follow up soon! I will not rest until i get the right recipe for it!

A Thousand Layers

Vanilla Mille Crepes. Mille is a french word and it literally translates to ‘thousand’. So as its name suggests, this is a cake made of many layers of crepes. Every layer of crepe is coated with delicious cream. Served with strawberry coulis. Its just pure heaven. The balance of sweet and sour. No words can describe it!

 

Mini Tartlets

What’s that you ask? Well i’ll tell you what. These are my bite-sized version of lemon meringue pies! Instead of making the big pies, which is so overrated, i made these gorgeous things instead! They’re delicious and good-looking. What more can one ask for?

 

Green Tea Madness!

It was mom’s birthday a couple of weeks ago. Instead of buying a birthday cake for her, i thought it would me more meaningful if i baked one by myself. And so that’s exactly what i did. I actually intended on making a green tea opera cake. However, that certainly didn’t happen. Haha… got to practise more on my skills! 🙂 Anyway happy birthday mommy! She loved the cake by the way! 😀 

Sweet as sugar!

I learnt another handy tool in college. Sugar pulling! That’s right, the sugar is first boiled to a precise temperature with glucose and food colouring. It is then pulled to achieve the elasticity and then shaped to however we want it to be.

Double-coloured spirals!

 

Feeling Blue?

At the end, we needed to come up with a small piece individually. So there i was nicely creating it. Like 30minutes before class ended, when i was assembling all the pieces together, a friend of mine just decided to crash land on my piece. Like come on! You have got to be kidding me!

So in the end i had to create another one with all the time left. Which is why it was a bit messy cause i was rushing. I’m just glad i still have time to make another one, even though its not so nice.