Fried Fish Balls?

Yes, they do look like fried fish balls... but they're not. They're actually sesame* balls (or 煎堆 in Chinese) with peanut and grated coconut fillings.

p/s: My chef did not coat them with sesame seeds. ;p

Sweet & Spicy Fish Crackers

If you like sweet and spicy snacks, I'm sure you will like these fish crackers from Malaysia:

Keropok Sira

As the ingredients (Tepung Ubi, Ikan, Minyak sayuran, Garam, Gula & Lada) are written in Malay language, I have no idea of what the ingredients are except for "Ikan" and "Gula" which I understand as "Fish" and "Sugar" respectively. Maybe someone can help me? :)

It Meows #47 - Fish Muruku

One of my favourite snacks - fish muruku!

Fish Muruku - front packaging

Fish Muruku - back packaging

Fish Muruku - 8 mini packs

Fish Muruku

What are your favourite snacks?

Sweet Puffed Bee Hoon Crackers

Sweet Puffed Bee Hoon Crackers

Last time I have mentioned about the Sweet Puffed Rice Crackers which many Hakkas love.

Here is another version of these tasty snack: Sweet Puffed Bee Hoon Crackers, which use Rice Vermicelli instead of rice!

Happy Easter

Easter "Eggs" in a Supermarket


Happy Easter to all who celebrate it!

Easter Goodies:

Sweet Puffed Rice Crackers

Last week, I mentioned about the Hakkas eating Lei Cha with puffed rice and Marites commented about sweet puffed rice balls... This reminds me of the sweet puffed rice crackers which are also one of the Hakkas' all time favourite snacks.

Sweet Puffed Rice Crackers

These crackers are made of ingredients including puffed rice, sugar, maltose, dried orange peels, roasted peanuts and sesame seeds.

CNY Special - VIII

For today's CNY Special (VIII edition) writeup, I will present some new snacks and drinks which I have bought for CNY celebration this year.

1. Brown Sugar Sweet Potato

They're very sweet since the ingredients consist of sweet potato, maltose and brown sugar!

2. Cheese Corn Sticks

Produced in Indonesia, this is a newly launched snack in Singapore. Unlike most cheese flavoured snacks, this corn snack is not so salty. There are 3 flavours, namely Roasted Corn, Cheese and Chocolate. Bought the cheese flavour ones since I like savoury snacks.

3. Mango Nastar Rolls

Have not tried these yet. Unlike the pineapple nastar rolls, these are new to many people. For those who like mangoes, these will certainly delight them!

4. Roasted Sunflower Kernel

Produced in Thailand, there are 3 flavours, namely Original, Seaweed and Thai Style. As I like spicy snacks, I bought the Thai Style flavour ones which contain anchovy.

5. Apple & Jasmine / Pear & Osmanthus Drinks

These are not so sweet drinks and they taste just right. There are 2 flavours, namely Apple & Jasmine and Pear & Osmanthus. Recommendation: Apple & Jasmine drink.

p/s: This is the last edition of my CNY Special series. Hope you like all the 8 writeups and wish you a Happy Lunar New Year. :)

Prawn Flavoured Tapioca Crackers

My friend bought this prawn flavoured tapioca crackers for me during her recent trip to Taiwan. They're sweet 'n spicy --- just the right taste! Yummy...

Highlights (Coming Soon...)

Chinese New Year (26-27 Jan 2009) is coming soon...In the next few weeks, i will be posting writeups featuring Fashion (衣), Food (食), Accomodation* (住) and Travel* (行) related to Chinese New Year.

Week 12-18 Jan: Food

Week 19-25 Jan: Fashion, Accomodation*, Travel**

Week 26-31 Jan: Food

*Accomodation --> Home Decoration and Furnishing.
**Travel --> Mainly on Sightseeing and Attractions in Singapore.

Hope you can drop by to read the writeups and share the festive joy with me. :)

Chocolates!

Being a chocolate person, besides enjoying the heavenly experience, I'm also interested to know more about chocolates and hence picked up a book from library. Chocolate by Sara Jayne Stanes is a little and easy to read book - perfect for me since I'm a lazy reader. ;p

Here are some interesting info which I have gathered from the book and would like to share with you...

1. Cocoa was first used as a gift by the Mayans (600 BC to AD 800) who used the cocoa beans as a prenuptial acknowledgement between bride and groom.


2. ~ 1518 to 1520s, cocoa bean was even used as a currency ($$$) - e.g. a slave costs 100 beans and a rabbit costs 30 beans.

3. Early consumption of chocolate was in liquid form (cocoa nibs were grounded using a metate and a metalpili, rolled into a lump, grated and then add water) and no sugar (instead, some herbs and spices were added) was added to the drink.

4. In the mid-seventeenth century, the nuns of Puebla in Mexico discovered the idea of adding sugar to cocoa drink.

5. Natural cocoa bean contains around 300 different flavours and 400 separate aromas!

6. Top quality chocolate is made from 70% cocoa solids and 30% sugar and refining was done to reduce the size of the solid particles to less than 20 microns.

Christmas is coming soon! Everywhere I go, I can see lots of chocolates (in different shapes, sizes, flavours...and even organic ones) piling up on the shelves. Have you bought some for Christmas?


Merry X'mas and Have Fun! :)

Halloween 2008

Halloween is coming....Was doing some grocery shopping and saw these cute pumpkins. Which ones do u like? ;)

Also saw these Halloween cookies (15 pieces for ~ SGD9):

Happy Halloween!