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How did I welcome the first day of the year?

For me, it is nothing better than indulging myself in a honeycomb goldrush espreski and brownie with vanilla ice cream!

2011 is going to be awesome!



No complaint on the espreski!

However, the soft chocolate layer on top of the brownie was a little too thick. I still prefer the old brownie which Dome cafe used to serve. The brownie is best to be eaten with vanilla ice cream. Please request the restaurant to heat up the cake before serving.

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31-12-2010

I decided to get out of the bed a bit early on the very last day of the year to experience the streets of Penang. This little walk around is supposed to train my eyes also as a photographer. By going back to the same locations again and again, I need to observe more and try out different angles to look at things around the locations. Sometime I just want to go back to the basic to shoot something which every beginner would try to shoot when they first bought their camera. It makes me feel that I started to learn again and the only reason I am out there is to capture something interesting or beautiful. Even though I only managed to cover one whole street from the beginning till the end of street because of the time constraint, it really made me feel this is the best thing to do before wrapping up 2010. 

Goodbye 2010! It has been a blessed year!

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Nyonya Kuih - Kuih Kochi

The first post of 2011 is about food. I love food, no doubt. My mother is very good at making kuih. Kuih is the Malay word for cakes or pastries. One of the kuih she is good at making is Kuih Kochi. It is a type of Nyonya kuih, I think, which is wrapped with banana leaf. The skin of kuih is made from glutinous rice with pandan flavored and the filling is made from grated coconut with palm sugar flavor. This kuih is best to eat when it is hot because the skin is more tender. 

Throwing in the filling.






The final product.

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