🐉 Year of Dragon | CNY Goodies from An Old Friend

Got a call from one of my old friend (doesn't wants to be named) informing that he has something for me, 

and it turns out to be homemade pineapple tarts.Thin, melt in the mouth crust and pineapple paste is also made from scratch!Supposed to be for CNY, but ... it was all gone within 3 days!

**Update on 07/02/24

Upon learning that I finished the bottle of pineapple tarts, he made 1 more bottle for me, and also gave me a bottle of salted egg fish skin

Ok, now this is safe to last till at least few day into CNY

**Update on 13/03/24

Haha... old friend went HK, gave me 老婆饼 and another bottle of pineapple tarts.

Blessed that after so many years, this old friend still remembers me during CNY

 

Astons City Square | CCWai's Birthday

CCWai's birthday & he has invited me over for a celebration at his work place.

Since it's his birthday, they also use the chance as a team bonding session.Home baked black sesame fruit cake by one of the staff!Happy Birthday, CCWaiAll hiding behind me so that they look smaller 😟

 

SG Homebaker | Ondeh Tarts, by Auntie Ondeh

I've been seeing this on instagram very often & wanted to try but always couldn't get a delivery slot. 

And so, I finally managed to get a delivery slot this round!

The moment I open up the cover, I can immediately smell the gula melaka & pandan flavors. It was very delicious & the crust almost melts in the mouth!I also tried microwaving it for a couple of seconds as recommended, and it was boom cos the gula melaka was like lava, very yummy!

 

Milkfrost Bakes | Air-fried Nian Gao

Le sister has been wanting to eat Fried Nian Gao but as it's towards the end of CNY period, everywhere is out of stock for nian gao

I went to a lot of places & finally found at Chinatown market but the nian gao was kind of moldy. The shop owner didn't want to sell it to me but eventually sold it to me at $5 (instead of $8 shown on the tag) after I assured him that I won't complain or make a big fuss of it since I'm just gonna fry it & not use it for offering to the deities. 

Instead of the traditional method of coating with batter  (cos I don't have a good recipe of good batter) & deep fry (lazy), I use the puff pastry instead.Cut the puff pastry, roll the nian gao in it & into the airfryer at 180* for 10 minsand there it goes!I also tried using popian skin.But boom ... overflow cos the popiah skin a bit too small 😅

I shall stick to using puff pastry or maybe frozen prata next time. Or if you have any good recipe of batter for deep frying, please share with me!

 

Lunch | Date with Meredith

Evelyn & Wayne has been inviting me to their new house and I finally managed to squeeze out a Sunday to visitHaha.. the very cool Halloween costume for Meredith prepared by Evelyn and she is totally in love with it and she even put it on to fight meThe she went to take out her stack of stickers and gave me so many "tattoos"Excited about lunch and forgot to take picture, so remembered to take picture of Evelyn's home-baked brownieHee hee... cos she baked quite a big piece, she gave half to me to bring homeEvelyn also gave a some cute stuffsLaze around for a while at her house before Wayne decided that we should all go out for dinnerSo we went TCC for dinnerWent for window shopping after dinner & Evelyn also bought me a new phone casing.

Thanks Evelyn & Wayne for hosting me the entire day today

TCC

Bugis Junction (Main)

80 Middle Road, #01-92-96 

Bugis Junction, Singapore 188966