Yam Rice

One of my favourite food is now available as a convenience food (Brand: YAMIE). Although it is simple to make, the taste can't be compared to the ones we find outside, but it does satisfy my cravings for yam rice (with some additional ingredients here and there).

The additional ingredients I add for 2 packets of Yamie Yam Rice are:

1. 1 small yam (diced into small cubes)
2. 3 small red onions (peeled and sliced very thinly crosswise)
   
3. 5 large dried mushrooms (soaked in hot water & diced) *Retain the water for soaking the mushroom as it adds more flavour to the rice*
   
4. 1 chicken breast
5. 2 tbsp of dark soya sauce
6. 2 tbsp of fried shallot oil (Use olive oil for frying)
7. 
   

Method:

1. Heat up 5 tbsp of oil and add shallots to flavour the oil. *It is okay to use more oil here as the shallot oil can be kept for other times*
   
2. Fry the shallots until it is slightly browned and remove it from the oil.
   
3. Leave some of the shallot oil in the pan and shallow fry the yam cubes until it is slightly browned and add the shallots back to fry them together.
4. Heat up 1 tbsp of shallot oil, add in mushroom and stir fry for 2 mins before adding chicken breast to fry for a minute or two till it is almost cooked.
5. Remove Yamie yam rice from packaging and pour into a rice cooker.
6. Add all the pre-cooked yam, mushroom and chicken into the rice, together with 2 tbsp of fried shallot oil, 2 tbsp of dark soya sauce and .
7. Add 620ml of water and 100ml of mushroom water to the rice and you can start cooking your yam rice.
8. Depending on your rice cooker, your rice will be ready in around 12 minutes or so.
9. To serve, sprinkle with spring onion and fried shallots.

Mee Rebus

Bought 6 packets of Mee Rebus sauce from the stall that my cousin is helping out at the food fair and boy does it taste good! The taste was really intense and spicy too. Tried cooking it the other day for Marky's family and it seems like both his parents liked it. His dad ate 3 bowls and his mum said it was pretty good.

Mango Yogurt cheesecake

Here's a picture of my attempt at making Mango Yogurt cheesecake but it was a failure as it tastes more like custard cake... sad =(

I wonder if it's the oven as the oven at Marky's house took forever to bake this cake and still it did not seem very solid after almost 2 hours. (Note that the oven was already set at maximum heat - 250 degree celsius)

I wanna get my own oven but not now as I don't have my own house yet =(

Mee Rebus

Bought 6 packets of Mee Rebus sauce from the stall that my cousin is helping out at the food fair and boy does it taste good!

The taste was really intense and spicy too. Tried cooking it the other day for Marky's family and it seems like both his parents

liked it. His dad ate 3 bowls and his mum said it was pretty good.

Manpuku Japanese Gourmet Town at Tampines 1

This place is really overhyped...I had been wanting to try Botejyu's okonomiyaki for the longest time and when I really tasted it at Manpuku Japanese Gourmet Town at Tampines 1, I was damn disappointed. The texture was nothing to rave about and the taste was just so-so.
















The saving dish was the ramen that Marky ordered. The soup tasted not too bad and the noodles were springy.















The worst has yet to come...before that, look at the pictures...

























































All these beautifully decorated pies had us queuing for probably 20mins just to get our slice of Caramel Banana Fruit Tart and the resulting taste was a huge disappointment! Worse still, we had to pay $7+ for this slice and a cup of tea (The tea was even better than the pie!)
















My verdict: I will just stay off this place for good.