Fluffy Fruity Pancake

Nothing beats a healthy nutritious breakfast on weekend morning. I love to prepare hearty breakfast for family as it is the most important meal in a day. So I always make my point not to skip breakfast. Kids love pancakes..topped with strawberry sauce, maple syrup, a slab of butter and fruity goodness. Oh oh and ya, not to miss out sprinkle of icing sugar.

Here is the recipe of fluffy pancakes:

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 large egg
• milk, just enough to make pourable batter
• 2 tablespoons of cooking oil

 

Directions

1. In a small bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Combine the egg, milk and vegetable oil; stir into dry ingredients and mix lightly to blend.
2. Pour batter by 1/4 cupful onto a butter greased hot griddle. Turn when bubbles form on top of pancakes; cook until the second side is golden brown.
3. Serve immediately with your favourite sauce (maple/strawberry/chocolate) and fruity toppings. Voila! Enjoy your hearty fluffy pancakes!

Tung Lok Seafood

It was a weekday evening, when I had to stay back a little while at work place. Hence hubby came to fetch me after work. As we were both famished and thinking hard where to dine, we ended up at Tung Lok Seafood at Arena Country Club as it was near to our working places, which also means we can avoid massive jam during peak hours when everybody is rushing back home from work or looking for spots to dine out in city area.

I was sipping a cool refreshing honey aleo vera drink.

A die-hard fan of freshly sliced sashimi.....:D

We love kapachi aka yellow tail sashimi the most as its flesh is firmer than salmon.

Coffee roasted pork ribs...very intense coffee flavour and slightly overly sweet....for coffee lovers. But I still prefer their lemongrass baked ribs...

Our appetizer: Raw live oysters on bed of crushed ice...

Very tantalizing looking fresh oysters....slurppp...

My favourite green: Sambal belacan stir fried sweet potato leaves

Beancurd with crab meat and fish maw....love this dish

Deep fried wasabi prawn...those prawns were humongous and crunchy!

Very satisfying to scoff a fat raw oyster...:)

We had traditional monk jump over the wall rice dumpling and Tung Lok XO rice dumpling. Inside the XO dumpling, comprising of pork belly, conpoy, mung beans, dried prawns, and topped with savoury XO sauce. Though the dumplings were pricey but the goodness of the ingredients were worth to try. 

Monk Jump Over The Wall Rice dumpling, wrapped in lotus leaf: served with supreme ingredients of braised pork, conpoy, shark fins, whole abalone, dried fish maw, and Spanish ham....is simply irresistable!

IPPUDO....where I fell in LUV wif RAMEN

Me decked out in a very retro look on a fine Sunday.

Weekends are the most quality time when families can congregate, have outings, shopping and eating out together. I have fetish on ramen or Japanese food lately. We spend most of our weekends in Orchard. So we decided to have ramen in a renowned ramen eatery in Mandarin Gallery, needless to say the Ippudo. The Lawry's Prime Rib is just next door, where I have patroned not long ago. Long Q snaking outside the Ippudo entrance as everyone wishes to try on their very very much popular ramen.

People were seen encircling a table top at the entrance, where waiting patrons can flip through their menus, so that they can decide and have their orders taken down almost immediately once they were seated.

Some cam-whoring while hubby was in the Q. We waited for about 20 minutes before we get a table. Waiting during lunch was not as bad as dinner time. Allow yourself a longer waiting time if you visit in the evening.

They received TOP 10 Ramen Eateries Award.

Ippudo outlets all over Japan, some in US and Singapore.

Hubby was engrossed looking at the menu.

The very classic and elegant decor inside Ippudo. I love the chandelier.

The comic featured wall, so cute, but why the words were in Chinese not Japanese? The pictures showed how great their ramens are.

The lemony coke...keep the thirst at bay on hot Sunday noon.

Kid's ramen: Shiromaru Motoagi, original recipe tonkatsu soup served with thin noodles, Rosu Chasu (pork loin), cabbage, kikurage, and spring onion. Smooth yet classic Hakata style ramen.
Kids added on semi runny yolk boiled eggs for $2 each.

Hubby's ramen: Karage-Men, original Ippudo's pork broth with special spicy miso and ground pork.

My ramen, Ippudo's original refined modern-style ramen: Akamaru Kasaneaji, enhanced with Ippudo's special blended miso paste and fragrant garlic oil. Served with thin noodle, Buta Bara ( pork belly), kikurage, and spring onion.

This was so HEAVENLY good. I will never eat Ajisen anymore. If I have plenty of time to spare, I don't mind to Q for a bowl of yummylicious ramen. The soup base and the ramen texture are all done to perfection! The portion was just right, not too much until you have to stuff and leave your tummy with no room for other appetizers.

 Tamago...my princess's favourite.

This was very yummy too, which they boast as 'Addictive Chicken Wing', deep fried chicken wings with special made sauce, with dashes of black pepper and Japanese pepper.

Slurping down the whole bowl of ramen sparing not even a drop of its soup base.

A blissful me, just to have Ippudo's ramen....AAHHHH

Ippudo @ Mandarin Gallery

333A Orchard Road
#04-02/03/04
Singapore 238867

Was supposed to catch a movie of Kung Fu Panda, but is yet to release. So we will wait a little bit more. But we sure can pose like HIM....Ha

Me resting on my pinky lappie. That's all for now....have a great weekend too!

Happy Vesak Day

Today is Vesak Day where buddhists will spend a meaningful day chanting and praying in temples. My initial plan was to wake up 7a.m. for a morning jog, then head to Red Star in Chinatown for dim sum before going to temple. But everything was not according to the plan. Hubby and I had late supper in Bedok which is at the other end of Singapore, quite a distance away from where we stay. We ended up hitting the sacks around 1 midnight. Hence, overslept until almost 8 plus in the morning. So we went to Mc Donald to fix our breakfast, which the kids love to have their hotcakes. Though I still prefer my own version of pancakes. So stay tune for my recipe on lip-smacking pancakes recipe topped with berries and fruits.

On top is a picture of me just returning back from the temple, with a string tied on my wrist by a monk.

My family went to Zu Lin Temple around Bukit Batok, for prayer, in conjunction of Vesak Day.

After burning incense and praying, we queued up to have our blessings and bathing the Amitabha. It was a long Q.

People queing to bath the Amitabha

Make donation before your turn to bath the Amitabha.

Bathing ritual was taking place on the stage.

The last step was to get blessings and a string tied on wrist by monk.

Bought a water lily wind chime, to write down wishes and good fortune as well as luck throughout the year.

One can buy a Lotus shaped candle as offering to the God, during a praying ritual.

We had vegetarian bee hoon and curry in the temple before going back home.

Wishing all Buddhists, Happy Vesak Day......