Sugar Desert House

During last Mid-autumn Festival, my husband and I was meeting an old friend of mine who has married to Hong Kong. We had dinner together and it was a great time to being with a friend who is coming from Malaysia too. It felt different.

However, even I had bought my camera with me, I couldn't take any good picture during the dinner cause the lighting of the restaurant too red and I'd missed taking picture of most of the served food, I was too exciting having conversation with my friend.

After dinner, we went to a desert house. We had ordered 4 kind of deserts.

Chocolate Ice-cream.

Mango pudding.

Chocolate Ice-cream with waffle.

Lastly, 心太軟．Overall, the desert served not outstanding. But there were some photo of superstars with desert house owner on the wall. =)

Sugar Dessert House
Shop G2, G/F, Delite Mansion, 3 Granville Circuit, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.

Thai Perfect

I must admit that thinking about what to eat dinner is really most headache matter of my life. I always push the question back to my husband whenever we met after work. Since I was cooking for couple of days in this week, therefore, was his turn to decide what to eat yesterday night.

He suggested Thai Perfect at Causeway Bay. That was the 2nd time we have visited this restaurant.　Nice decoration can be found in this restaurant.

Space for customers who come in big group.

Very Thai-ish decoration.

The menu.

We had ordered 2 dishes. 1st was Thai starter consist of spring roll, deep fried fish cake and deep fried prawn cake. 2nd dish was Thai tomato fried rice.

Thai Perfect
Shop R3, 8/F, Island Beverley, 1 Great George Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Rum Raisin Cheesecake

6-inch Round cake (5-6 servings)

250 g cream cheese
2 eggs
3 tbsps sour cream
1/4 cup (20g) sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsps dries raisins
1 1/5 tbsps rum

Crust

90 g digestive biscuits
60 g melted butter

Instructions

1. Soak the raisins in rum overnight.
2. Crush the digestive biscuits. Mix with melted butter and stir well. Press the mixture into the botton of a round cake mould lined with parchment paper.
3. Beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar and mix well. Add sour cream and mix again.
4. Add one egg after another and whisk well after each addition. Stir in lemon juice and raisins. Pour the cheese batter into the cake mould over the crust.
5. Bake in pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for 1 hour until the surface turns golden.

Tips

Do not over-stir the cheese, it will cause the cheesecake crack after baked. Enjoy!

Sambal Petail and Prawn

This is a very easy dish to cook. But the most important thing is, I found petai in HK!! My cooking way is a bit different than the way I used to eat in my hometown.

This dish just using 3 ingredients to cook. Fry petai and prawn seperately in a hot pan for a short while. Heat up oil and saute chopped shallots,garlic and chilli paste until fragrant. Add prawns,petai and bring to a slow boil. Add in some sugar and salt to taste.

Jean-Paul Hevin Chocolatier

I was went to Causeway Bay to window shopping 2 weeks ago and saw a shop in Time Square selling a irresistible food. I couldnt control myself and walked into the shop. Those chocolate were laying in sequence in transperant counter and I was drooling when I looked at them. Therefore, without hesitate, I had bought it.

I bought 10 small pieces of truffles chocolate. 5 of them covered with cocoa powder, another 5 were covered with sweet sour powder which I cannot remember the name.

I had bought a caramel macaroon too. This macaroon was just a single mouth snack. All of these chocolate had cost me $200. Well, I guess this will be my first and the last time to taste such expensive chocolate.

Jean-Paul Hevin Chocolatier
Shop 212, Ocean Centre, Harbour City, 17 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Shop 309, Times Square,1 Matheson St, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Oat Bran Apple Raisin Muffins

5 servings

Ingrdients

- 80 grams all-purpose flour

- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

- 1/16 teaspoon soda powder

- 2 tablespoon oat bran

- 1 egg

- 60 grams brown sugar

- 60 grams apple (peeled, cored and chopped)

- 50 ml low fat milk

- 4 tablespoon vegetable oil

- 2 tablespoon raisins

Instructions

1. Preheat oven with 180 degrees for 15 minutes.

2. Stir together flour, baking soda powder and oat bran.

3. In another bowl, stir together egg and brown sugar until smooth. stir in milk , oil and apple.

4. Stir in (2) into (3) until combined. Add in raisins.

5. Spoon batter into muffin cups evenly. Baked in preheat oven for 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

This muffins come out not too dry and not too sweet. Enjoy!

Creamy Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients:

- 1.5 pounds (1 kg) cubed fresh pumpkin
- 3 cups chicken stock
- 1/4 cup (3 tablespoon) chopped onions
- 1/2 clove garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon basil leave
- 3 tablespoon whipping cream
- black pepper and salt to taste

Directions:

1. Fry onion and garlic with olive oil until soft. Put in cubed pumpkin to fry for 1-2 minutes.
2. Cover with chicken stock and bring to a boil. Turn the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
3. Process the soup in blender until smooth.
4. Return to pan and bring to a boil again. Reduce the heat and simmer for another 30 minutes un covered.
5. Stir in whipping cream and turn the heat off.
6. Pour into soup bowl and garnish with fresh parsley.