chicken with bitter gourd

Whoever love bitter gourd will love this dish. If you realized I cook a lot of stews food using claypot as it add flavour to the dish and is very convenience as you can served the dish straight away in the claypot.

Ingredients:
300 grams of chicken leg or chicken wing
1/2 portion of bitter gourd (cut to slices)
2-3 small chilli padi (remove the seed and cut to slices)
1 onion shallot (cut to slices)
1 tablespoon of black fermented bean
1 tablespoon of oil
1 tablespoon of dark soya sauce

Marinade:
2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
1/2 tablespoon of pepper
2 tablespoons of chinese wine (Hua Tiao)
1/2 tablespoon of sugar

How to:
1. Combine chicken with marinade for at least 30 minutes to 1 hour.
2. In a claypot, heat the oil and stir fry the onion until fragrant.
3. Add the black fermented bean and chilli padi and stir for about 30 second.
4. Then add the chicken and bitter gourd and dark soya sauce together, mix well. 
5. Add the abit of water, mix well , cover the lid and simmer for about 30-45 minutes.

Schluck Steak & Pizza at Kanchanaburi

A good place for western food to recommend. We went to eat at this restaurant " Schluck Steak & Pizza" and ordered the T-bone beef steak and chicken steak. OMG, the food is so nice. The meat is so chewy and tender, best beef I even tried. By the way I am not a beef lover but it made mi fall in love with it.

The gravy for both beef steak and chicken steak is so special and unique. Please please try the food at this restaurant. I love their cake too, so soft.

The price of this meal is 450 baht (less than $20), where in Singapore I could get such a good food at this price.

 interior is so special.

 T-bone is so tender, i seldom eat beef but this is good.

 my chicken steak is good too even though they use breast meat.

spoilt of choices.. end up I order my hubby's favorite black forest cake..

Location of Schluck Steak & Pizza

20/1 Maenumkwai Rd. Thamakham | Muang District, Kanchanaburi 71000, Thailand

map of the place

Z-PORE: instant pore refiner perfecteur immediat pores invisibles

Have try this facial product and I love it as it really refine our pores and it control oil and reduces shine, good for oily skin. Just apply small amount over the areas with visible pores. You can find it at Sasa and airport.

Please use it after your moisturizer (if you not going to put make up). You may use it after your foundation (if you are going to put on make up).

Just apply a small amount over areas with visible pores, this product  you can find it Sasa (Singapore).

You can see the difference:

without the product, you can see the pores very clearly.

with the Z-Pore, it cover the pores instantly.

Exploring Bangkok part 2- Union Mall (Fashion mall) & Central Plaza Lat Phrao

Today is Mike's off day so we decided to go to Bangkok for a day trip. We have decided to go to the Union Mall as I have heard a lot about it that there is a lot of fashionable thing over there and more varieties than Platinum Mall.

We set off from Kanchanaburi at 7am and reached Bangkok at 9.30am, as it was still early we parked our car at nearby Big C supermarket (free parking) and walked over to Union Mall. 

Please note that Union Mall open at 11am so we went to Central Plaza (the shopping mall beside Union Mall) first and look for Cinema. Long time never watch English Movie so we decided to watch GI. Joe 2 at Central Plaza and it cost 200 Baht (less than SGD$8) each for good spacious seat. The movie is abit disappointing but still not too bad. Kindly note that watching movie in Thailand, there is a short clip on the King and please stand up when you see that as this is their practice over there.

There is Krispy Kreme at the mall, so please get it when you are there. Please try the original Glazed donuts.

  

We walked pass a dessert shop call "after you Dessert Cafe", there are a lot of people standing in front of the shop taking queue number. We also went to take the number, we waited for approx. 45 minutes until our number is being called.

The lava cake is so soft and the chocolate is not so sweet. Nice. Please try it when you are there.

There are other outlets too.

Those people who love Platinum Mall, you will love Union Mall. The shop layout is about the same as Platinum Mall but is more spacious walkway. There are a lot of varieties (fashion, shoes, bags, make up and even IT stuff) as compared to Platinum Mall, you will not see the same thing all over the mall. It is more expensive as this is not a wholesale mall but the clothes there is so pretty. As I do not really need to dress up here so I give up a lot of clothes that I LOVE.. It is quite big and has a lot of shops that you may shop here for a day.

Location of Union Mall

54 Lat Phrao Road, Chom Phon, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900

You can take the MRT to Phahon Yothin station as it is beside the MRT.

Map- indicate Union Mall

Location of Central Plaza

Ho Wang, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand

You can take the MRT to Phahon Yothin Station as it is beside the MRT.

Map- indicate Central Plaza

Is shrimps time...

During Mike friends' stay at our house, I have cooked 2 shrimp dish on 2 different days. Both dishes received good comments so I would want to share with you all.

1st dish (stir fired shrimp with chilli and spring onion)

Ingredients:
12 shrimps or prawn (depend on you)
2 stalks of spring onion (cut to thin slices)
2-3 spoons of dark soya sauce
3 small chilli (cut to thin slices)
5 small onion (cut to thin slices)

How to:
1. Put some salt on the shrimps before fry.
2. In a pan, heat oil and stir fry the onions.
3. Add the shrimps and stir until 3/4 cooked.
4. Then add the dark soya sauce, chilli and spring onion together, mix well. 
5. Cover the lid and simmer for about 2-3 minutes.

2nd dish (shrimps with lot of garlic)

Ingredients:
12 shrimps or prawn (depend on you)
1 stalk of spring onion (cut to thin slices)
lots of garlic (chopped or grinded)


Marinade:
2 spoons of chinese wine
1 spoon of light soya sauce
1 spoon of sesame oil


How to:
1. Cut a opening on the shrimps shell (as shown in the picture)
2. Mix the garlic with the marinade.
3. Stuff the garlic on the opening of the shrimp.
4. Put the spring onion on top of the shrimp and put to steam for 5 minutes.

Pork with lot of onions....

These 5 days I have being cooking for Mike and his friends as his friends stay at our house for 5 days due to Song Kran festival (water festival). Ha ha as they are my guinea pig to taste my cooking. Sorry that some of my food is abit salty as I overlook the amount of salt and the salted soya bean. Sorry about that.

Today I cook this pork belly with lot of onions and it received good comments so this is one of the successful dishes.

This is created by my mother in law and everyone love it. so please try it and give comments.

Ingredients:
300 grams of pork belly
2-3 packets of onions (chopped into thin slices) that is enough to cover the entire pork belly when cooking
3 spoons of dark soya sauce

Marinade:
2 spoons of oyster sauce
1 teaspoon of pepper
1 teaspoon of sugar

How to:
1. Combine pork belly with marinade for at least 1 hour.
2. In a pot, heat oil and stir fry the onions.
3. Add the pork belly and stir until cooked.
4. Then add the dark soya sauce together, mix well. 
5. Cover the lid and simmer for about 30-45 minutes.

sorry if it look unpleasant but it really taste good. 

Pork Noodle at Kanchanaburi (K Town)

When I explore good food at Kanchanaburi, I will also let you all know about it.

I am sitting at one of the cafe ( Cafe de' PARADISO) drinking mango smoothie while waiting for Mike's friend. During the Song Kran festival, we saw people pouring water at people with pail of water and water gun, this is their tradition to do it once a year. Everyone is having fun even though people pour water on them.

mango smoothie

After meeting his friend, Mike bring me to this small cafe which just serve pork noodle either dry or soup noodle. It is quite run down, if Mike did not bring me in, I will not step in. But after I taste it, it is really nice and it cost about 30-40 baht. Please try it when you at Kanchanaburi.

Pork noodle at K Town: the soup is so nice, full of pork taste and meat ball is chewy, love it.

Location:

U Thong 2 Soi, Mueng Kanchanaburi, Kanchanaburi

open from 7am to 6pm