Pompompurin Cafe (布丁狗餐厅) is the first Sanrio character cafe in Singapore follow by Hello Kitty Orchard Garden which is located at Changi International Airport (terminal 3, arrival hall). Pompompurin or aka Purin is a big yellow coloured dog who wears his trademark brown beret. This newly setup cafe is located at level four of Orchard Central Mall and the queue starts to form even way before it opens at 11am.
Overall our impression of the cafe on our first visit was quite neutral. Despite of the waiting time (the queue and serving time for food), average food and price I think the cafe is still an insta-worthy place if you are looking for something different.
Hello everyone! What are you busying this weekend? Time flies when I am drafting this post on our first visit to the Geylang Serai Hari Raya Bazaar (also known as Ramadan Bazaar @ Geylang Serai) last weekend. The bazaar is definitely huge with about 800 stalls selling things from local street to fusion food & beverages, clothing, carpets, accessories and more.
The Geylang Serai Hari Raya Bazaar is running daily from now until 06 July 2016 with most of the stalls opening from 5.00pm till late in the evening. The area is accessible by car with parking lots at the HDB carparks or by public transport to Paya Lebar MRT station (walk towards Sims Avenue).
Happen to chance upon this miniature DIY food kit while exploring a Japanese 100 yen (S$2 shop) known as Tokutokuya. This shop has many interesting household and food stuffs imported from Japan with most of the items pricing at S$2 unless otherwise stated. The miniature food kits which the boy spotted are from Kracie and they come in different designs like hamburgers, sushi, pancake, donuts and etc for your selection.
The pizza kit which we bought can make two 6cm size pizza, four cute face potato cake and a cup of grape soda. Although the end product might be too small to fill the tummy but the boy enjoys the making process as well as a fun experience of owning a pizza shop.
At first we are quite hesitate to try the finishing products (still not very convincing that it is edible) but when the curious boy give it a try he said it actually taste like "real pizza" and finished everything in less than 5 minutes. So if you are keen, do grab a box of this Kracie DIY kit and start making your own “magical” treats by simply follow the easy instructions.
Ingredients:
1. tray for mixing potato & dough
2. tray for mixing sauce & cheese
3. smiley face mould for potato
4. measuring cup
5. soda serving cup
6. pizza box
7. pre-mix for pizza
Method:
1. Cut the provided plastic container into four separate pieces shown above.
2. Pour potato powder (yellow sachet) into mixing tray (no.1) then use the triangle cup (no. 4) to add in two cups of water and mix well to form a paste.
3. Next transfer the mixture into happy faces tray (no. 3), smooth the top with some force to get a deep print of the features.
4. Either microwave the potato (with the tray) for 40 seconds using 500 Watt power (or oven toaster for 3 minutes; without the tray). When done cut it into four separate pieces and set aside.
5. Put dough powder (orange sachet) into the large mixing tray (no. 1) then using the triangle cup add in 4 cups of water and mix them well to form a paste.
6. Gently knead the dough for a minute then divide it into 2 dough and shape them into a 6cm round Pizza dough.
7. Put cheese powder (green sachet) into the small mixing tray (no. 2) then use the triangle cup to add in 1 cup of water and mix them well. Roll the dough into a long oblong then cut it into small pieces and set aside.
8. Put tomato sauce powder (brown sachet) into the small mixing tray (no. 2) then use the triangle cup to add in 2 cups of water and mix them well.
9. Add sausage powder into the large mixing tray (no. 1) then use the triangle cup to add in 2 cups of water and mix them well. Transfer sausage mixture back into the orange sachet.
10. Spread tomato sauce on pizza dough, add cheese then snip off the bottom corner of the sausage mixture sachet and squeeze the sausage mixture on the dough.
11. Put Pizza in a microwavable plate then microwave it for 1 minute using 500 watt power. After baking the Pizza, put the toppings (blue sachet). Alternately you can bake it using toaster oven for 2-3 minutes.
12. Lastly empty grape soda powder (purple sachet) into the drinking cup (no. 5) then add water (half filled with water or else mixture will overflow when soda powder is added) and mix well.
Here is a quick demo on making this miniature pizza.
"Eat with your hands and don't be shy" is the slogan for today's post. Although I am not a huge seafood fans but I always wanted to find an opportunity to try boiled seafood in bag which is quite popular get-together dish in Singapore where you can enjoy with a group of friends. With that in mind, I replicate this Cajun Seafood Parcel by seasoning the ingredients with Cajun spices, wrap and bake until cooked.
We love the sauce underneath which was flavourful and pack with hint of sweet, spicy & buttery taste. Oh ya make sure you remember to toss the mixture with the sauce before serving to enhance the flavour.
Recently due to the new Angry Birds movie it seems to bring back memories for those who love its related mobile game on those battles between the birds and green pigs. And with that fast food chain restaurants in Singapore are selling Red Angry Birds Burgers and Spicy Nuggets in conjunction of the movie too.
As for me in order to surprise my boy who is one of the Angry Birds fans, I made him these cute Angry Birds Rice Burgers together with some related design fruit cutouts as a reward for his good performance in mid-year school exam.
ANGRY BIRDS RICE BURGER (愤怒鸟米汉堡)
Making these rice burgers might seems a bit tedious from base on the steps shown below because instead of using artificial food colouring, I made my own natural food dye from baked beetroot and pumpkin. I am sure the extra steps taken are definitely worth the effort consider the benefits of your loved ones. As for the shaping of the characters, I think generally you don't need much skills but rather more on time and patient which will be of great help.
Ingredients:
1.5 cup uncooked rice
3 boneless chicken leg
3 slices sandwich cheese
2 small beetroot
150g pumpkin cubes
3 eggs
Sides & Garnishing:
Romaine lettuce
1 small tomato
Japanese mayonnaise sauce
carrot & seaweed sheet
kiwifruit & watermelon, optional
Method:
1. Peel the outer skin of beetroots, rinse and cut one of it into slices and the other into cubes.
2. Lightly season pumpkin and beetroot (place in separate container or baking dish) with extra virgin olive oil then baked in preheated 180°C (356°F) oven (toaster oven or airfryer can be used) about 25 minutes or until beetroot is soft when tested with a fork.
3. While baking the beetroot prepare the rice using rice cooker. Add enough water (same water level as per normal cooking), 1 tablespoon coconut milk (or 1/2 teaspoon organic coconut oil), pandan leaves and lemon grass. Give it a quick stir and cook until rice is done.
4. Place cooked pumpkin and beetroot cubes into two separate bowls. Using the back of a spoon mash them into paste then add in about 10 tablespoons of cooked rice to each bowl and mix till it form red and yellow rice.
5. Using some clingwrap divide the coloured rice into pumpkins and beetroot balls (2 each colour) then use 2 tablespoons of plain rice to make two small white balls.
6. Next shape the beetroot balls into 0.5cm thick round patty (you can use the help of round sushi mould). Flatten and assemble one of the white rice ball on bottom 1/3 area of the beetroot rice patty to form the stomach of the Angry Bird (refer to the related photo or video).
7. As for the pumpkin rice balls, shape them into two triangles then assemble the other white rice balls on the bottom to form the stomach of the yellow Angry Birds. (you can use 1 tablespoon of the rice coloured rice; roll into thin strips to form the eyebrows instead of using seaweed sheet)
8. Lastly assemble the facial features by using sliced cheese, seaweed sheet and carrot then wrapped the rice patty with clingwrap while working on other ingredients.
9. Preheat oil in a wok or frying pan, deep-fried chicken cutlets until golden brown and meat is cooked (remove chicken from the fridge at least 10 minutes before cooking). Related recipe on preparing the chicken cutlet (or chicken wings) can be found at this link here.
9. To serve, place one of the beetroot rice patty on plate; top with lettuce, cheese, chicken cutlet, mayonnaise sauce, beetroot, tomato plus another layer of rice patty (with angry bird features). You can add some some salad made with lettuce, hard-boiled egg / fried egg, baked pumpkin or beetroot together with fresh fruits.
To make cute angry birds character fruit cutout you can use related cookie cutters or free hand with the help of toothpicks or knife.
Here is a close-up look of our Red Angry Bird Rice Burger; love the beautiful red obtain from the beetroot without any adding of artificial colouring.
A demo clip on how to prepare Angry Birds Rice Burger with natural food colouring.
Lastly hope you like this post on Angry Bird Rice Burgers which you can try out with your kids during weekend. For more angry birds bento ideas, you can check out the link here. Till then have a great week ahead.
It has being a long time since my last food art on cartoon characters because the boy has passed that "cute food" stages where I used to make his food look appealing (bento ideas). When flash back I do missed those fun days where we both work together to make bentos and he will help to prepare the ingredients as well as assembling the dish.
Yeah! Today is the first day of mid-year school holidays which I am sure some of you already have plans line-up for your kid(s) with activities, programmes or oversea trip. No matter what it is I hope you can have a wonderful bonding time with your loved ones.
For this week post, I am sharing another chiffon cake recipe using "rice flour (粘米粉)" which we often used it in Asia recipe to make steamed cake with yam or radish. Basically rice flour give a better texture for chiffon cake which is lighter and the recipe also requires less sugar and oil.
