Cream Puffs

Finally a post after 2 months away, it has been a hectic 2 months with submissions and also because i work durning the 2 months. While i was resting, i also decided to make some cream puff as i was craving for chewy junior but have been procrastinating to get it as i was very lazy at the same time. I use the recipe from Kawaii Sweet World and made a simple chocolate cream filling. 

I also coat the puffs with a layer of ganache but it was too thin making it like a glaze. However it still fast very nice, i really like the cream and will be experimenting it with different recipe. The cream tasted kinda like milo cream goodness, you just have to try. I actually do not really have measurements for the cream as i just eyeball the amount kekekekekek.

         Chocolate cream

         Ingredients                                                     

• 240ml of heavy/whipping cream
• 30g of chocolate

          

           Instructions

1. Whip the cream until soft peaks
2. Melt the chocolate over a double boil or in a microwave and let it cool.
3. When the chocolate had cool down, add it to the whipping cream and fold it in with a spatula.

Lola's Café

   

 After hearing lots of good review of this cafe, I have always wanted to go and try it myself. I also heard that they are famous for their chicken wings, so i decided to go and have a try with one of my friend.

     They offer brunch at the hour that we are there, so we ordered some food off their brunch menu. I have the Smoked pulled pork sanger and also ordered a orange and mango juice to go with it, my friend had the breakfast butter croissant. We also ordered a honey paprika crispy wings to share.

     The smoked pulled pork sanger is a sandwich with pulled pork and purple cabbage. The sandwich is very butter and dense which kinda of resemble a cake, I would suggesting sharing with another person as the portion is quite big and the buttery sandwich might be too much for one person to eat. The meat is seasoned well and is soft and tender.

     The highlight of the day, the honey paprika crispy wings. The wings are crispy even after it cool down, which is a good thing as some wings tend to loos the crispness when it cools down. The wing is crispy on the outside and moist and succulent and tender on the inside, I have to say it is one of the best wings i have ever eaten. The sauce that is poured on the wings complements it very well too, surprisingly honey and paprika worked quite well together, the honey is not overpowering and make the wings too sweet, it is just nice.

     I suggest booking ahead so that you will not have to wait for a table, as they are usually quite pack. The location of the cafe is also quite easy to find and it is also near the MRT. Opposite this cafe, there is also another cafe called Ice Edge Café which I have been to and is not bad.

Location: 5 Simon Road, 545893
Opening hours: Monday, Closed
                          Tuesday – Thursday, Sunday, 10AM – 11.30PM
                          Friday – Saturday, 10AM – 12AM

Korean Food Icons

 

  

 I created some icons to represent some iconic korean food, such as army stew, kimbap, ginseng chicken soup, patbingsu ( red bean ice), and more. 

School Assignments

     It has been a while since i have last blogged, it is due to all the hectic school life that is going on at the moment. This acts as a August update too and also for me to post some of my assignments that i have done.

Happy Sock: We are suppose to create a pair of socks for the company "Happy Socks" and this pair of socks have to make people feel happy when they use and see the sock. It can also be something that makes you happy.

Happy Thing: Create an artwork of what makes you feel happy. For me i like travelling, thus i created an airplane with a sunset at the back.

Happy Ad: Create an ad for any product you want, i really really love my pepper lunch thus i created the advertisement for pepper lunch. The explanation for the poster is that the animals are working hard to produce the best quality meat thus they are exercising.

Happy Story: Is for us to create a poster like page to document our assignments and explain the design rational behind it.

20 Images: We have to stylise the image that we choose into twenty different style, this is to train our creativity.

Self portrait: Using 4 different art movement we recreate a self portrait of our face. I got the art movement, art nouveau, bauhaus, cubism and constructivism.

Book cover: After being assigned to an art movement, we have to use that art movement and create a book cover for a book that we choose. I got Art deco movement and i decided to do a book cover for the book called "An inspector call", it is a really good book and i highly recommend you guys to read it.

For my typography class, we have to come up with many different composition everyday for different exercise. There is a total of 6 exercise and each exercise we have to come up with 4 composition so at the end we have a total of 24 composition. The final assignment is to create a poster for the typography exhibition. My headline for the poster was let type do the talking, as after learning typography you will realise that there are more than just words the words can create a certain feeling if place differently and have different fonts, colour and weight.

Clay finally piece

Abstract - Ferrari

Decorative

Perspective drawing

Still life

Final Assignment: Childhood Reality

Folder and photo essay (front)

Folder and photo essay (back)

Book plate ( Art Nouveau)

Book plate (De Stijl)

 I will try to find more time to blog about what i am currently doing, maybe i will have more time as my vacation is coming up soon, so till then........

June update

 It has been almost been two months since school started, but i have been enjoying it even though it is very mentally taxing due to all the assignments and their super close deadline. I finally found a chance to meet up with my friends for dinner, so we went to Buddy Hoagies café and grill at Waterway Point for dinner. I was really sorry to the both of them as i was late for the meet up as classes ended late and there was traffic, so they had waited for 30 minutes.

     After dinner, we went to the night market opposite the train station, we bought ice cream as our dessert. we managed to try the new craze on the internet the rose ice-cream. I really cannot wait for the holidays to start...... it is going to start in a few more days i have so much plan for the 2 weeks vacation.

April short update

Finally back after so long, school started and i have to adjust to my new surrounding and environment. For the month of april, i went for my school camp to get to know people from my school better and to also know more about my new school. The camp was a really good experience and i was really glad that i went for it, it is one of the best camp i ever attended, thanks to all the group leaders (Gls) for making the camp such a memorable one too.

Team nyto

Team Nyra

So school term started, and my first school assignment is to create a pair of happy socks, socks that make people happy. We had to come up with our own design using adobe illustrator and print it out. Overall the assignment was really fun and enjoyable hahhahha but not sure if all the future assignments will be like this.

Our socks

 

Kai Garden

   

 A few months back, my family and i went to Kai Garden for dinner and we ordered peking duck as one of the dishes and it was really tasty. The peking duck has to be eaten with a wrap made out of flour, the wrap from kai garden is really special as it has different colours. The different colours meant that it was made from different ingredients. The green one is made from spinach, the red one is made from beetroot, the yellow one made from pumpkin, the black one from bamboo charcoal and lastly the white one is the original one. Even though the warps are made of different ingredients but they don't really have a special taste or smell, it just taste and smell like the original wrap.

     The peking duck also have some sides to go with it, for kai garden, they provided a small rectangular piece of corn cracker for you to add into your peking duck wrap. By adding the corn cracker into the wrap, it makes the wrap have more crunch to it because if there is only the duck skin it will be too thin to provide the crunch for the wrap. Other than the corn cracker they also provide the normal sides like spring onion.

     The sauce for the peking duck is also really special as they have five different sauce for you to put into the wrap. They have the traditional sauce, black pepper sauce, special mixed sauce, crab and prawn sauce and sesame sauce, however i personally still prefer to eat the duck with the traditional sauce.

Put the duck and bamboo shoot into the lettuce and eat it as another type of wrap.

     After the skin has all been slice,  the chef will take the duck and cook another dish with it for you. The duck is then diced and cooked together with diced bamboo shoots to from another fabulous dish.

Ending the post with a cup of tea >.<

Kai Garden: 6 Raffles Boulevard, #03-128A/128B, Marina Square 039594

Opening hours: Monday - Friday 11.30am-3.30pm, 6-11pm
                          Saturday - Sunday 11am-4pm, 6-11pm