Caleb's homemade Birthday cake

Last weekend was Caleb's 2nd birthday. So fast, in a blink of eye he is entering "The Terrible 2" stage. But I guess he started in "The Terrible 2" stage much more earlier, yeah like 2 years ago...haha

Anyway, I'm praying to GOD each day to give me more strength and sanity to handle him. It is a real exhausting and challenging job I would say - physically and mentally.

Ok, enough about that. Now back to the topic.

We celebrated Caleb's birthday a day earlier as we were planning to go back to our hometown on his actual date. It was just a simple celebration, a dinner at TGIF and candle-blowing at home with me, jk and Caleb. Hahaha...simple right?

I made him a cake myself, ahem...... :)

The first attempt fail miserably as the cake didn't rise and was dense and hard, because I didnt add in the milk into the mixture!
I was like "sei lo - how how how ar?" but nothing can be done because it already in the oven. :(
All I can do is just hope for the best to come although deep down I know it is impossible...

So, I started working on the ingredient again and this time, it turned out ok. It rise evenly and spongy to touch. Pheewww.... if not, we really need to go down to a bakery shop and buy one. :)

Melted some dark semi sweet chocolate and poured all over it after the cake was cooled down. Sliced some peaches and arrange it all around. Sprinkled some colorful cake decoration and ta-daaaa... A Birthday Cake!

I bought the '2' candle from a bakery shop. Hehe....abit different from those typical candles la, but too bad, can re-use anymore..... :(

You must be asking, "Caleb stick to you like a leech, he didnt disturb you?"
Of cox he did, I shoo-ed him away telling him I'm making a cake.... Quietly he went away and the next minute I checked on him, he's playing with his blocks.

Yeah, a rare sight in 100 years (pak nien nan tak yat kin)
Hahahaha.......

Just now who said I'm naughty? :D

Pumpkin porridge with fried fish paste

This is what I cooked for Caleb's lunch today. Pumpkin porridge with fish slices and top fried fish paste. Yum yum right? :)

I threw in the pumpkin when I started to cook the porridge. By the time porridge was ready, so does the pumpkin too. I marinated a few fish slices that I took from my mom's place. My mom always prepare all my fish stock for me to take back home. Aren't I lucky :)

Anyway, I lightly fried the fish paste with a bit of oil. I cut it up in cubes and just sprinkled on top of the pumpkin porridge. Smell nice...look so elegant too. Just like one of Anthony Bourdain soup dishes.

Haha....it was polished within minutes. I asked Caleb "Nice?". He said "niceee.."

And that's all I need to hear :)

Caleb and the sand

4 months ago, I went to Singapore with Caleb and mother in law. I wrote about it here and here.

What I love most about my sis in law's place is that we can reached the seaside just a few minutes walk.

So, one fine Sunday morning, we decided to bring all the children to seaside to play on sand. I don't know what to expect as this is the first time Caleb will meet 'The Sand'.

It was manageable for the first few minutes as Caleb processing things inside his brain. Observing and exploring bits by bits.

 

Then all hell broke loose.....first, he ate sand. Yes, MY SON ATE SAND!!
I became a hysterical mommy jumping up and down because I dont know how to ask him to spit it out. So, I gave him water....alot alot of water and drenched his shirt.

Thus he become topless baby on the beach.

 

 

The body covered with sand,

the hands covered with sand,

the legs covered with sand,

Haizzz, I give up.

I love cupcakes

I like to bake. Yes, I did. But all the cleaning up afterwards that I dont like. :(

Few weeks ago I did some cupcakes. Not the first thou but it was the first time that I took the effort to beat up some buttercream frosting and did some decoration on top of each cupcakes.

It was addictive.

In the end, I couldn't finish it (and it is fattenning :)) and I brought it down at my apartment that evening and shared it with Caleb's friends and their mommies and their caretakers.

The next few days, I baked them again :)

I did tell you that decorating them was addictive.....

This time I bought a few more decorating items and food coloring. Aren't they look prettier? :)

I gave 80% of the cupcakes to one of jk's friend who owned a pet shop. I told if she can't finish it, feel free to share it with her colleagues or customers back at her shop. :)

Want to order some cupcakes for kid's party? Can let me know, ok? No preservatives, no additives, only the best ingredients in making the cupcakes :)

Day 7 - Hong Kong ; Kuala Lumpur

The engine has started, don't let it stop.

Ok, final day in HK. That means I can see my baby very soon. Oh, I miss my baby so much.... Curious of what his reaction later when I see him in airport. Can't wait! 

Anyway, our flight back was scheduled at 3pm+ and we could only went for our last breakfast in HK before we packed things up and checked out.

For breakfast, we went to Foo Lum Restaurant for their Dim Sum again.

It was crowded even on weekdays. Really no need to work meh? So free to yum cha... But another closer look, most of them are old folks. Old people already retired, nothing do, yum cha lor...

So relaxing hor...

We tried not to repeat what we had a few days ago except Char Siew Pau because it was soooo GOOD. So here's the new dim sum dishes we ordered.

The Char Pau

Vegetable dumpling

Black Sesame kuih lapis

Fried Mee Hoon

Ma Lai Kou

Forgot the total bill for this time. Didnt take photos that's why no evidence.
After breakfast, went back to our hotel, packed up and head down to reception for check-out.

We took Airport transfer by bus since it was free provided by our hotel.
Freezing cold outside while waiting for the bus to come. I wore 3 tops and 2 bottoms but it was STILL FREAKING COLD ler.....WTF!

Had this after reached HongKong International Airport. Since I have another 1h to kill, bought a cup of Caramel Macchiato and a piece of Butter Cake.

Shock! A slice of Butter Cake costs HKD112? You must be kidding!

Yes, they are kidding. It's a typo. Actual price is HKD12. But still expensive la, RM6 for a slice of cake? RM6 I can make a whole cake de.
What to do? The cold weather making me always looking for food. Dont complaint...just eat.

Oh, I bought this piece of bathrobe for Caleb in HK Disneyland. Cute eh?

Another picture showing the back....

That's all I bought during the trip. Nothing suits me as they were selling big, thick, wool jacket/apparel everywhere. Make no sense buying them to wear in our hot country, later ppl must be thinking I'm 'shot shot dei' haha..

Finally.....I'm done with my HK trip 2011. Yeah!!  *clap clap clap*

Day 6 - Hong Kong

Hahaha.....still haven't finish blogging about Hong Kong and now it's already in mid July tsk tsk tsk...
Anyway, just bear with me ya....

Ok, today's destination - Hong Kong Disneyland.

Destination: Hong Kong Disneyland

First thing first, we need to have a good breakfast as we are going to walk whole day in Disneyland (yea, as if there were days we didnt have to...)

Anyway, we decided to have Wantan mee for breakfast. In our mind, we have one targeted shop. There was this shop down the street which sells wantan mee. Everytime we passed by, we saw a lot of patrons eating inside. You know how it translated to: many ppl = good food :)
But we were too early (I think about 9:30am, couldnt remember de) and the shop haven't open for business. Haaiii...no fate. :(

So we just walked around look for another breakfast place and saw this shop.

What? Another lai cha for breakfast ar? Aiyo...nothing else meh? - my aunt commented when we said "let's go inside"

Hmmmm...... nevermind la, try la, ok? Maybe nice leh.......

Honolulu Coffee Cake Shop

Let's see what they have in their menu.

Actually, more or less, it's the same thing. We choose Set A and B. Nobody wants to eat Set C. Haha..of cox la, who want to eat oat with milk in Hong Kong?

Dont ask me which one I ate because I couldn't remember :) This is result in delaying writing blog after 6 months....hahaha

Each set comes with coffee or tea.



Full with energy, Disneyland, here we come...

 

Mickey Mouse icon - every nook and corner

Even Mickey handrail in MTR

Oh, now I remember. We reached there 5 mins before 11am :)

 Good thing we have digital camera right?

First thing first, group photo in front of Mickey's Fountain. See Mickey with his surfboard?

 

Let's enter the World of Yesterday, Tomorrow and Fantasy. Whatever la...pay for the ticket already *haha*

The first thing we saw this long queue waiting to take picturess with Mickey and Minnie. My cousin was saying " Oh, come come, queue queue, take pictures with Mickey " and me nearly fainted ^.^ But what the heck, it's not everyday you can take photos with Mickey and Minnie right?

Queue pun queue laaaa....

Sila beratur disini...terima kasih.

Taking pictures of myself after queuing up for half an hour. Despite on the cold weather, at the end of the day, I got sunburn on my face and neck. Sigh...of all days why I choose this day not to apply sunblock? kns betul la... :(

Finally, we took photos with bloody Mickey and Minnie after queuing up for more than 1.5h... Better treasure this picture for long long time :)

Next we visited Tarzan's treehouse

Up on the tree....really treehouse oh *sampat* hahaha

Tarzan welcoming you to his house :)

Sabor looking not so welcoming. Flaring its fangs...what? what? scare ghost ar? Chehhh.....

Suddenly Sabor spit something out from its mouth. Kanasai....thick smoke with loud 'hissss' sound. Scare the shit out of me tim....

Not fun at all.

Next we went for some River Adventure; Jungle River Cruise.

Before we can go and ride in the boat, as usual, we need to queue again. :(

Upon the entrance for queuing, there were 3 lanes for you to choose from. Mandarin, English or Cantonese speaking tour guide. Of cox we went for Cantonese speaking, more homely feeling ma. She did a great job by putting on those cartoonist gimmicks and jokes for us. Farnie... :) 

But I do feel pity for her. Why? because she need to repeat the whole thing over and over again for the rest of the day (or everyday? mmm...)
Haizz....wan sek kan nan lor.

What to do? Somebody need to do the job.

Some fake wild crocs to scare the shit out of you.

Next up, we went for Lion King show. Yes, all these people were queuing for the show. Luckily the theater is big enough to cater for more than 500 people.

My *ahem cough* pahriah camera took this picture. Blur-y, misty and foggy. I need a new camera please. *tyvm*

Ok, tour guide ar? Sudah lapar la, makan apa?

I asked my cousin.

Whipped out our directory and search for 'FOOD LIST' and we found ourself agreed to FAST FOOD. :)

We went to Disneyland so that we can eat their pork burger. Hahaha... Oh, I love pork burger very much since we dont have the opportunity to eat it back at home.

My pork burger set comes with fries and coke.

My big, fat juicy pork burger.

'Ketchup' putting on it smiley face.

After lunch, we just continue with our queuing up routine whenever we want to ride in something or watch anything. I can say that queuing up nearly took half of the time we spent in Disneyland. Well, what to do? In Disneyland, 365 days also full of visitors. Unless of course I'm the owner la, right?

Ride in Winnie's hunny pot

Some parade going on

Caleb must be jumping up and down if he sees this carousel. :)

Horsie horsie...

We were run like mad ppl for this PhilharMagic show because if we missed it, we'll need to wait for another 2h for the next batch to begin. Luckily we made it! Pheww!

It was the best 3D show I've ever experienced. But I think it should be in 4D because I actually can smell the food when they song 'Be My Guest' song in Beauty and the Beast movie. I can feel the splashing of water too...Flounder (I'm sure you know who Flounder is right?, the fat, plump-y yellow fish in 'The Little Mermaid'?) seem like swimming under your nose.

It was the best 10 minutes long show. :) Must try this again :) Yes, darling, again :)

A picture with the main magical castle

The only disappointment in this trip was we couldn't go for a ride in It's A Small World area because it closed down for renovation. Darn! Oh and also the parade was cancel in that period of time. Double Darn!! Sigh.... I guessed maybe it was due to the weather. Too cold already, all those cartoons characters might die freezing..lol

Lastly we went to see another live show. The Golden Mickey.

Curi gambar again :) Picture source

Night time catching up soon and all lights came alive. 

Slowly....

The worst firework pictures ever.

Say, when can I get a new camera? ^.^v

My birthday is coming soon...errr, Caleb's one sooner :)

The fireworks display was the best part of all. The best 15 minutes made my eyes glues at it. Mmm...just curious, HK disneyland need to display these fireworks everyday, 365 a year. You know how much money they need to 'burn'? Well, I dont know :) but I'm interested to know.

We took MTR back to Central for our last dinner in Hong Kong.

The well-known throat-cutting Yung Kee, famous for its best-eat-already-can-fly ROASTED GOOSE.

The sinfully-utter-delicious Century old duck egg with pickled ginger. I dont take century eggs...oh such a waste! My cousin and aunt commented this was the best Century eggs they had. Mmm...good thing I dont eat it, that's mean they can have my share as well :)

Some sort of vegetable with crab meat. Taste was so-so but the crab meat were plentiful. We slurped the last drop of the gravy. Dont waste ma, very expensive, ok?

Claypot tofu with alot of side accompaniments. Taste good with flavorful tofu. Gravy was nice too, best eaten with rice :) We are Chinese, so rice is our staple food.

The signature and legendary Roasted Goose.

Verdict: It definitely worth to call 'The Flying Roast Goose' Not to say that you really can fly up high after you took a bite but because after tasting the roast goose, many visitors buy and carry it home with them by air to share among relatives and friends, hence the Flying Roast Goose nickname.

The meat was aromatic, succulent, tender and oh just melt in your mouth kinda thing. The skin was darn darn crispy. Scoop abit of the plum sauce, put a piece of meat on top and 'ahhhh' goes into your mouth. Uhhh...yum yum yun.. Never tasted anything like this before.

But on the other side, this piece of 'treasure' comes with a BIG price. It priced at  HKD210 for half and HKD420 for the whole bird. *rolls eyes*

Closer shot at the glistening skin. Uh la la

Another closer shot on the big giant prawn served in Claypot Tofu

The highlight at the end of our dinner. The bill

The damage in total was HKD519.80 for 3 persons. My my my..... heard that there are certain floor which reserved to Yung's Club exclusive member and serves excellent food. The most top Roast Geese were reserves for the VIPs who can affort.

Phewww...finally. My HK day 6 trip completed..... :)