Pastries and Dim Sum

Penang Tau Sar Piah (Mung Bean Pastry)

March 27, 2011

A non-bento post today. During one of the days that we were snowed in not too long ago, I decided to make Mung Bean Pastry or better known as Penang Tau Sar Piah. Dough A: 230 g flour 130 g oil Dough B: 460 g flour 250 g oil 180 g water 1 tsp vinegar [...]

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Trader Joe’s Mini Croissant

April 9, 2010

Looks good, doesn’t it? I wish I made it but I didn’t. It is from Trader Joe’s.  It comes either in a pack of 8 mini croissants like the one below or 4 regular-sized croissant.  This has now become one of our favorite Saturday morning breakfast. All I have to do is take it out the [...]

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Apple Crisp

October 29, 2009

It’s apple season now. So, two weeks ago, we went to pick apples from the a local apple orchard (Jones Creek Farms). It was so much fun because we got to eat as much apples as we wanted off the apple trees and we really ate A LOT of apples!!! I actually felt a little [...]

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Pie Pops

August 7, 2009

I love eating a variety of food. Maybe that is why I am attracted to tiny-portion food like dim sum, tapas, izakaya, cupcakes and cupcake pops. With all these food, I get to eat different varieties of food instead of getting full with just one kind of food. That is why when I first came across these pie pops, I knew that [...]

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Seremban Siew Pau

June 17, 2009

I remember when I lived in Kuala Lumpur and probably once a month, we would make a trip to my in-laws. Every trip we would always make a slight detour into Seremban town to pick up a box of Seremban Siew Pau. They were so good!! Well, that was many years ago and I haven’t [...]

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Bakery Nouveau @ West Seattle

May 29, 2009

It was supposed to be a week of celebration with mother’s day and my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately all plans were canceled when I ended up having a major toothache which resulted in a very expensive emergency root canal. Ouch!! Anyway, I finally got a little belated celebration the following weekend. DH [...]

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Dim Sum @ Sun Sui Wah, Richmond BC

April 24, 2008

Vancouver/Richmond Part 1 This past month had been rather stressful filled with endless doctor visits. The flu season seem to be extremely severe this winter. Two weekends ago, with the entire family feeling healthy, we decided to head across the border for relaxation and a dose of great comfort food. We headed straight to Richmond, [...]

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Spiral Pandan Pastry

October 7, 2006

Layerings are a little too thick. *sigh* Will definitely need a lot more practice! Recipe from: http://mykitchenmylaboratory.blogspot.com/2006/04/chinese-pastries-iii.html

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Yam (Taro) Puff

September 1, 2006

One of my favorite dim sum dish. Still not very successful with the beehive effect but tastewise, it was awesome. Recipe from here: http://lilyng2000.blogspot.com/2005/05/taro-puffwoo-kok.html

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