Food... Glorious... Food!!!

It has been really long since I have blogged. For this edition, I have compiled all the food that we had for the past few days. Not a lot though as most of the time I have been staying at home. Found loads of TV programs to watch on TV. Pictures may not be cleared as I have used 1.3 Megapixels mobile camera. Nevertheless, Enjoy!

BBQ Night. The man behind our BBQ-ed food. The varieties of food available here are alright. As compared to the BBQ that our boss brought us the other time, this would be lesser. Had Bak Kwah (Pork), Tofu, Chicken Drumsticks and a wing (not in picture) for RMB 8.50 (S$1.70).

When eating BBQ, the drink to complement your food is 王老吉 (Wang Lao Ji - as shown in picture below). It is really nicer compared to Jia Jia Liang Teh.

This is Shantou's version of Kueh Chap. I prefer the one in Singapore, where the food is separated from the Kueh. The kueh here is very much different too. It taste more like porridge when you bite on the Kueh, whereas Singapore's very smooth and silky.

A Sunday, which we wanted to stay at home and cook. Had 八宝粥 (Eight treasures Porridge). It has barley, green and red beans. Loads of beans in it. So you make up to 8 of it. Eating it with the soy sauce (scallop flavour) makes it even better. We had some leftovers and made dessert with it by adding sugar. Actually it taste nicer when it is sweet.

We told 黄小姐 that I still wanted to eat the 小笼包 that I haven't got to eat. Then she brought us to this shop that is near her place. Instead of being 小笼包, which looks like it, it turns out to be a smaller version of the 肉包 (Pork bun - which is dry in it). I just found out that in Shantou, it is not called 汤包 (Soup bun) not 小笼包. We also have 童子鸡 (Tong Zi Ji - Upper left in picture) and Wanton. Seems like I will have to continue hunting for the right 小笼包 then.

Life has been a little monotonous recently. It is now Thursday and I have still nothing much to do. Everybody seems to be busy except for Wendy and I. 黄小姐 always going out of the office every now and then. 陈广奇 has been running some tests for some stuffs, 沈香兰 staring at her computer from start of work till end of work. 香兰 has the most calls everyday. Always seeing her on the phone. See! All of them are busy and yet we have nothing much to do.

My translation days might come to an end. Piles of translation become one per day. Sometimes, it is not that we want to slack. So all we could do is to do our own research or seriously slack sometimes. Being in school to a certain extend may not be a bad thing. When you are bored, you can talk to your friend on the left or right. Wendy is sitting in front of me so most of our communications are through MSN. You wouldn't want us both to be shouting when we are talking. That wouldn't be nice when everybody is so concentrated in their work.

At least yesterday wasn't too bad. I got a couple of letters to translate and I have chatted with the French customer again. That's all. I'm even surprise at how fast this week has gone past so fast, yet there's nothing much we can d0. Mr Tan has already proposed a MP for us to do and 黄小姐 has also helped us to convey the message to boss. But I think he is still too busy to answer anything or is he considering really hard? Well, I think I am giving it a try today when I see him.

Anyway, after work yesterday, we wanted to eat 小笼包 (a bun, which has soup in it). Really nice to eat. China and Hong Kong have really nice 小笼包, so wanted to taste it. But when we got to the place, they said that they had stopped making 小笼包. So sad. But what we ate in the end wasn't that bad too. Ate their specialty noodle and soup (really good), nian yong bao (some paste bun, on the top left-hand side of the first picture) and 排骨 (pork ribs, second picture). The pork ribs, 黄小姐 paid for it and the nian yong bao I paid for it because Wendy didn't order anything. So in total, I have spent RMB 16 (S$3.20) for all these. It was damn filling.


As usual after dinner, we went for a walk and saw Ou Jyi (欧吉) Black Bubble Tea shop. 胚芽珍朱奶茶 (Plumule Bubble Milk Tea). Plumule is the bud of the ascending axis of a plant while still in the embryo. It is really nice and healthy. The first time I drank it was after the first badminton session, boss bought it for me. Ever since, I only drink that and nothing else. They have a promotion for all large cup drinks going at RMB 10 (S$2). But because I added pearls to it, so it is RMB 12 (S$2.40). I enjoyed drinking it but was really really full after it. Punishment for greediness

Art of Appreciating Tea

10th June 2007, Sunday - New Found Friends

It was a Sunday evening when boss gave us a call to ask us out for dinner. We were about to go out to settle our own dinner anyway. But since he invited us, then we went with him instead. The picture below is the entrance of the place, where we went. The place is beautiful and very near our place. We have passed it a lot of times but never thought of going in to eat. Boss said that it is cheap to eat here.

These are the first few dishes that we ate. We ate about 7 to 8 dishes, all really nice. In the picture below, the left dish is mushrooms (My favourite is this. Don't know how they cooked it but it is really really good), the top-middle dish is a type of noodle, which I don't really know what they used to do it (but I heard melon if I'm not wrong), the right bottom one is chicken. Semi-cold chicken. Really nice. There were soup, duck stew, ngoh hiang (dad's favourite), fried tofu, salted mee suah was our last dish. Sorry if I have forgotten any. Special sauces came with almost every dishes to complement the taste. Nice combinations anyway. This meal cost us RMB 100 (S$20). I think they gave discount because when we finished eating, the place blacked-out. The generator snapped. I knew it because it snapped right in front of me. As in, I was in the angle that I can see it happened. Anyway, besides boss, we met his primary schoolmate, 阿国.

We went to boss's tea shop after dinner to try all his different kinds of teas. We tried 铁观音, which just came in yesterday and many others, which I can't remember. After staying there till about 9pm, we went to Happy Hours KTV. Yeah! More songs to sing and met another friend. She is 阿国 girlfriend, 玉儿. But she asked us to call her 阿玉. Hee. She is a really nice person to hang around with. Easily to start a communication with and sings really well too! 阿国 is really lucky!!! 阿国 and 阿玉 joked that they met downstairs at the KTV when I asked how long they have been together. They are a really cute couple with good telepathy level.

After KTV, which was 12am, we went to boss' Mahjong den to drink more tea while he settles some stuffs. Becoming a tea freak. We sat there quite a while, drinking tea, chit-chatting then we went for supper. Had seafood for supper. Not bad. We ate loads of fishes. But other than that, there were crabs (I didn't eat because it is semi-raw), small prawns (very sweet and nice to eat). Can't remember the rest. Then we headed home after a long while. But all I know, we reached home a 3:30am. Then we dozed off because we cannot take it already. Too long of a day. Still got work today.

9th June 2007, Saturday

No translation today but had to communicate with the French customer almost the whole day. He actually wanted to settle everything by today. But due to time constraint, we weren't able to test completely. Furthermore, his SmartCard was running out of cash because we couldn't use the 'blocker' to insert the card. As we don't have the 'blocker' with us. A 'blocker' is a device to insert the SmartCard in and stop the channels from minusing any money out of it when you are running your test. Apparently we wanted to test the CV12 with the SmartCard on the 410 receiver but the French guy said that the receiver and the CV12 are at two different places. It will take 2 days to bring the two things together. So he wants us to send him another CV12 sample but it will take about 3 days. Well, but we have already sent it to him today. As much as we want to finish doing all the test for him and all but like 黄小姐 has said in Chinese, "When doing test, it definitely needs time".

After work today, 黄小姐 needed to OT for a while so we waited for her because we were going for dinner together. We took a cab because it was raining heavily. Wanted to take trishaw initially but 3 persons on a trishaw on a raining day is disastrous. This is the back of the cab. As though I'm in jail.

We alighted at Turbo Restaurant for dinner. I could recall myself being famished and could eat everything in the menu. This is really near Wal-mart. RMB 10 (S$2) for the cab fare but it was split amongst three of us so we had to pay RMB 3 (S$0.60) each. Of course 黄小姐 paid more for the cab fare. Erm... not that I wanted it to be this way. Well, the interior I would say is really cosy with really good ambience.



I wanted to eat the delicious looking ice-creams above but my meal came in a set so I gave the ice-cream a passed. Maybe I would eat it the next time since this is a summer promotion.

This is a fruit-vege salad. Really nice the way they combined the cucumber, apple and tomato in one dish. The soup below is cream of corn. C-O-R-N. Me like.... Hee. I love my meal. Wait till you see the main course. It's even BETTER!!!

Taa-daa!! When it is served to us, we had to do a little cooking, which is almost the same as Pepper Lunch. But the food at Pepper Lunch really allows you to cook to your satisfaction. I ordered medium rare. But once I flipped to the other side, the middle still had a little blood but it is not entirely medium rare anymore. Maybe should order rare. Haha. But all-in-all, it is really sumptuous.

After the main course, we had ice-cream! They not only served the ice-cream. Below the ice-cream is cubes of apples. Really nice combination. Initially they served us chocolate but it was together with the appetizers so by the time we finished everything, it would have melted so we requested the waitress to bring it back till we asked for it. Initially it was chocolate flavour but when we asked for it, the flavour was different. But I have enjoyed it nonetheless.

For this set that I ate, it is RMB 26 (S$5.20). Went a little shopping after dinner. Always good to walk a while after dinner. Shopped till 11pm and decided to head home. Yeah! Another week is passing soon! =)

Video of Automated Locker

8th June 2007, Friday

I nearly forgotten to remind all of you something. Before you continue reading or scrolling (which I think you wouldn't care), please prepare a box of tissue or hankerchief because the following content is not for the hungry souls. Enjoy!

Friday morning at work, I was rushing to complete my PR1 and my weekly progress report for Mr Tan. Well, not really rushing but still manage to finish it before lunch. How hard can a report be? Then after lunch, I started doing loads of translations work. One after another kept coming. I even told 黄小姐 that I couldn't even breathe. Yesterday can be considered a busy day then. When Mr Tan didn't receive two documents that I have sent him the day before, I had to redo because I didn't keep one of the document. Then did quite a lot of research on MP4 too.

For lunch, we ate Claypot Rice. I would never had thought that they really brought the whole port to our place. They have many kinds of claypot but all of us chose between 排骨 (pork ribs) or chicken.

香兰 and I ate the chicken one. For RMB 5 (S$1), you get this kind of portion but eating it more like eating bones than the meat. But it is still nice. To my opinion, I think eating the chicken has more meat than eating the pork ribs. The bones of the pork ribs are so much bigger but very little meat on it.

But seriously, I wish it wasn't after lunch on Friday, besides all the translation documents piling up, I had to msn the French customer again. I think you might have guessed, the problem has not been resolved. Still got so much problem. But I guess to a certain extend I was lucky to have finished all my work then I start msn-ing the French customer. One thing I was happy though it that when I have finished all the translation and all, it was 1630 (4.30pm).

After work, we went to 玫瑰园 (Rose Garden). Don't be silly, it is not literally 'Rose Garden'. I don't even see any roses when I alighted from Bus 9. If we were to take Bus 9, it is only 4 stops till we reached Rose Garden. Then we decided to go for dinner first. We stumbled across a cafeteria which sells duck rice. 黄小姐 wanted to eat duck rice but we ate something else instead. They have so many varieties of food here. The eggs, vege and the soup you see come as a set with the meal. Since all of us ordered the set, they decided to put everything into a plate.

You must be wondering why there's three eggs when there are four of us. Apparently 黄小姐 was too hungry she took hers and they remembered I had to take photos. If you can spot carefully, her egg is on the top left-hand corner of the picture above. Oh! The below picture of the vege is disgusting. I think some of you will think is nice but I don't like the bitter taste so skipped eating this. I can get my protein from somewhere else Like Meat - ROAR!

This soup is really superlicious. This is 黄小姐 soup. The rest of us drank this seaweed soup, which I don't know why its cold. Not bad but 黄小姐 soup is better and and warm. She and I drank half and we swapped soup.


The above is the casing for my rice set is nice yar? Like a treasure case. Then when you open it, you will have 火爆牛肉 (beef.). Really nice. Everybody said that mine is the nicest. The sauce is so nice together with the beef and the rice. Mouth watering.

No no, I am not showing more of my food. If you observed carefully, the bottom one is 黄小姐 set. Hers is called, '金菇滑鸡', which means golden mushrooms with chicken. I like how they prepared the golden mushrooms. Really really nice. For my set, it is RMB 13 (S$2.60). Very cheap for the set.


The above is 香兰, which is 红烧排骨 (roasted pork ribs). Not bad but the rice is not as nice as the one in the treasure chest. Then the bottom is Wendy's 鱼香肉丝. Using fish sauce to cook with chicken meat. This set would be RMB 14 (S$2.80). I only know 香兰 and my set because we were looking at it together.

We traded with each other's our ingredients like having pot luck. The feeling is very nice. Look at how much we enjoyed our food. Erm... at least I think I am. My smile seems to be the widest. Don't know what's with the rest. They said the food is good but the expression on their faces seem different. Don't be fooled by their faces, trust my face will do. It is really NICE! Hee.

After dinner, we went to walk around, which is good for digestion. The apparels shop there are really nice and up to date to style but can be quite costly. So I just looked. I promised my mom I wouldn't spend anymore for the time being anyway. Then we came past, 大众 supermarket so we spent like an hour and a half in there because 黄小姐 wanted to get some 日常用品 (things she uses daily) to stock up. She bought us this ice-creams to thank us for spending time in there with her. Then we continued shopping at the other side of the road. That stretch of road has many apparels shop - some are expensive and some are affordable.

Before I end, remember the automated locker I told you about? I have managed to take a video of it with the help from 香兰 when we were at 大众 supermarket. So I will post it after this. The purpose of doing so is to keep your valuables inside so as you don't lose it while shopping or they do not want you to be shoplifting from their store. You can only find it in supermarket. Hasn't seen it anywhere else.

Wow! It has been a while since I have blogged. I did nothing much since Monday. Actually like all of you doing your MP, I can't wait to start on mine too. It can be really boring doing translation everyday. Researching for stuffs regarding Telecommunications (电信) is not boring. At least I get to learn stuffs I never knew. The constant translation for letters and documents from English-to-Chinese, vice versa has already been inculcated into part of my life. I'm so immune to it but bored at the same time. Besides having to research for stuffs such as DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C and much much more, I have to translate it from English-to-Chinese. Well, that's nothing new.


You must be thinking, "Why don't Clarissa use the wikipedia.com in Chinese? Wouldn't it be faster?" Apparently, I'm not stupid to use that method but the information given in Chinese is so limited. Clarissa definitely knows how to jump to short-cuts in order to work fast and all. But you wouldn't learn as much. Therefore, I have been doing the long way. Do you know that wikipedia is being banned in China? Apparently, the government wouldn't want the Chinese to know too much. So it can be quite hard to search for information. But I have my witty ways.


So far, I have learnt so much Telecomm terms in Chinese, such as Modulator (调制器), server (服务器), Card Splitter (分卡机) etc. But I know you don't really bother knowing it in Chinese when all of you have the pleasure of using English in Singapore.

Work aside. I ate green bean soup yesterday. I miss my mommy's - it has sago in it. My favourite. Here they put melon in it because the weather is getting hotter as summer is making its way in.

After lunch when Yan Jie (boss' sister) returned, she bought HUGE watermelon for all of us. Sorry for I have taken one bite realising that I haven't taken a photo of it. Wanted to keep it because I have never seen HUGE watermelon before. Yeah yeah, call me noob. I never take the side that has loads of seeds. I though I was eating watermelon seeds instead of the watermelon itself.

4th June 2007, Monday

Let me fill you in about my work. Recently 黄小姐 and I are handling with a French customer. He is ordering CV12 and servers from us. He's a BIG customer for our company because their bulk purchase is really BULKY!! Anyway, the whole of last week, he encountered problems with the pay per view and the adult channels. So we have been troubleshooting for him. Actually throughout this process, I have learnt loads from the conversation.

Just yesterday, I have talked to him on the phone and he said that all of the channels are working fine. I was elated by the news that we all have been waiting for. Initially it was terrifying to talk to him because he is a big client for the company but my confidence was picked up as our conversation continues farther. Well, before this incident, I have communicated with a Philippines customer so I think there's shouldn't be signs of me being afraid. But today after 12am, the pay per view adult channels cannot be viewed. Apparently, there was no picture. He will be troubleshooting for the next 5 hours but he would first want the production of the CV12. So we are crossing our fingers now that everything is working fine. =)

So when I said that I have been communicating with the company's customer, most of the time is him and another two guys. I feel quite good about this because it seems as though I'm like a businesswoman. Hee. Well, that's not the only thing I have been doing. I have been searching for this Korean product - Mio, for our MP. Wendy found the Korean website but none of us understand Korean. So I have been looking for the English website and found it. I have translated it to Chinese for boss to better understand everything. But I don't think he needs to know only the specifications. So have to search for more stuffs for him.

Mr Tan, if you are reading this. I have to tell you, there's nothing much I can tell you about MP5 because MP5 is more like a software, so there are no specs for it. But still have to better understand it because Mp5 is quite a new thing. Erm... I supposed you all have heard of MP3 (mainly playing music), MP4 (music and video player), and MP5 (able to view television programmes). Cool yar? But it is not easy to find because usually when you search for MP5, results will show more on the MP5 (semi-automated guns) that the army uses. Well, I guess we must work harder than. 3 months is not a long time.

Anyway, after work, 黄小姐 brought us to Suning Electrical stores. Wendy wanted to see some electrical stuffs and buy it home. Nothing much to see though. But I think Chinese are so smart that they could come up with all sorts of products. I saw a MP3 cum Camera at the MP3/Mp4 section. Quite cool. But the salesperson didn't know how to operate the camera so it took us about 15 to 20 minutes there to try to figure. In the end, we still couldn't use the camera. Haha. Then we went for dinner.

Dinner was at this place next to Suning. All of us ate fishball noodle soup. The fishball is far different from ours in Singapore. The fishballs in Singapore is made by machines but the fishballs are handmade here. It's more solid and nicer.

After dinner, we went to shop to wait for boss to pick us up. Yes, he is back only yesterday (Monday). He asked us to play badminton. He has fixed every Monday for badminton now because we got our own private court. Actually the 'private' court ain't really private because there are still other courts around. But the private here means that we got a whole court to ourselves unlike the first time, we have to share with so many people. Therefore, having to play only one match. Perspire quite a bit, which was a good feeling. At least we can still exercise here and not get fat.

After badminton at 11pm, we headed down to boss' mahjong den. He had to settle quite a bit of things so we sat there drinking tea till 12.45am/1am. Oh! Besides BLUETVSAT Electronics Co. Ltd. and a mahjong den, he also produced tea. No wonder he is forever busy. But tea and mahjong are his side businesses. He concentrate more on this electronic company. I told him yesterday that I wanted to get some tea back from his shop. =)

Well, after the mahjong den, we went to have BBQ and a roadside stall. No worries everyone. I'm fine today. Haha. I think that corn stall previously has problem. I think if a place has problem, boss won't bring us there. The food is good. Ate chicken wings, cuttlefish, beef. There were shell food like mussels and oysters but I don't take them. Desmond, I hope you were with me now because you will totally enjoy it. It looked good and juicy. I guarantee you will like it. Sorry, I don't have pictures for this because didn't bring camera along. Boss reminded us to take photos too. I told him that there will be another time. Hee.

We finished eating and all then boss sent us home. It was already around 2.15am to 2.30am when we got home. Very tired by then. Long day at work.
Just wanted to test my parents' reactions when they see this. Hee. Don't worry mommy and DD, I didn't ride on it. I just wanted to take a photo to show you. So what do you think? Look nice in it? Haha. AND I'm not sitting on any Tom, Dick or Harry's scooter ok. This is 黄小姐. =)

Video of Chee Cheong Fan

Yeah! It is another Sunday. But it has already ended and tomorrow I'm going to work again. Well, we went to this street on the first Saturday when we arrived. We revisited it again today because we wanted to do a 1-on-1 shopping. So we left home at 3pm but once we stepped out of our place, it started to rain. We had to take cover in a book store, which is kind of smaller than Borders at Wheelock, but it has two-storey high. It is a very famous book store here. Whenever we have to describe where we stay, people will relate it to this book store.

Anyway, we thought the rain was smaller so we took bus 24 to the place. Apparently bus 24 route has a lot of famous places to shop, eat etc. But once we got down of bus 24, it started to pour heavily again and we took shelter again. Whenever we see the rain slightly smaller, we will cover as much ground as possible. Till we saw 'Texas Burger'. The logo looks like Burger King's but the food serve is comparable to KFC. So we went to order some snacks there and chill till the rain has stopped. After Wendy finished the last nugget, the rain stopped just as she had predicted.

Then I told her to let's go shopping first. While shopping, we saw this uncle flipping something and looked interesting so we got one to try. The picture below is what we ate. It is actually egg, with meat, spring onion, cai poh (the thing on top of chee kueh) and mushroom. We ate one and thought it is really nice so we went to get another. RMB 1 (S$0.20). Quite filling too for such a cheap stuff. =)

Then after we were finished with shopping, we wanted to get this chicken which seasoning is heavenly. But two times we went there, two times, it is closed. We went passed earlier in the day but decided to buy it after our shopping. But who knows, it was already closed. So I went to buy char siew bao. Two for RMB 1 (S$0.20). Damn cheap man!!! Haha. The taste of it is very different from Singapore's. The char siew is brown instead of red. The pao is handmade so it is much tastier.

We were on our way to go to our bus-stop when we saw a stall selling something interesting. Then we see two ladies standing there waiting for their order so we went to take a look. The ladies told us that if have never tried it before then we should because it is really nice. Actually, it is Chee Cheong Fan but with vege, meat and eggs in it and the topping is with cai poh.

I have recorded the process of making it. It will come after this post. =) Enjoy!

The above picture is without the gravy and the bottom is with it. Wanted to take every single shot so that you can see =) Sorry if I have made y'all drool again. My bad!

The ingredients in it. Not very clear because I didn't want to continue making it uglier. But this should be good enough. Rest assure, it is really delicious! Really really good. Love the gravy. This is RMB 3 (S$0.60). Where can you find cheap and filled-with-ingredient Chee Cheong Fan in Singapore? That's because you can't. Haha. Pardon me.

Anyway, after my shopping, I bought 3 tops and a pair of slippers. Therefore, I have spent RMB 180 (inclusive of food). It is S$36. I have not even touched S$50. =p If I am in Singapore now, I would have spent way more that $50 for these much of things. Well, it's late. Got to wake up early for work tomorrow. Enjoy another week in school pals! Work hard and don't slack my dear friends. I'm watching over you!!! =p

I have just reached home from a very late dinner. Today we acommpanied 黄小姐 to OT because she needed to help a French customer to configure his settings for his CV12. The customer said that he cannot watch adult and pay per view channels. It's sort of like our SCV but I supposed it is more advanced. We stayed in the office till 9pm today.

Then I proposed to 黄小姐 that we go back and out our stuffs first then we meet her at KFC. We wanted so badly to eat KFC. Haha. I have been graving to eat egg tarts ever since my sister mentioned it and guess what? KFC has egg tarts!!!

After we have put our stuffs, we headed out to take a trishaw to meet 黄小姐. RMB 3 (S$0.60) will do to take a trishaw from our place to KFC. This photo below is a photo that we took on the trishaw.

We've waited for 黄小姐 for a while till she came. This is what I ate. Hee. This set cost me RMB 23.90 (S$4.78) and I also ordered corn RMB 4.50 (S$0.90). But the corn is nothing much. Most of the things you see here, it's not what you see in Singapore. Their meals are all different. They don't have Zinger here! Drinks and all different too. CONCLUSION: ALL DIFFERENT!!! But it taste like KFC nonetheless. Oh, they serve this vege salad instead of coleslaw. Taste nice because it has corn in it. =)

This is Portugese egg tarts. This is what you will usually find in bakery and all. But I am really shocked to find it in KFC and it is delicious. For a box of 6, it is RMB 22.50 (S$4.50). But 黄小姐 told us that she will treat us the Portugese egg tarts because we have accompanied her throughout her OT.

Yar, in the end when we wanted to pay her, she didn't want to take our money. So, in the end, she treated us everything, which went up to RMB 100 plus. Gosh! She is really nice to us.

Anyway, update you on what I have been doing at work. Actually, nothing much. Ha! Since the last time I told you I have many things to do, then the rest of the days, since Thursday I think, I have nothing much to do. Just to do translation for 黄小姐, help her converse with customers in English, and still helping her to find dealers in Europe. Seriously, till now I still can't get used to the working from Monday to Saturday. So usually I will kind of slacken myself on Saturday, but yar, I still managed to complete my task. But just saying that it is not as efficient as from Monday to Friday.

Actually working here on Saturday is a good thing because I don't really have much to do here if they give us a break. But sometimes, it can be really tiring. Ahh... Don't bother about me, I'm a little incomprehensive on what I want. Today, I suddenly got sicked of doing translation. Hee. I was quite moody about it but I told myself to get a grip. Most likely when boss is back on Monday then we can propose to him, hopefully, the next phase of our project.

Anyway, it is 1.09am, should be turning in now.

30th May 2007, Wednesday - Video!

30th May 2007, Wednesday

Nothing much at work today. Just did some translation for 黄小姐, chat with some customers in English for 黄小姐 and chat for more dealers who are using the old version of the satellite receiver.

After work, we went up to 香兰's place to check it out. Outside their house, they are allowed to hang clothes and all. Never seen so much clothes hanging outside the corrider before. Very interesting though. After that, we went back to our place to put our stuffs and headed out to meet 黄小姐.

She brought us to meet her sister because Wendy wants to get product(s) for herself. We went to the place where we went shopping the other time, which is near 黄小姐's place. This is the oyster omelette I was talking about the other time. But didn't have the picture till now. This is not as fresh as the previous time so we didn't order. Furthermore, the uncle didn't want to make a new one for us as it was quite late already.

This is something new. You can say that it is dumpling. But I would say that it looks more like wanton, wrapped with minced chicken in it. The sauce is the sar chang jiang. The sauce that we dipped with the beef the first day when we arrived. Apparently, most of the sauce over the food is sar chang jiang. Very famous and tasty here. But too much of it can make you feel quite sick of it. But over this wanton is something new so still alright.

I have managed to take a video of the aunty making our chicken wanton. Very interesting and fast. Impressive skills. Haha. If I were to do it then I would suck at it. Duh! She's experienced. (I've posted the video above this. Apparently I put the video in here but cannot be viewed.) Enjoy!

This is the so called 'rice dumpling', that I've mentioned the other time too. Taste quite like it but nicer with this sweet syrup. Everything is stuffed till it looks like a sausage. Then cut out to be like this.

This is the soup that is accompanied with the 'rice dumpling'. Very nice. I have told you that it tasted like what my grandma makes every cny. I love it when it is very pepperish.

I think for the time being we wouldn't visit here because the lady boss is a little crazy. The picture of the soup above looks like the portion we had the other time but this time she said this is the big portion. I think she thinks that we are kids and do not know how to tell the difference. This 'big' portion is equivalent to the small portion we had the other time. Gosh! What a ripped-off.