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In KL, a normal office worker usually have hawker food or restaurant food for lunch, there are varieties to choose from. Mixed rice, char kuey teow, chee cheong fun, laksa, wan tan mee, pan mee, pork noodle, nasi kandar, nasi lemak, mee goreng, pizza, pasta, McDonald's, KFC, sushi, teppanyaki and many more. Malaysian really enjoy food, it's a food heaven.

When I come to London, I notice most of the office worker eat very light for lunch. The normal lunch are sandwiches (all type of sandwiches, including normal sandwich, wrap sandwich, panini, baguette, roll and etc). Among different type of sandwiches, there a lot of different in term of fillings: beef, chicken, lamb, pork, ham, fish, vegetables. I can't really accept the truth of a big English man is eating only sandwich for lunch when I first come across!? I've accepted now b'cos I'm eating sandwiches for lunch these day. :D

McDonald's and KFC are selling sandwiches too.

Friends asked me what do I eat during lunch, well, I eat sandwich from Subway, McD and local sandwich stores. Sometime I make my own sandwich. These are bagels I make.

When I first seen this recipe from my recipe book. I was wondering how is the taste, can a black sesame and cheese a match? I want to find out the answer, therefore I make it.

Sponge Cake Ingredients

(A)
200g Sponge Mix
1 teaspoon vanila powder
3 Eggs
40ml Water

(B)
40ml Coocking Oil

Cheesecake Ingredients

(C)
250g Cream Cheese
40g Sugar

(D)
150ml Milk
35g Sugar
15g Black Sesame, toasted and ground

(E)
1 Egg

(F)
1 1/2 teaspoons Gelatine
60g Warm water

(G)
160g Whip topping cream, whipped

Steps to bake the sponge cake base

1. Pour (A) into mixer, and mix well.
   
   
2. Beat the mixture until creamy and flufty.
3. Add (B) slowly and mix well.
   
   
4. Pour into 9" square mould. Bake at 180 ºC for 35 minutes.
   
   
5. Invert cake into a wire tray for 5 minutes. Then turn over to prevent cake from sinking in the middle.
   
   

Steps to make cheesecake topping

1. Beat (C) until light and smooth.
   
   
2. Bring (D) to the boil. Pour it into (E) slowly. Stir until well blended. Cook over low heat while stirring constantly. cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
3. Mix (F), Stir until gelatine dissolves. Add it into the sesame and egg mixture and mix until well blended.
4. Place it in an iced water bath. Stir until the temperature drops down to 25 ºC.
   
   
5. Add it to (C) and mix well combined.
6. Fold in (G) and mix until well blended.
   
   
7. Fill the cake mould with cheese filling.
   
8. Refrigerate for 4 hours or until firm.
   
9. Remove the cake mould. Spread some glazing gel on top.
   
   
10. Cut into small pieces, decrorate with cream rosettes and mints leave. Try to avoid "ready to whip" whipped cream, otherwise will end up like mine, the whip cream melted before I can take a good shot.
    
    

Comments from my fellow colleagues who has try out:
eatinout: The taste is ok, black sesame and cheesecake is not a good match.
GY: ...The milk taste is strong...
SJ: The cheese topping and sponge base have very clear distinct taste.
PW: I can't find the cheese flavor at all.
TY: Very Chinese.

My comment: Toasted black sesame seeds has very strong nutty flavour, it gave off the fragant odor once it's grinded. I relate this to black sesame paste (黑芝麻糊, a Chinese dessert) when smelling. Well, this is something new to me, I've very complex feeling on my first bite too, it taste good after all, and I ate 2 slices immediately.

If you love cheesecake because of the strong cheese taste ( like American or Marble cheesecake), then you may not like this. The sesame flavour and milk taste (due to milk and whip cream) are stronger than cream cheese, therefore it will not give you strong cheese flavour.

Do you wonder how does a black sesame cheesecake taste?



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Today I’m going blog something different, a recipe! I was craving for something sweet, so decided to make a Tiramisu!

I do have few Tiramisu recipes on hand, all have slightly differe in ingredients. Some is using egg white; some is using egg yolk; some is not using egg at all. I don't know which is the most original Tiramisu recipe, thus I choose one of the simplest I have.

Ingredients

A)
2 Egg Yolks
50g Sugar

B)
1 teaspoon Gelatine
35ml Water

C)
250g Mascarpone Cheese

D)
150g Whip topping cream

E)
150ml Warm Water
80g Sugar
4 teaspoons Instance Coffee Powder
2 teaspoons Kahlua (or any coffee liquer)

F)
6 pieces Lady Fingers (Sponge Fingers)

G)
Cocoa Powder

Clockwise from the top left: Mascarpone Cheese, Lady Fingers (Sponge Fingers), Ingredients for Coffee Syrups (Kahlua, instant coffee powder, sugar), Gelatine.


Method

1. Whip the whipping cream and set a side for later use (keep in fridge)
   


2. Whisk (A) over a pan of simmering water until it thickens.


3. Mix (B) and place over a pot of hot water. Stir until gelatine dissolves. Add it into (A) and mix until well blended. Set aside to cool for a while.
   


4. Beat (C) until smooth. Fold it into the above mixture and mix until well blended.
   
   
5. Fold in whipped cream (D) and mix until well combined. (Caution: Fold it lightly or else you will spoil the texture!)
   


6. Mix ingredient (E) to make coffee syrups. Let it cool down.
   


7. Cut the lady fingers into sections.


8. Prepare 6 serving glasses (or any container you want to keep the tiramisu). Fill the glasses with some cheese filling. Dip the lady fingers into coffee syrups and place it on the cheese filling. Fill some more cheese filling and top with soaked lady fingers. Top it with cheese filling and refrigerate until firm (forgot to snap photo for this step).


9. Remove from the fridge and dust with cocoa powder.
   

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My family has a tradition of making Popiah during Qing Ming Festival and Ghost Festival. Yesterday was Qing Ming, so its popiah time. Mom has prepared quite a lot, my sister was bringing her colleagues and friends home for popiah.

I return home late, too bad, I can only can eat the left over.
These are the left over, some of the ingredients already finished, still taste good though. :D


To make a popiah, first spread the sweet sauce (we use Lee Kum Kee hoisin sauce) and homemade chillies sauce on the popiah skin.


Place all the ingredients together, jicama (sengkuang) filling (mixed with minced meat, prawn, carrots, string beans, chinese sausage, tofu, mushroom), deep fried onion, grinded peanut, bean sprouts, vegetables, cucumbers.


Wrap and that’s it. It’s yummy.

My mom’s popiah is fantastic, therefore I’ll hardly want to order popiah from restaurant outside, the quality has no way close to homemade popiah :p

Anyway, these only some left over food for me, check out boo_licious blog, she has a wonderful popiah party last week.


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Had dinner at home, mummy cooked. This is the true "home-style", 4 dishes plus soup.