Luo Han Guo Chrysanthemum Tea (羅漢果菊花茶) Recipe

I am not sure why we tend to have soar throat quite easily, so we prepare chrysanthemum tea to "cool" ourselves. Other than just using dried chrysanthemum flowers alone, we can also add honeysuckle flowers (金銀花) or luo han guo (羅漢果). We shared our recipe of Honeysuckle Flowers & Chrysanthemum Tea before, and this time, we are sharing our recipe of Luo Han Guo & Chrysanthemum Tea.

Ingredients:

2 luo han guo (羅漢果)

70 grams dried chrysanthemum flowers
2.5 litres water

Instruction:

1. Boil the water in a big pot.
2. Rinse dried chrysanthemum flowers.
3. Rinse the shell of luo han guo. Gently crack the shell of luo han guo using the handle of the knife. Open the fruit.
4. Put the dried chrysanthemum flowers and luo han guo into the boiling water, boil on high heat for 5 minutes, then simmer for 15-20 minutes.
5. Sieve the dried chrysanthemum flowers and luo han guo, serve the tea warm or chilled

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Making Temari Sushi with Children

We have been cooking with flour to make pancakes, pizza, bread, cookies and Hong Kong egglets. So I thought we shall cook something else together over the weekend. As we watched the mouth-watering sushi on Japan Hours (Channel NewsAsia) on Saturday, we decided to make some sushi on the next day!

We made temari sushi (temarizushi 手まり寿司). Oh, what is temari sushi?  Temari sushi are sushi balls that resemble temari, which are Japanese embroidered balls.

Making sushi helps children to develop fine motor skills as they mold the rice balls, cut the ingredients, and place the ingredients on to the small rice balls. Making temari sushi allows the children to unleash their creativity.

The children's creations

Ingredients:

2 cups rice

2 eggs

2 Japanese cucumbers

4 slices ham

Instruction:

1. Cook the rice with slightly more water than required (look at the marking in the rice cooker). This makes the rice slightly sticky.
2. Pan fry the ham.
3. Beat the eggs and pan fry.
4. Peel the skin of the cucumbers and remove the seeds. Peel using the peeler, or cut into strips, or cut into slices.
5. When the rice is ready, put into a big bowl to cool.
6. Place 2 tablespoons rice on cling wrap, twist up the ends of the wrap tightly, use your palm to roll the rice into a round ball.
7. Cut ham and eggs using knife or cookie cutters, decorate the rice balls.

Ideas:

• Use vegetable peeler to slice cucumber, wrap the strips of cucumber around the rice ball (refer to the photo above, the rice ball in the middle).
• Use strips of thin egg omelet to wrap around the rice balls.

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Making Takoyaki using Egg Waffle Maker

We made our homemade Hong Kong egglets (雞蛋仔) with our egg waffle maker. You may wonder, what else can be made using this maker?

Our suggestion - making Takoyaki! 

The children are not very keen in octopus, so we used ham and cheese instead. We also omitted the mayonnaise and takoyaki sauce as they are beyond my budget.

Our so-called takoyaki did not look like the usual takoyaki - ours was one whole piece of balls joining together! Nevertheless, it was delicious!

Adapted from Little Japanese Mama

Ingredients:

1 cup plain flour
1 1/2 tablespoon corn flour
2 eggs
2 cups water
1 teaspoon chicken stock
3 slices ham
2 slices cheese
Dried bonito flakes

Instruction:

1. Sift flour into a big mixing bowl. Add corn flour.
2. Add eggs, chicken stock and water. Mix well.
3. Pour the batter into a big measuring cup so that it is easier to pour into the egg waffle maker. Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
4. Cut the ham and cheese into small pieces, add to the batter.
5. Pre-heat the egg waffle maker. Coat the maker with a thin layer of vegetable oil.
6. Pour the batter evenly into the lower plate of the egg waffle maker. Close the cover, wait for 10 seconds, turn the maker.
7. Cook for about 3 minutes for the first piece. Subsequently, the cooking time can be reduced to about 2.5 minutes.
8. Place dried bonito flakes on top. 

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Homemade Hong Kong Egglets / Egg Waffle (雞蛋仔) Recipe

Hong Kong egglets (egg waffle) 雞蛋仔 is one of my favourite childhood snacks.

When I visited Hong Kong 2 years ago, I bought a 雞蛋仔 pan (HKD140) to make the delicious snack at home, so that Pei Pei and Hao Hao can share the joy of my childhood.

I was so excited to make egglets at home! However, after I tried once, the metal pan was sent to the "cold storage". The reason? As I was not skillful and was not well-prepared, when I flipped the pan, the batter flew all over the place, and I took long long time to clean up the stove.

Recently, I heard about an electric egg waffle maker and bought it at S$39 without much hesitation. Oh, I was so thrilled to make egglets without creating a big mess!

The children helped in preparing the batter, and I would be the chef operator using the maker, as it is too dangerous for the children to handle the hot equipment.

The children enjoyed eating so much that I only managed to "steal" a few to taste.

Recipe adapted from I Love Cake

Ingredients:
140 g all-purpose flour
7.5 g baking powder
28 g corn flour (or tapioca starch)
2 eggs
28 g vegetable oil
140 g sugar
28 g milk (or evaporated milk)
140 g water

Instruction:

1. In the first bowl, sift the all-purpose flour, baking powder and corn flour.
2. In the second bowl, add eggs and sugar, mix well. Add milk and water, mix until foams are observed.
3. Add the egg mixture into the flour mixture, add a small portion at a time. Mix well.
4. Add vegetable oil. Mix well.
5. Pour the batter into a big measuring cup so that it is easier to pour into the egg waffle maker. Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
6. Pre-heat the egg waffle maker. Coat the maker with a thin layer of vegetable oil. 
7. Pour the batter evenly into the lower plate of the egg waffle maker. Close the cover, wait for 10 seconds, turn the maker.
8. Cook for about 3 minutes for the first piece of egglets. Subsequently, the cooking time can be reduced to about 2.5 minutes.

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Big Hero 6 Baymax Bento - Baymax Onigiri

We were treated to watch Big Hero 6 last November, the children like Baymax, which gave me an idea to make a simple bento dinner for them.

Making ongiri (rice balls) does not require special tool, you just need to place the rice in a piece of cling wrap to make the shape required. Take note that when you cook the rice, add slightly more water to make the rice sticky, so it can be made into rice ball easily.

For the body of Baymax, there are many ingredients that you can use as fillings, for example, minced pork / chicken, salmon, bonito flakes and egg.

Pardon the funny decorations on the right, I wanted to make the xiao bai cai umbrella, but Baymax that I made was too big to stand under it!

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Green Tea Panna Cotta Recipe

Like me, the children have a sweet tooth, so I have been learning how to make homemade desserts for occasional treats for them. Yes, occasionally, since I don't want their weight (and mine) to grow exponentially. 

One of the easiest recipes for desserts, in my opinion, would be panna cotta. What is panna cotta? It is originated in Italy, and it means "cooked cream" literally. 

Ingredients:
200 ml milk
200 ml heavy cream
50 grams sugar
0.5 to 1 tablespoon green tea powder based on your preference
3 teaspoons gelatin powder


Instruction:

1. Heat milk, heavy cream and sugar in a pot over low heat (do not let it boil).
2. Sieve green tea powder into the pot.
3. Add gelatin powder.
4. Pour the mixture into containers, allow it to cool before putting into the refrigerator. 

For this amount of ingredients, we made 4 servings using chawamushi cups and glass bottles, each of us had 1 serving. Hope this would not make us put on too much weight!

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Mango Yoghurt Ogura Cake Recipe (相思蛋糕)

In the past, I didn't like to eat yoghurt. Somehow my taste buds changed over the years, now I enjoy eating yoghurt, and my children love it too.

Recently I learnt that yoghurt can be used in baking cakes! Oh, I know it is nothing new to the bakers, but it is a new discovery to me! It is also my first attempt in using steam baking method. The cake that I baked does not look very pretty, but it is soft, moist, and not too sweet.

Adapted from Food@Home Sweet Home

Ingredients:
Egg yolk mixture
3 egg yolks
2 tablespoons Canola oil
1 cup Meiji mango yoghurt
30 grams flour
a pitch of salt

Egg white mixture
3 egg whites
35 grams sugar
1/8 teaspoons baking powder (we didn't have cream of tartar on hand)


Instruction:

1. Line baking paper on the pan.
2. Prepare egg yolk mixture - beat egg yolks until foamy, mix well with Canola oil, and add in mango yoghurt, whisk for a few minutes. Pour these into a mixing bowl with salt and flour, mix until smooth.
3. Prepare egg white mixture - beat egg white in a clean bowl until slightly thick, add sugar and baking powder. Whisk until firm peak (See The Kitchn's illustration).
4. Pour hot water into the baking tray to about 1 cm in depth, put it at the lowest level in the oven, preheat the oven at 170 degrees Celsius.
5. Fold the egg white mixture into the egg yolk mixture.
6. Pour the mixture into the pan, tap the pan on the table a few times to removed trapped bubbles.
7. Put the pan on a baking rack, placed at a level above the tray of hot water. Bake for 40 minutes.

I used a 6-inch round pan, the cake turned out rather flat. I would increase the amount of ingredients or use my cupcakes cups next time.


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Sensory Play - Making Cookies Using Rubbing-in Method

The children love playing with dough recently - bread dough and pizza dough. It is interesting that the longer we knead the bread or pizza dough, the smoother and less sticky it becomes. 

Recently, the children had their hands on another type of dough - cookie dough. As the little hands were rubbing the butter into the flour, the mixture became something like breadcrumb. 

Before we started making cookies, I showed them a short video on rubbing-in method in making cookies. The chef in the video dropped the mixture from a distance above the mixing bowl to introduce air into the mixture, and the children followed. 

That reminded me of the "Lo Hei" during Chinese New Year. And the mess after that.

Instead of using spoons or cookie cutters, we used this whipped cream dispenser, which was bought from Daiso long time ago. I think I have kept it so well that I almost forget that I have bought it! 

It was a good practice to develop fine motor skill, as the children had to push the piston with one hand, and to use another hand to control the movement to make the desired pattern. 

Well, the cookies may not look very pretty, but they are yummy!


Ingredients:
100 grams plain flour
50 grams unsalted butter
50 grams sugar
1 beaten egg


Instruction:

1. Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl.
2. Cut the butter into small cubes, rub with flour with fingertips to make it look like breadcrumb.
3. Add sugar and beaten egg.
4. Put the mixture into refrigerator for 30 minutes.
5. Put some mixture into the whipped cream dispenser (we bought from Daiso) or piping bag to make the cookies. Preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.
6. Bake the cookies for 20 minutes.

Tips:

Make the cookies of about same size. We made some small and some giant cookies, under the same oven temperature and timing, the small ones turned out to be crispy, while the big one turned out to be soft inside.

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Watercress Honey Drink Recipe (西洋菜蜜)

Watercress honey drink (西洋菜蜜) is one of my favourite beverages, because it is sweet and refreshing. I ever bought the concentrated watercress honey syrup from supermarket in Hong Kong before, however, I cannot find this in Singapore. Yes, there are some restaurants in Singapore that offer this beverage, but at S$2+ per cup, I can only afford to order one cup at one time.

Finally, I manage to make watercress honey drink at home! It is actually very easy, and the children love it too!

Ingredients:

200 grams watercress 

1 honey date (蜜棗)

1 litre water

Honey / honey rock sugar (石蜂糖) to taste

Instruction:

1. Wash watercress, cut into half. Wash honey date.
2. Put watercress and honey date into boiling water, simmer for 45 minutes.
3. Add honey or honey rock sugar according to your preference, sieve and then serve either warm or chilled.

What is your favourite beverage?

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Making Homemade Bread with Children

My children love to eat bread very much, they would eat at least 2 slices in a day! But to them, bread is something that is available from the supermarket or the bakery. When I said that we could make bread at home, they did not believe me.

Over last weekend, we made our first homemade bread! There are a few things that the children can learn through bread making.  

Art

They can unleash their creativity as they shape the dough. 

Science

Observe the yeast in action! Even though they have seen the process of proofing when we made our homemade pizza, they were still very excited when they observed that the dough increase in size over time.

Character Education

As the process from making to enjoying the bread takes 2+ hours, I hope that they would learn to be patient. It also takes some hard work to knead the dough since we do not have a mixer, so I hope they would learn that food does not come about easily and we should not to take things for granted.

The children felt tired after kneading the dough for a while, so I had a good opportunity to exercise my muscles. 

After the first proofing, the fun began. See the funny shapes that we made!

Isn't this a good painting exercise?

Finally, we get to enjoy our fruits of labour!

Ingredients:

• 250 grams bread flour
• 25 grams plain flour
• 40 grams sugar
• 3 teaspoons instant dry yeast
• 0.5 teaspoons salt
• 100 ml warm water
• 80 ml warm milk
• 2 tablespoons canola oil (can use other vegetable oil except peanut oil, unless you like the peanut taste)
• 1 egg yolk + 2 teaspoons water for egg wash

Method:

1. Add yeast to water, leave it for 5 minutes.
2. Sift bread flour and plain flour into a mixing bowl. Add the yeast mixture from Step 1, sugar, salt and milk. When the ingredients are mixed, add canola oil. 
3. Knead for 10 minutes on a clean surface or inside the big mixing bowl.
4. Make the dough into a ball. Grease the mixing bowl with some canola oil and on top of the dough. Cover the mixing bowl with cling wrap and let the dough proof for 1 hour.
5. Divide the dough into a few portions, roll into smaller balls, shape the dough.
6. Put the dough on the baking tray that is lined with baking paper. Leave for 15 minutes. 
7. Preheat oven at 170 degrees Celsius.
8. Brush the egg yolk + water.
9. Bake for 20 minutes.

Tips:

• When kneading the dough, slam it on the surface, then fold it, and then push as if you are washing clothes on washing board.

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Easy Breakfast Recipe - Baked Egg and Ham Cup

Being a novice cook means my family does not get to enjoy a variety of homemade food. Or to be honest, I should say, my family does not get to enjoy tasty homemade food. 

Ever since I bought an oven some time ago, I make it work very hard as I am conducting more and more cooking experiments. After all, one thing I love about using oven is that the cleaning is much easier comparing to using frying pan!

Let me share with you a super easy breakfast recipe - baked egg and ham cup. Of course, it is not limited to be served at breakfast time, it can be great for tea time too!

Ingredients (for 1 serving):

• 1 Egg
• 1 slice of bread
• 1 piece of ham
• Some shredded cheese (the amount and type is based on your preference, we used Cheddar cheese)

Instruction:

1. Preheat the oven at 190 degrees Celcius.
2. Roll the bread flat and lay it in a muffin tray or pie mold lined with cupcake liner (can slight grease with butter instead). 
3. Place the ham on top of the bread.
4. Crack an egg on to the ham.
5. Sprinkle some cheese into the egg.
6. Bake for 16 minutes for a runny egg, or 20 minutes to make the egg cooked.

Notes: Depending on the size of the muffin tray or pie mold, not all the egg white is needed as it may overflow.

Isn't this baked egg and ham cup super simple? Even children can make this!

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Making Homemade Pizza with Children

When I was young, together with my mum, we made pizza at home in a few minutes time - simply use bread, tomato paste, cheese and ham, then put into the toaster oven for a few minutes. Yes, it is just that simple. Yet, it was priceless to me, as the making and eating pizza time was one of my favourite bonding moments with my mum.

Now, as my children are older and show interest in joining me to play in kitchen cook, I would involve them in cooking, since I feel that cooking is a good bonding activity. I took up the courage to make a traditional pizza with them. Yes, it took me some courage to do so. Because I have never made traditional pizza before, I was not sure whether I could make a proper pizza dough. And involving the children means I have to take more time to make the pizza.

However, the time was well spent.

The children learnt something new during the pizza making process - what yeast is and what it does to the dough. They were amazed to see the dough increased in size after a while!

They also learnt to roll the pizza dough and to make it as thin as possible.

They had a say in which ingredients they would like to use in their pizza.

Obviously, each of them has different preference, as you can tell that one of them likes mushrooms while the other one likes broccoli.

We followed the pizza dough recipe from Christine's Recipes. For the toppings, we sliced the mushrooms and ham, steamed the broccoli, and we used cheddar cheese as well as canned tomato paste (yes I know it is not healthy, but I was lazy to prepare from scratch). The oven temperature is 220 degrees Celsius and the baking time is 20 minutes.

Honestly, it was quite messy during the process - flour and the toppings on the table and the floor, and the children dirtied their clothes. While the children learnt during the process (10 things they can learn from cooking), I also have learnt - I need to keep myself calm when I see the mess, and take this as a teachable moment that the children bear a responsibility in cleaning up the mess!



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4-Ingredient Eggless Matcha (Green Tea) Ice-cream

The last time we made ice-cream at home was about a year ago - we made matcha (green tea) ice-cream for our ice-cream moon cakes.

This time, I try a new recipe that does not require eggs. The reason? I forgot to buy eggs!

Ingredients:

300 ml thickened cream
150 ml milk
0.3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons Matcha (green tea) powder (I bought mine from Phoon Huat)


Instruction:

1. Warm the milk in a saucepan over low heat, do not boil it. Add Matcha powder and sugar into the warm milk. Stir until matcha powder and sugar are dissolved. Allow the mixture to cool.
2. Whip the cream until it is thick and stiff.
3. Fold the mixture from Step 1 into the whipped cream using a spoon or spatula. 
4. Put the Matcha ice-cream into the freezer. Take it out for every 1 hour to mix well, this minimises the formation of crystals in the ice-cream and improves the texture. Repeat this step for 2 to 3 times.
5. Freeze it for a few hours or overnight.

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Soy Milk + Milo Agar Agar Mooncake

If you have not realised, it is two more weeks to Mid-Autumn Festival. 

Last year, I made matcha (green tea) ice-cream mooncakes, this year I decided to try something new - Soy Milk + Milo Agar Agar Mooncake!

Ingredients:

500 ml soy milk

500 ml water

60g Milo powder

12g agar agar powder (we used 1 packet Rose brand)

Instruction:

1. Boil water in one pot, add Milo powder when water is boiled, then with small fire, dissolve 6g (half packet) of agar agar powder.
2. Warm soy milk in another pot with small fire, dissolve 6g (the other half packet) of agar agar powder.
3. Add some Milo mixture into the jelly mould. When it is just solidified, add some Soy Milk mixture. Repeat until the whole mould is filled.

Tips:

• Before I added the mixture into the mould, I used water to gauge how much mixture I should add for each layer. 
• I placed the jelly mould on a tray of water to cool down the mixture faster.
• When the previous layer is just solidified, check by placing a small spoon and touch gently. However, do not wait until the layer is completely solidified, the layers may not stick when you remove the agar agar from the mould.
• To prevent the mixture in the pots from solidifying too fast, cover the pots with lids.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂!

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Milo Cupcakes

Since we bought the oven, I have been thinking of what we should bake next. Our first baking project basic cupcakes was quite successful, so this time, I thought of baking another variety of cupcakes - Milo cupcakes!

Ingredients (make 6 cupcakes):

100g flour (we used plain flour)

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 medium eggs

40g castor sugar 

80g butter

2 tablespoons condensed milk

100 ml milk

60g Milo powder (we used 2 sachets of instant Milo powder)

Instruction:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
2. Melt the butter in a sauce pan over low fire. Add sugar, condensed milk, milk and Milo powder. Stir until the sugar and Milo powder are dissolved.
3. Sift flour and baking powder in a mixing bowl
4. Beat eggs with a high speed for 1 minute, followed by a slower speed until it turns fluffy
5. Add the eggs to (2), followed by flour and baking powder
6. Divide the batter into 8 cupcake cups. Fill to about 70% of the cup.
7. Bake the cupcakes at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes

Our Milo cupcakes did not look really nice, because I accidentally turned the temperature to 190 degrees Celsius for a while! I think the temperature was too high and caused the cupcakes to "smile" (crack)! Anyway, Hao Hao loved the Milo cupcakes so much that he ate 3 of them!

Perhaps I shall try making Milo cream to decorate the cupcakes next time!

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Pancake Art at Home + Homemade Pancake Recipe

Water colour, colour pencils, markers, crayons... we didn't use these for our drawing last weekend. We drew with pancake batter. Yes, pancake batter!

Inspired by this daddy, I thought Pei Pei and Hao Hao may enjoy drawing with pancake batter.

See our not-so-professional drawings, can you make a guess what we drew?

It was quite messy, but we had lots of fun!

Ingredients for pancake:

2 eggs

30 grams butter (melted)

250 ml milk

1/4 cup sugar

1 3/4 cup plain flour

1.5 tablespoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

Some tips on making fluffy pancakes:

• Mix the dry ingredients (sugar, flour, baking powder and salt), and separately, mix the wet ingredients (eggs, butter, milk). Then add the wet mixture to the dry mixture.
• Do not overmix the batter - mix until the ingredients just combine, it is ok to be a bit lumpy.
• Start cooking as soon as the batter is prepared.
• Use medium fire to make the pancakes brown.

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Easy Cupcakes Recipe

It has been a while since we made cupcakes. As we did not have oven in the past, we made Japanese Mushipan (steamed bread). Recently, I bought an oven (finally), hoping to learn more about baking. I thought it was a good idea to get my children involved in my learning journey!

We embarked on our first baking project - cupcakes!

Ingredients (make 6 cupcakes):

110g flour (we used plain flour)

110g castor sugar 

90g butter (soften)

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 medium eggs

Instruction:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
2. Sift flour and baking powder in a mixing bowl
3. Beat egg with a high speed for 1 minute, followed by a slower speed until it turns fluffy
4. Add sugar to egg
5. Add (4) to (2), fold with a spatula
6. Add the butter and continue folding
7. Divide the batter into six cupcake cups. Fill to about 70% of the cup.
8. Bake the cupcakes at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes
9. Decorate the cupcakes with fruits that you like (e.g. strawberries)

This is so simple that even Pei Pei and Hao Hao can make (of course, with assistance from MaMi)!

Baking is such a fun parent-child bonding activity, and I think it is a good learning opportunity for the children. Stay tuned for more oven baked food recipes, and my thoughts about what children can learn from baking.

Do you enjoy baking with your children? Why?

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Green Bean Soup (綠豆湯) Recipe

We are a family of "heaty" people. Other than drinking Chrysanthemum tea with honeysuckle flowers to reduce heatiness and Ling Yang drink when we have high fever, recently, we make green bean (mung beans) soup.

It is very simple to prepare!

Ingredients (4 servings):

• 250 grams Green beans 
• 2 litres Water 
• Rock sugar (I use one small piece, you can add according to preference of your taste bud)

Instruction:

1. Rinse the green beans a few times to remove the dirt and remove the spoilt green beans if any. Place the green beans in a bowl of water and leave it for 30 minutes.
2. Bring the pot of water to boil, add in the green beans, boil at medium high heat for 10 minutes, and lower the heat and simmer for another 40 minutes. 
3. Add the rock sugar, stir until the rock sugar is dissolved.

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Miffy and Easter Egg Bento

Another two weeks to Easter, so I prepared a simple bento - Miffy and Easter Egg Bento!

The ingredients are very easy to prepare - steamed carrot, steamed chicken fillet and hard boiled egg. Miffy's dress is cheese.

Pei Pei helped me in making the rice balls. She helped me to put some rice on to cling wrap, and helped to make the shapes. 

Just before they started to eat, Pei Pei asked, "How come the rabbit does not have hands?"

Uh oh...

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Minion Bento

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-nana~

Ever since they watched Despicable Me 2, they have fallen in love with the Minions and they kept singing Banana song. 

They have been asking me to prepare Minion bento for them. I  dragged for a few months before I actually made Minion bento. I must say I salute myself for being able to drag so long despite their constant reminders nagging.

The Minions are made of egg. Some egg white is used to make the eyes and the remaining egg is used to make the body. Seaweed is used to make the pupil of the eyes, mouth and body.

Pei Pei and Hao Hao were happy to eat up the Minions!

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