7 facts about me

I'd been tagged by Happy Home Baker to do a "7 random facts about myself".

Here are the rules for tagging:

1. Link to my blog (tagger) on your blog.
2. Give seven facts about yourself.
3. Tag another seven bloggers by leaving a comment on their blogs and letting them know they were tagged and listing them (and their blogs) on your blog.

Here it goes:

1. My zodiac sign is "Cancer" - the crab!

2. During my twenties till I got married, I was "quite" adventurous. I'd scaled a few "mountains" with groups of friends. The first mountain was "Mt Ophir" in Malaysia. The most memorable one was the climb up Mount Kinnabalu in Sabah. You see, there were these 2 guys who thought there were the fittest among all (commandos). In the end, because of acclimatization they almost couldn't make it to the top!

3. I remembered my first travel by airplane in my mid twenty was to... Nepal - an unforgettable experience. I hope I can visit this country in future with my kids and husband.

4. I love trekking and backpacking very much. I'd visited countries such as: Vietnam, Sabah & Sarawak, New Zealand (self-drive with four friends), Europe, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Then, I could travel with a backpack, t-shirt & sandal and off I went. Now.... with two kids in tow, I can't do that any more! :(

5. We don't own a car. Most of the time, we commute by public transport.

6. I've a big family with total seven siblings. If my father & granny were still alive, we would have ten members (一家十口)!

7. I don't watch any drama serial. I like to watch cooking programmes. :)

Hope the above are not boring you. I don't have any one to tag since some had already been tagged. So I'll just let the tag ends here. Sorry!

Meme Time!

I was pleasantly surprised to be tagged by Happy Home Baker, my favourite local blog. I often visit her blog to get some yummy recipes to try and .... feed my two kids! Ha!

Here are the MeMe rules:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

Well, this is my first time being tagged. I shall try my best!

1. I live in an HDB exec apartment in the east.
2. My kids are in Primary 1 and kindergarten 2. I tried to cook/prepare their daily lunch instead of buying out. (A big headache everyday of what to prepare? )
3. I started my first bread making only in August last year.
4. I have quite a big kitchen. I'm using a 28L "Rowenta" mini oven with grilling, and rotisserie functions. I also own a heavy duty "Kenwood" Chef stand-mixer, which is really a great helper when kneading bread dough and I just discovered: whipping up cream in minutes:) I truly admire those who use their arm power to knead bread dough. I think I would lay flat the next day! lol!
5. Next, I hope to pick up the skills to make "chinese buns" (bao). This is one of my family's favourite. So far my 2 attempts failed :(

Ok, here are the bloggers I would like to tag:

1. Lily Wai Sek Hong: Amazing blog! She got whatever recipes you want! :)
2. The Cooking Diva

Have fun!

Lunch - malan noodle

This is our favourite makan place @ Expo!

We had our lunch here today and at the same time went to the various sales held there. My elder son ordered the "小笼汤包", whereas my younger son had the special fried rice.

小笼汤包

No wonder he liked it very much. The shop used short-grain rice 珍珠米. It's not easy to fry with this rice as its texture is sticky. The fried rice tasted hmmm....delicious!

麻辣面

Next we ordered this 麻辣面 with some minced meat. The noodle was spicy and very good except that there were little minced meat:( Overall we had a great meal :)