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Posted by 城主 on December 24, 2012

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Recipe: Snow Skin Mooncake (冰皮月饼)

Want a taste of snow skin mooncakes in Singapore? Be prepared to shell out between SGD40 to SGD60 (about USD30+ to USD50+) per box of 8. Raffles Hotel , which has some of the nicest snow skin moocakes around, was among my favorites and theirs cost SGD64 per box of 8 this year. Snow-Skin Mooncake with Champagne Truffle & Ganache from Raffles Hotel. There's also the baked variety of mooncakes. The baked version contains a lot more oil and are typically stuffed with lotus paste/jam and salted duck egg yolks. Apparently, a bakery in Hong Kong came up with the snow-skin variety as a healthier offering. We're two hours away from the closest 'chinatown' and we haven't seen any snow skin mooncakes at the Asian supermarkets. There's the baked variety, which I don't like. As always, if I can't buy it, I'll make it. However, mooncakes are a royal pain to make. There's a reason for the hefty price tag, baked or snow skin, and it'...

Recipe: Lao Ban 老伴 style soy bean curd. 豆花

One fascinating thing about Singapore which I find endearing in an odd way is food fad. Something new, or in the case of soy bean curd, something updated, would appear on the market, tastes great, and for a period of time, would draw crowds of people obsessed with getting a taste - I included. Many long queues and a few 'copycats' or 'alternatives' later, the food may continue to draw a crowd, e.g. Koi bubble tea, or become part of the scene, e.g. apple strudel. But I may be outdated in my examples as it's been a year since we've been away... In the months before we left Singapore, it was soy bean curd which had the honor of being sought after for a while. I recall us buying tubs of the goodie from Old Airport Road Food Center and bringing to gatherings, and once, even to give away as breakfast to the early few who were working with me that particular morning. Since we have been making our own soy bean milk (a colleague gave me a very good Joyoung s...

AVNRT Ablation

I've been debating with myself for a few days whether or not to write about my eventful Tuesday at the University of Michigan. Afterall, I'm taking it easy resting at home. (I lie! I couldn't resist reading emails and working just a leeetttle beeeet.) Plus in the course of making my decision, I couldn't find much about others' experience online - maybe I could offer some personal thoughts as others think through their options. I'm of course not a medical professional, but here's what I know and why I decided to do what I did, with the full support of Leon. For this story, I've to go back a little in history. I did mention briefly bits and pieces in previous blogs but here's the full version. In 2003, while Leon and I were driving around Kallang Industrial Estate one lazy Sunday visiting factory sales, I bent to pick up my dropped wallet and stood up to my heart racing and pounding against my chest. You could see the throbbing through m...

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