Peony 牡丹 Themed Gartien 2014 CNY Promotion ~ Pineapple Cake Review

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Since it is already last month of the year where I suppose all of us are having a thanksgiving season aka Christmas followed by a brand New Year as well as the most anticipated festive season where everything is going to be in red, filled with lots of auspicious words & most of all for those unmarried ones we are gonna get ANG POWS(red packets)!!! :D 

Counting down to CNY it's only one month plus away Huraay!!  Wondering why I only count down to CNY?  It's because I can't celebrate Christmas nor New Year for this year due to FINALS T.T sad case whey!  Last year during New Year I was imprisoned at NS camp, this year & next year exam conquers all == 

Now back to the main purpose of me being here today which I've sorta aforementioned on my Dayre, thanks to Gartien for giving me this box of their signature Pineapple Cakes :D  

Combo of Red & Gold colour is definitely the epitome of colours to act as a CNY reminder!

Honestly speaking, Pineapple is one of the fruit that I hate the most!  However, when it comes to pineapple pastries namely pineapple tarts or pineapple cake which is a CNY must have item in my household, I would say Gartien's Pineapple Cake managed surpassed my selective taste buds :P

Once you unwrap the packet, I'm rest assure that the buttery taste will eventually make your mouth water or at least mine hehe! In addition, having chunky pineapple puree filling which is just nice to my liking (ain't too sweet is the main factor) in the core just made this a heavenly bite.  

You might not get what I mean entirely till you taste it for yourself. :D

Fyi, this is Gartien's CNY 2014 Auspicious gift set promo, therefore they only have a

 limited 1000 sets for grab!  

This is an ongoing  promotion that you might not wanna miss as it's on RM 38.00 per set for pre-order from now till 31st December 2013

OTHERWISE

For orders after 31st December 2013 or walk in purchases, it will be RM 45.00 per set

difference of RM 6.00 could help you to buy yourself a main meal :P  So do act fast to grab for their fresh pastries as they will only have 250 sets per week from 30th December 2013 till 26th January 2013 or else sold out!

Wonder where to get it?  You may order from:

GARTIEN @ 小田佳園

68, Lorong Macalister, 

10400 Penang, Malaysia.

Contact: 604-229 0068

Website: www.gartien.com

Email: info@gartien.com

FaceBook: www.fb.gartien.com/

Business Hours: 

10.00am-5.00pm (weekdays), 

9.00am-6.00pm (weekends)

Last but not least for pre-order 10 sets they will either

free you a box of 10 nicely pack Pineapple Cakes or free delivery

Will most probably be MIA for a longer period this time due to finals.  In the mean time, you may check me out at via my micro blogging site @ http://dayre.me/rachaelimm/ ^_^

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The Making of 'Crispy ♥ Letters'

嘿哟！大家好， 我又在回到这儿来了！
Hey yo!  Hello everybody, I'm back here again!

Hopefully there's no misused of Chinese characters in my greetings, fyi I sucks at my Mandarin and I know that's really a disgrace to my race when I can cope better with English & Bahasa Melayu but not my own mother tongue.  :P  Should really brush up my primary level Mandarin, but how???  Forget it but thank God I still can speak quite fluent or else worse.

Now back to the main point I'm about to share with you guys!  It's gonna be about the traditional Chinese dainty must have biscuits during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration which is mostly known as 'Kueh Kapek' in Hokkien/'Kuih Kapit'(since it sounded like a fusion of Mandarin & BM, I guess this is how the Baba & Nyonya called it, different spelling but almost the same pronunciation) or also known as Crispy Love Letters (nice name right?!).   This crispy biscuits usually have rough surface as its emblazoned with auspicious words which made every single piece of it to look so delicate.  Things that look and taste good are surely not easy to be prepared as you munch, the process of making this particular biscuits is very laborious and could only be completed in several hours (approximately 4-6 hours depending on the number of helping hands).  No matter what it is this traditional biscuits are definitely still in high demand during this festive season since CNY would not be complete without these essential servings for the family members as well as visitors.  No wonder this biscuits never fail to make its appearance in my house every year when CNY is around the corner.

So now let me show you how the "Kuih Kapek" was prepared:

Setting up the charcoal grill

arghh!  Eggs & castor sugar.  The day I've cracked the most eggs.  Count those egg yolks if you are curious to know about the number of eggs I've cracked.  

#instagrampictureuploadedlive

Sifu (master) of the day in action!...checking my mixture XD & sieved the mixture after adding in the santan (coconut milk) and rice flour.

oopsy!  obscene picha being snapped candidly :P

My meal during my 偷懒 period :P
Double boiled erm..erm...something 'Coconut...Chicken Soup' ps. I've forgot the exact name >< but its some sort of healthy yet yummieh soup!
Bought from "Yummy Yummy Cafe" for RM8 if I'm not mistaken.
Worth the price & I'm gonna try to cook it next time!

Sorry gonna be slightly out of topic...

random caption of my toe nails art
nice?  I named it 'Art Attack' ;)

whispers* Hints of the psshh...Secret Recipe/recap of the ingredients needed:

1. Rice flour

2. Castor sugar 

3. Tapioca flour

4. Eggs

5. Santan (coconut milk)

Simple right?   Why not try making yourself some with your family members so you could enjoy home made 'Kueh Kapek' as well as spending time meaningfully with your love ones?

sniff*sniff*  Can you smell the aroma of the freshly charcoal fired 'Kapeks'? ;)

Presenting our fruits of labour at the end of the day with just 1kg of rice flour
 (around 10-12 containers which vary in sizes)
^_^

With that we ended our day productively and headed to Northern Beach Cafe for our late dinner...or I should say supper.

Yosakoi Parade 2013 @ Esplanade, Penang

Hi peeps!

This time I'm making a short post about the Yosakoi Parade which was held at one of Penang's celebrations hotspot, namely Esplanade.  As usual, after dinner my family and I will definitely find some places to stroll, mostly at shopping malls but this time we went over to Esplanade after we knew that there were some ongoing procession in the city ;)  

I only knew what's Bon Odori and this is actually my first time hearing about Yosakoi, so, what else would I do if not google it to get detail information about the 'Yosakoi' thingy.  What I've found out from the Wikipedia was, 'Yosakoi' is a unique style of dance originated from daah! Japan of course since the name itself already sounded so Japan-ish, and it also means come at night.

Do take a look at the video I've simply made from those videos I've recorded with my smartphone on that night.

For more detail information about this particular cultural celebration, I suggest you to visit Penang Yosakoi Parade 夜來祭 or George Town, Penang Facebook page(a page with updates of  various happenings in Penang).

Here's the POTD

to end this post

<3 that's my Mummy

Sayonara!