Gaah i've been so very busy during Chinese New Year...well, it's mostly playing cards and stuff, but still. I haven't spent any time on bloody LAWR homework, and have only managed to read my Contracts textbook sporadically.
Sigh...i wanted to try making kimchi during Chinese New Year, but it seems kinda impossible now. (Why make kimchi? Er hem.) Tomorrow (or rather, later today), i'll have to play host and do some running in the morning, so there's really no time to be buying Chinese cabbages, salting them and adding in all the other stuff and preserving the mixture to make kimchi.
Another day i suppose. Haiz. In the meantime, i'm going to avoid talking to Coco's mum; otherwise, she'll ask me how the kimchi went, and then i'd have to hang my head with shame and tell her that i haven't even started on the project yet, despite her giving me a head-start by passing me a whole container of chilli powder MADE FROM CHILLI THAT IS GROWN IN HER MOTHER'S (meaning Coco's grandmother's) GARDEN, WHICH IS LOCATED IN KOREA...MEANING THAT IT'S FREAKIN GENUINE TRADITIONAL ORGANIC HOME-GROWN KOREAN CHILLI. Urgh.
Ahwell...moving on...to sort of make a bookmark, i also want to try to make BRITISH BEER BATTERED FISH AND CHIPS in the future! Mwahahaha...why, you ask? It's because British fish and chips is one of my most favourite dishes of all time! XD
I mean, well, good local food is available nearby on the cheap (Bedok South Market for
Hill Street Fried Kway Teow, Joo Chiat for
Fei Fei Wan Ton Mee, East Coast Road for
Beach Road Prawn Mee, Qi Ji @ Changi General Hospital or Katong area for
Laksa, ECP or Upper East Coast Road for
Black Pepper Crab, and for everything else, there's Bedok North Block 85, Marine Parade's hawker centre, that place outside Bedok Camp, and Lagoon @ ECP...home's got good food too).
Steak from Jack's Place @ Parkway or Aston's @ Katong/Bedok seem good enough for me, i like Ramen from Ichiban Ramen @ Parkway and Waraku @ Katong and ECP, Sakae Sushi is a decent place to get my sashimi fix (although only BUFFETS can really satisfy me) and my McDonald's double-cheese burger and my Kentucky (Fried) Chicken can be easily acquired as well.
But British fish and chips? Well, the store in Siglap closed down a long time ago, and every other place that i know of are too far from home (meaning further west than Katong) and too expensive (meaning at least $8 for just a small bite of heaven). For your information, Fish & Co and Swensen's don't sell BRITISH fish and chips (for one thing, i don't see the vinegar), and let's not even mention Long John Silver's...
My mum has tried to make fish and chips in the past, but although she deserves credit for the effort, it's just too...different. The fish is nice and thick, but tastes different and is usually TOO thick. And the batter is made using just corn flour and something else which gives rise to a batter that is a little too thin and is more appropriate for chicken.
Anyway, i've done some research and found a recipe online...time to go try it out! :)
After this semester, of course. Bleah. :|
PS: After British fish and chips, i'm moving on to Spaghetti Vongole! :p
