Chik's Crib: February 2017

28 February 2017

Chocolate Crack Cookies Recipe

Recipe February 28, 2017 0

It’s been a busy month.

I just moved house over here in Melbourne, where I’m now sharing a house with J, R, EJ and TY. It’s no mean feat to pack up all my belongings and move into a new area, and having to find my feet and start afresh again.

Not everything went smooth-sailing, and I got off to an especially rocky start. I touched down to Melbourne on Sunday evening right before my school started instead of the morning of, because Scoot had a flight delay (and my feedback email went unanswered one month and counting…). I reached our new property to find that my key was defective. (Of course, no one was home either.) My bedroom played host to an adventurous Giant Spider™, who survived multiple bashings with my dustbin throughout the night (curse the soft luxurious carpeting!) My metal bed frame bent during the transport, and after three hours of wrangling with EJ, we finally admitted that not all the screws are meant to go in anymore. Luckily, medical textbooks are nice and thick and heavy, and some of them now moonlight as a support for that vulnerable corner of my bed frame.

Don't Mess with Melaka! The Good, the Bad, and 50 Shades In-between: Souvenirs

Travel February 21, 2017 0

This is our list of the food products that Malacca is famous for. But it's not just enough to buy them from any random-o-store. Not all pineapple tarts are created equal!

Gula Melaka
This is the locally-produced palm sugar and is often featured in Asian desserts. If you come to Malacca, it's a shame not to bring some home with you. Cheng's@27 (in Singapore) serves decadent slices of gula melaka chiffon cakes, and online, there are many on-deh-ondeh inspired cakes that heaily features gula melaka.

Pro-tip! The darker the color of the gula melaka, the more pure they are. The lighter-shaded ones are cut with regular sugar. The cheapest that I've seen was RM10 for 2 bags, found at Medan Samudera, a market across the Maritime Museum.

Don't Mess with Melaka! The Good, the Bad, and 50 Shades In-between: Restaurants and Attractions

Travel February 14, 2017 0

There is a lot of food to try in Malacca, interspersed with some sightseeing attractions along the way. Because virtually everything to see - and eat - is concentrated in the same area, we trekked up and down the same few streets in our two days there. But there is so much to do, juxtaposed with only so much time (and only so much our stomachs can distend), that we had to forgo several things on our itinerary.

This is our run-down of everything we did in 2 mere days, as well as what I want to try on a return visit. It's a list of the delights that we chanced upon, and some of the things we would avoid (don't believe the hype online!). But I wouldn't want to badmouth Malacca too much and get on its bad side; after all, these signs are plastered everywhere.

High Tea at The Lounge @ Intercontinental Hotel

Singapore February 08, 2017 0

By Miss XS

High tea is such a guilty indulgent for me. I always feel that should be working instead of sitting around sipping floral scented tea from porcelain cups and nibbling on sweets. But what a luxury it is, to have high tea on a weekday afternoon knowing that everyone (else!) is hard at work.