Moon Festival

The date of the Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th moon day of the 8th Chinese lunar month. This year the first day of the 8th lunar month is August 31, 2008 and the Moon Festival is on September 14, 2008. Thus here we are...

feasting on durian flavored yellow yolked moon cake! Long live Tu-ti Kung!

Filipino Style Fruit Salad

Every time I am invited to a Filipino gathering, be it a birthday party, a farewell party or just a simple get together, I never missed this famous Filipino style fruit dessert they call Buco. I know back home many of the housewives love to prepare this dessert too but using slightly different ingredients. I have made it several times especially when attending our group potlucks but never once stick to one recipe. I like to modify a little bit to suit my liking. When I fixed this dessert today, I thought it better be in my blog for reference sake. So here I am!

Ingredients



1 1/2 cups whipped cream
1/2 cup condensed milk (also depends on how sweet you want it to be)
2 cans of fruit cocktail (drain syrup)
2 cans of coconut de nata (drain syrup)
1 cup of coconut flesh
1 apple (optional)
1/4 cup of raisins (optional)

Directions

1. Mix whipped cream and condensed milk together to a smooth texture.
2. Combine all of the other ingredients and mix well. Chill overnight. Easy peasy! :)

Mini Swensens Muak Lek

In fact I don't even know the name of this ice cream parlor Dee & Darz took us too. It's located in Muak Lek's town. While browsing the menu we thought ah! Look...they have Earthquake just like Swensen...they even have this...and have that! That's why as for now, Mini Swensen ML it should be unless someone can help me with the name! :)

As we stepped into this small ice cream corner cafe, we could feel the pink vibe all around us. In fact, it's not all about ice cream. MSML --for short, offer quite a number of stationary and cute hair accessories for sell. If I'm not mistaken, they even sell some cute ornaments!

cute glass!

The pink vibe! Yes, we sat on a cute white-pinkish painted with flowery table for 4 and browsed through the menu. The owner of the shop, seemed to be two elderly around their 40s-50s along with their high school daughter (spoke good English) apparently were indulging Thai soap operas before they sensed that there's customers! Parents continued gluing their eyes towards the tv while daughter dear took the orders.

I forgot who ordered what but these were the ice creams we enjoyed:

It wasn't bad afterall. In fact it was good! I love the jelly-like colorful garnish on my ice cream! It seems that ML ice cream lovers don't have to drive too far after all for the real franchised Swensens because MSML serves some yummylicious flavors too! Besides, this place is a good place to hang out, equipped with a/c, quite (except when owners are watching soaps), easy-to-follow-menu and inhance a bit of a shopping mood plus ice creams are twice cheaper! One thing, they should add music to the vibe or have they? :)

* The X means either finish or out of stock

*Look familiar?

*Creative!

I'll surely visit again if I happen to be in ML! This time I'll go for the earthquake! Only 59 Baht!

Novotel Cakes

When we were about to leave from The Mall yesterday, we decided to have a late evening tea when we reached home. So we decided to try Novotel Hotel's cakes this time. Apparently the kiosk has 30% off since it was closing time. So our appetites were triggered a bit. We bought a chocolate cake, caramel tart and a mecademia flavored cake which all in all cost us less than 130B.

As soon as we reached home, HH prepared peppermint hot tea and we took displayed the cakes. I was excited since anything mecademia you name it, I will be first in the row! Well, so I started digging the edge of this:

*blink-blink* ..........Eeeeeewwwwww! Not sure why it was too mushy and slimy but I told Hobbit that I ain't going to continue forking it into my mouth! Not even a slightest taste of mecademia in it and what is the bread-like thingy? Eeeww! Then Hobbit said even dare said something like put-it-there-and-i-will-deal-with-it-later phrase!

While I was with that disappointed gesture, he was enjoying his chocolate cake. I did taste it and honestly it was not spongy and soft at all despite the okay taste.

Then I thought the caramel should taste good because it's in a cute foil cup a piece of chocolate holding the signature of Novotel nicely. Well, I had a spoon and a spoon and another one and on until I finished the whole cup. It was quite sweet though but I expected it that way. What is caramel tart without the sugar??

Before long I noticed Hobbit has gobbled up the whole mecademia cake which I rejected earlier on. Hungry, was the excuse. Well said! No food wasted!

Huh! Falala said the little lamb because the next morning Hobbit got a terrible stomach ache thanks to the smudgy cakes! He called sick for the day and squatted the whole day journey! Ooh, I was fine thank God.

So I thought hmm...Was it really the cakes? So I had a chat with a colleague at school and told him about Hobbit's condition after the cheap late night discounted cake incident and guess what? He told me the same thing about being poisoned from eating Novotel's cake buffet. Not only my colleague admit to it, there's another person I later found out who experienced the same thing. Now what does that foretell about going for desserts at Novotel? Be extra careful!

Varieties at School Anniversary's Fair

My school celebrated its 5oth Anniversary today. I was expecting lots and lots of alumni to crowd the school or at least the covered court but it was otherwise. Nevertheless, the event was a successful one. I didn't take a lot of pictures since Hobbit Hub was using it most of the time plus the weather was hot! Here are some that I took from the event. Food of course! LOL!