There a few steps need to be followed to do this home made chocolate. Before these, preparing all these ingredients before you get started : Dark cooking chocolate, white cooking chocolate, Whisky, hazelnut, and mould. You can actually buy these all at the cake and biscuit ingredient shop. So now we can start to do this Valentine Home Made Dark Chocolate.

* Dark Cooking Chocolate – My gf told me that this type of chocolate can’t be eaten before it melts, do you have any idea?

* White Cooking Chocolate

* Whisky – Add a little bit of whisky into the chocolate could make its’ taste better.

* Hazelnut & …

* Cut the dark cooking chocolate into small pieces a put it into the steel bowl and put the steel bowl into hot water. It’s to melt the dark chocolate to liquid.

* Melting process. Use a spoon and keep stir it.

* Keep stir it non-stop until it becomes liquid.

* The dark chocolate is in liquid right now.

* Mix the liquid dark chocolate with white chocolate because we worried that the dark chocolate was too bitter. You can skip this step if you want a pure dark chocolate taste.

* Stir it non-stop until it melts…

* It’s done now, the mixture of dark and white chocolate is in liquid now.

* Add some whisky into the liquid chocolate, add more if you love the strong taste of whisky with the chocolate.

* So you can now fill the chocolate into the mould that has been prepared earlier. You can take whatever shape of mould that you like. Remember not to fill it until full, just fill half of the mould because we still want to put in the hazelnut. You can change it to peanut, fruit, whisky or whatever things you like.

* That is how it’s looked like, please ignore the dirty part besides the mould.

* Now put the hazelnut into a bowl and mix it with some chocolate, so that it can stick with the half chocolate. If you don’t do so, after you’ve filled in the upper part, the hazelnut will be floating to the surface of chocolate.

* Put 1 hazelnut in each of the mould. After this, put it into the fridge for 10-15 minutes to make it solid. Now continue with the second mould, the same steps as above.

* So I fill the chocolate into the 2nd mould. Remember, follow the steps as above.

* The chocolate is not enough to fill into the mould, so just leave it like this. It was considered a completed chocolate, it was done by me!

* This is the first mould of chocolate, it was took out after 10-15minutes from the fridge and fill in with the upper part. It was done by my gf!

P/s : Not to stop the stir process, keep changing the hot water so that the chocolate can be staying in liquid style. That’s mean you might need 2 persons to make this chocolate, so make it with your love 1 in Valentine Day is the best time ever!

After the chocolate had been filled in with the upper part, all of them had been put into the fridge for few hours for better taste. I’d eaten the chocolate, it was too big because of the mould, in fact the mould was used for making jelly. But, the taste was good and it was full of LOVE!

Have you made any chocolate together with your love 1 before?

* Steambot Chicken Soup – This was the soup which my mum boil it with chicken since morning, the soup was already taste great before we put in all the ingredients. As you know, by putting all the seafoods and vegetables into the steambot soup can make the soup to be more fragrant!

* Fish Head – We all love fish head instead of fish meat because the meat for fish head is more delicious and smoother than fish body meat. It’s one of the killer-ingredient to make the soup to be more delicious and aromatic.

* Tiger Prawn – The meat for tiger prawn will be more tough compare with normal prawn. Some people like it and some people don’t like it, I have no idea because I’m not a prawn lover.


* White Prawn – It’s White Prawn or normal prawn. The meat for white prawn will be softer.

* Sotong – I’m not really like this because it’s bit hard for bitten, but not 100% ignore it also, I just had some of it.

* Squid – I forgot whether I had eaten it.

* Fish Ball – My mum bought it from Pasar in the morning, it was fresh. I’m not a fish ball lover because sometimes they’re not fresh and stenchy.

* Meat Ball – I love meat ball! It’s a must for me while eating steambot.

* Black Pepper Sausage – Usually people take black pepper sausage for BBQ, it was my first time having black pepper sausage in steambot style. The taste was quite good, but BBQ better.

* Mushroom – I forgot whether I had it too.

* Gold Needle Mushroom – I have no idea about what to call this in English, normally we call it “Kam Zham Gu” in Cantonese.

* Fu Pei or Fu Zhok – It’s really must for steambot! It’s rarely to see this type of Fu Pei in KL, but normally we had this in Taiping. It’s my favourite!

* Bao Choi Fa – Don’t know what’s this called in English too.

* Bo Li Shang Vegetable – Don’t know what’s this called in English too.

* You Mak Vegetable – This was something that I ate in Choong Kee Craypot Chicken Rice Restaurant.

* Laver – Usually we just put it in and rarely eat it, but it will stick with other ingredient. So end up we will finish it too.

* Fried Oil Garlic – We put some into the Steambot soup to make it more tasty.

* We put all the ingredients on the table.

* Ok, put all in together already. Used a cover and covered it, let it cooked for about 15-20 minutes until all the ingredients were cooked.

* Yeah! It’s ready to eat!

* KampungKok Chili Sauce

* Sambal Sauce

* “Cili Padi“, KampungKok Chili Sauce and Tomato Sauce

Of course, we can’t missed out all the sauces to be eat together! Usually I will just eat the tomato sauce and mix some Fried Oil Garlic insides, it was a great sauce! We got noodle too, but nobody ate it because everyone was very full after 2-3 rounds fighting with all the ingredients.

It was absolutely a great family steambot during Chinese New Year, I missed it so much! Other than eating, we chat and laughed together, it was a great and awesome dine with my family during CNY. I wish everyone all the best and good health!

Have you eaten such type of homemade steambot with your family or friends before?

During Chinese New Year, I had a lot of CNY dishes that cook by my lovely mum. Other than this, there was a lot of Chinese New Year Biscuit as well! Just some of them made by my mum and grandma, for the rest, my mum bought it. All were packed nicely in bottles. Here we go..

* Bee Nest Biscuit

* Butter Biscuit

* Crab Stick Biscuit

* Nga Gu Biscuit – This is my favourite and I think many of you like it too, right? My mum and grandma made it.

* Peanut Biscuit – My mum and grandma made it. It’s very smooth and melt when you put into your mouth, but there is few little peanut for you to bite too, I like it so much! My mum sold it in RM15-RM20 (If I’m not mistaken) last year, but didn’t sell any this year due to moving house, so she had no time no made more for sale.

* Pineapple Biscuit

* Shu Fen Biscuit

Here were all the biscuit I had during the Chinese New Year in my hometown. The life during Chinese New Year in Taiping was really enjoy: eat, play, sleep! Repeat.. and become PIG!

So, have you eaten the biscuit that I share above? Or you have any other biscuit which is not in the list above?

During Chinese New Year in Taiping, I played a lot and ate a lot. The only thing I didn’t do was I didn’t try any other Taiping food as I planned earlier, because I had no time to go anywhere other than meet friends. That’s fine, now we go on the foods that my mum cooked.

* Pork Roll – My grandma made it, cool right? But it was a little bit salty for my liking because she put too much soy sauce, but it was fine to eat with rice.

* Ji Kiong Duck – My mum cooked it, it was really delicious and more nicer compare with the Ji Kiong Duck in Wong Kok Restaurant which I shared before. The sauce is thick and the taste is really good.

* Tuber Crops with Porks (Wu Tao Kao Yok) – My grandma is expertise in cooking this dishes, this is what we all love during Chinese Festival. Usually she will cook 3 – 4 bowl in 1 time.

* Sour Cucumber – This is my favourite as well, mum cut the cucumber in slices and cook it with vinegar.

* Steam Chicken – Normally I will just eat 1 or 2 pieces, after that my mum will fry it with soy sauce on the next day.

* Fried Pork Rib – Usually you will eat those pork rib without fried, right? But we used to eat pork rib after fried, my mum fried it with some sugar and soy sauce, it’s more delicious than the normal one.

* Garlic Fried Chicken – My mum fried the chicken with garlic, as you see the chicken is scorch right? It’s not scorch but that’s the garlic. The taste is different compare with the normal fried chicken.

* Vegetables (Bao Cai Hua) – It consists of few different ingredients. I like to eat the one has green leaf at the top but I don’t know what its’ name.

* Mushroom & Chicken Leg Soup – It’s fresh and healthy enough, it boiled with mushroom, chicken leg and spareribs.

* Fresh Vegetable – It’s fresh and healthy vegetable, we can eat it without cook. Usually we mix it with few dishes and eat together with the vegetable. Normally I will mix it with fried pork rib, tuber crop, Ji Kiong duck and sour cucumber is a must. All wrapped with vegetable and put it into your mouth, yummy~
Have you tried to eat like this way before?

There will be few Chinese New Year dishes post coming up soon, do you have any Chinese New Year dishes to share with us? What you normally eat at home during Chinese New Year?

The Mage Cafe has set lunch everyday, the set lunch will be changing everyday. Usually they have 2 types of set lunch which is chicken set or fish set, the taste and sauce for the chicken and fish set are changing everyday, so you can eat different types of set lunch everyday. Most probably I will just order their set lunch and my friends will order the popular fried rice which is Mage Fried Rice.

* Honey Soy Sauce Chicken – The chicken is extremely delicious, it’s just like what I eat at home. I like the sauce, thumbs up!

* Fried Wan Tan – I think we can call it Fried Sui Gao too, this Fried Sui Gao comes with the set lunch. It’s very crispy and not too oily, very delicious!

* Vegetable which comes with the set lunch too.

* Lotus Soup – I don’t think you can drink such soup in some other restaurant, it’s like what we drink in our house that made by mum. They change the soup everyday which we can try many different types of soup every day. All the soup are very fresh, it comes with set lunch or RM4.90 for A La Carte.

* Desert – A very healthy desert which comes with set lunch.

* Honey Soy Sauce Chicken Set Lunch – That’s the lunch set I ordered which consists of Honey Soy Sauce Chicken, Fried Wan Tan, Vegetables, Lotus Soup and Desert. The set lunch only cost you RM8.90, worth it right?

* Mage Fried Rice – That’s the Mage Fried Rice that what my friends usually ordered. The Mage Fried Rice consists of Fried Chicken, fried egg and fish biscuit. The fried rice is very delicious, it’s Penang style fried rice. When the waitress bring it out from the kitchen and you can smell the fried rice from far away, it’s a recommended fried rice! It cost you only RM8.50.

* First Love Soda Drinks – It’s called First Love, you have the feel of First Love when you drink it? I’m just kidding, lol! It’s something like Soda drinks with Rebena taste, fruity and sweet taste, sweet like First Love right?

* They have many different types of games which you can play over there, they only charge you about RM2.50 per hour for 1 game if I’m not mistaken.

* The place that you can play the games, or reading magizines there. A very relax and comfortable seat.

That’s a comfortable place that we can take our meal over there, I strongly recommend you to try this restaurant. The price is consider cheap and you can enjoy the good foods and environment, worth it!

The total amount for the lunch for 4 persons.
1 Honey Soy Sauce Chicken Set Lunch – RM8.90 c/w Honey Soy Sauce Chicken, Fried Wan Tan, Vegetable, Lotus Soup, Desert and 1 glass of plain water
3 Mage Fried Rices – RM8.50 x 3 = RM25.50
1 First Love Drinks – RM4.50

TOTAL AMOUNT – RM38.90 (No service tax or government tax!)

Address :
THE MAGE CAFE
32, Jalan SS22/21,
47400 Damansara Jaya,
Selangor
Tel : 03-7710 3648

Business Hours : 11am – 11pm (I’m not sure whether they opens on Saturday and Sunday because I only took lunch there on weekdays)

View the map in Google Map. In case you don’t know, it’s just besides the Splash Gamuda.

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First, my mum cook a bowl of water with pandan leaves, then put some sugar to make it sweet. Then she put the flour on the plate, mixed it with the sugar water just now. Then she started to twist it until it became solid.

* It’s only one part of the “solid flour” that had been twisted.

After twisting it for about 30mins, we started to make the Tang Yuan in sphere shape.

* That was the sugar water, we need to use that when the flour became dry and I can’t make the flour in sphere shape.

By the way we were making the flour in Tang Yuan shape, we watched TV too. There was a Korean Movie that time, it was talking about a 200 Pound’s Lady’s Love Story, a very touching love story! After about half an hour, we had done all the Tang Yuan.

* All the Tang Yuan was done! There was small Tang Yuan and big Tang Yuan, my mum said got small got big, a very good sign! haha!

* My hand full of flour haha! Just the middle of my hand was clean!

All the Tang Yuan had done but I had to wait until Sunday morning only can ate.

…..1am…3am…4am…5am…7am…9am !

Ta Dang! It was Sunday morning haha! I ate 1 bowl of Tang Yuan and my mum gave me 1 cup and asked me brought back to KL. We just made red colour Tang Yuan only, we never made Tang Yuan in any other colour, we only love RED! Haha! Chinese New Year is coming soon, so everything must be in RED okay?

* Red Tang Yuan

So how about you? Did you make Tang Yuan yourself with your mum or you bought it?