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?

Chinese Near Year Themes in KLCC

* There is a big word of “FU” in mandarin, not rude word okay?! We call it “Fook” in cantonese and it represents “good fortune“, “blessing” and “happiness“. There is a big word of “HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR” too!

After we had finished the investigation in the education fare, we approached to Lowyat Plaza because my friend wan to claim warranty for his handphone charger. We did pass by Sungei Wang before we can reached Lowyat Plaza, there was another Chinese New Year Themes in Sungei Wang. It looked traditional and seems great! If I was not mistaken, the decoration had been done and sponsored by DIGI because you can see the lantern is hanging the DIGI tablet.

Chinese Near Year Themes in Sungei Wang

* That’s a Gold Cow pulling the gold, because 2009 is a Cow Year, so it represents that all of us will be getting rich in Year 2009!

* This is the paddy field, there is a scarecrow with white t-shirt. There is a wakaf and some paddy in the baskets. It represents that all of our tummy will be full all the time in Year 2009! All must be in RED!

* There was a Acrobatics Show insides the Sungei Wang complex too!

After my friend had settled his matter, we went back to PJ by Monorail, so we did pass by Berjaya Time Square too. There was another Chinese New Year Themes too. It was not as grand as KLCC and Sungei Wang, but there had a feel of Chinese New Year too!

Chinese Near Year Themes in Berjaya Time Square

* The Gold Lion is the mascot for Chinese and it brings luck to all of us!

* My friend told me that the Gold Dragon Ball has its’ meaning, but I forgot what was it already.

I have yet to visit One-Utama to see their Chinese New Year Themes, but I will go to Mid Valley this Sunday for another education fare. So, I will snap some photos over there! I’m looking for Chinese New Year Food Cuisine right now, but I’m sure I will get a lot when I back to hometown next week, definitely I’ll share it with you guys!

So, did your house or blog been decorated with Chinese New Year Themes already? Do you have any Chinese New Year Food Cuisine to share with me too?

[Chinese New Year Themes Part-Two - Mid Valley and One-Utama]