Thursday, October 29, 2020

Easy Noodle Recipes with Heng's Natural Thick Ramen

With this Covid situation, more of us are dining at home and cooking our own food more often.
If you are bored of the usual fare, here are two simple 5-step recipes for dry and soupy noodles you can create at home using Heng's Natural Thick Ramen. They have 10 flavours of noodles:

Beetroot
Carrot
Charcoal
Chia Seed
Millet
Pumpkin
Quinoa
Spinach 
Sweet Potato
Tomato

I've tried tomato and spinach noodles at certain food stalls in Singapore, but was surprised at the huge array of flavours this brand has.


ps: their pepper salt prawn spices pack is also real good too. if you like your food strong flavoured, I assure you this will make prawns taste very good!


So anyway, I decided to try out the Sweet Potato and Beetroot flavours since the colours seem to look so pretty!

Dry Noodles Recipe

Here is a super easy Dry Noodles Recipe (for 1 pax) using Heng's Natural Thick Ramen in Sweet Potato Flavour.

Ingredients:

Heng's Thick Ramen - 1 portion
Lee Kum Kee Oyster Flavoured Sauce with Mushroom - 2 spoonful
Maggi Tomato Sauce - 1 spoonful
Mahsuri Hot Sweet Soy Sauce - 1 spoonful
Dumplings
Vegetables

Step 1:
Prepare the dumplings first. I chose to have both boiled and fried dumplings to give more textures to the meal. Shall not elaborate on the dumplings as you can choose to make your own, or buy off-the-shelf ones.

Step 2:
Prepare the vegetables. You can choose any kind of vegetables you like to go with your noodles, but for simplicity's sake, we shall choose kailan for this.

Step 3:
Prepare the sauce of the dry noodles. Mix 2 spoonfuls of oyster sauce, 1 spoonful of ketchup, and 1 spoonful of hot sweet soy sauce. I love this soy sauce as it has a tinge of spiciness which adds that extra oomph to the dish! Then, add some hot water and stir all these together.
Step 4:
Start cooking your noodles. Mine took about 10-15 minutes to be fully cooked. You can tweak the cooking time depending on how chewy you want your noodles to be.

Step 5:
Finally, just place your cooked noodles onto the bowl and mix well with the sauce prepared previously in step 3. Put in all the other ingredients and your dish is good to go!



Soupy Noodles Recipe

For a healthier option, or on days where you are craving to have some soup, try to make this soupy noodles with fish (1 pax) using Heng's Natural Thick Ramen in Beetroot flavour.

Ingredients:

Heng's Thick Ramen - 1 portion
Sliced Ginger - 3 small slices
MSG - a little (Uncle Roger approves)
Salt - 1 teaspoon
Pepper - a little
Fish slices
Vegetables

Step 1:
Start cooking your noodles. Mine took about 10-15 minutes to be fully cooked. You can tweak the cooking time depending on how chewy you want your noodles to be.

Step 2:
Add some sliced ginger, MSG, and vegetables into boiling water. 

Step 3:
Then put in some fish slices. *Note that you could actually put in any ingredients that are cooked quickly in boiling water, in place of fish. (think fish balls, fish cakes, etc.) Then add 1 teaspoon of salt. 

Step 4:
Place the cooked noodles back into the pot and stir. Add a dash of soya sauce. 

Step 5:
Finally, pour everything into your bowl, add pepper and any extra ingredients (in this case I placed a corn into the soup for colour ) and this is ready to be served!



And there you have it. Easy peasy!

To get these Heng's Thick Ramen and other food produce, just order from Wowfire Pte Ltd.
They are available on various platforms!

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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Lovely Hua Shop - Review

Recently got to know of Lovely Hua Shop, they are one of the cheapest flower delivery shops in Singapore! Service and delivery is prompt, so if u are looking to deliver flowers to that special someone today, look no further.


Floral Box Series


Got this Red Roses Floral Box (S$36.90) from Lovely Hua Shop as a birthday present for mum.

And it was really beautiful; mum liked it and took many photos with it. 


I guess flowers would brighten any girl, or auntie's day!

Also, Lovely Hua Shop offers a complimentary message card with a personal message for your loved ones, and they clip it onto the flowers like this.


Just in case u are wondering how it looks beyond the front view of the floral box.


Everlasting/Dried Flowers Series


Also got this Rosy - Dried Flowers (S$38.90). Since I was gonna go on a staycation, having some flowers to take photos with would be a nice touch!


I love purple and these everlasting Statice Flowers would stay with me forever! Also would be useful if I need some pretty flowers to style any photos in future!

Thanks so much Lovely Hua Shop!


They now also offer dried flowers for the Floral Box Series, so if u find it a pity to have fresh flowers wither and having to throw it away, u could opt for the dried flowers too!

Lovely Hua Shop currently have some ongoing promotions in Aug. Do check out their website for more information!


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Monday, August 03, 2020

The Daily Lives - Personalised Gifts

If you are looking for gift ideas, The Daily Lives offers tumblers, mugs, and even mask boxes with different font/colour design customisations, at very affordable prices.


I got the pink marble mug set from them. This comes with the coaster, lid and a stirrer. There are a number of fonts and font colours to choose from. 

In the end, I chose the Rose Gold colour and I'm really loving the final pieces!

If you want to gift these items to your friends or loved ones for special occasions, they also can include the gift cards with words like "Specially for you", "Happy Birthday" etc. in the package.


On top of that, they put in effort to have some nice touches on the packaging and makes sure that your items are packed in these boxes!

Feel free to DM their Instagram or Carousell account to find out more!


Sunday, July 12, 2020

San Agustin Church and Taal Volcano

Had the chance to visit the oldest church in the Philippines, San Agustin Church on one Sunday by myself. Turns out that the first Sunday in December every year is the Grand Marian Procession, where people will gather around the "Wall of Churches" in Intramuros, Manila, from afternoon till night and that really affected how I was going to get a cab to leave the place.

Well, I didn't know about all that and happily visited the San Agustin Church by myself. Alas, found out that some couple was also holding their wedding ceremony that day and I couldn't enter the main hall. Not an issue though, as I witnessed one of the most beautiful wedding scenes in my life from the top of the church hall. So all's good! So now, let the pictures do the talking!


Main hall. There was an on-going wedding and I only managed to get this picture before being turned away


The museum area when visitors first step in







Yea tombstones




Going up the second floor





Choir and organ area where I can overlook the main hall

Waiting for the bride....

Just look at the train of the gown! So gorgeous!

Grand Marian Procession


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On another occasion, we also made it a point to visit one of the world's smallest active volcanoes: Taal Volcano.

Before going to the Volcano, we needed to go through a short lesson with the staff. Then it was a 20min boat ride to the island. As usual for Volcano attractions, they would offer the option of self trekking or horseback riding. Obviously in that kind of weather, we chose the horseback riding that takes us about 30min to the top.







This was the view that greeted us at the top. Honestly, having been to large volcanoes like Mount Bromo or Kawah Ijen, the view here couldn't really compare. 


However, because Taal Volcano is special: The crater lake on Volcano Island here is the largest lake on an island in a lake on an island in the world. It was worth visiting since I was there!


Because the view from the free spots weren't magnificent enough, we had to pay an additional fee to go up another route that promises a better view. Had to climb up a narrow path here. If u accidentally trip and fall to the sides here u would tumble off the cliff and hit the rocks beneath. 


Well, it was true, managed to get some nicer photos here since there are no barricades here. But it was scary shit to be sitting at the edge.



So that's all for my Manila adventures! 

To check out the food I had there, click here.

Also check out the VLOG I did for the Manila trip!