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I just bought a non-stick pan. Instead of my previous stainless steels pan, it sometimes need to take awhile to allow the pan to heat before it able to cook without sticking. More oil also needed for stainless steels pan. Therefore I decided to purchase a non-stick pan. I went to Japanese Home shop and found there are some nice non-stick pan which cost around RM70. I also did some survey at AEON. Walking around and compare several famous brand. Finally I decided to go for Tefal non stick pan. Tefal pan have higher resistant from scratch (able to use metal for cooking), free leads, free cadmium, free PFOA. The best thing about Tefal pan that it has the termo-spot. A red color thingy in the middle of the pan where it will shows you when is the pan is hot enough for cooking. It cost me RM179. There are some model which is cheaper and cost around RM95. But because I'm using induction cooker, I need to buy the one that able to support induction cooker which more expensive than usual. A ...

Steamed egg have been a very popular dish for Asian. Chinese, Korean and Japanese have steam egg in their food menu. It just the way they do it differently. Steam foods are always healthier than fried food. Ingredient: - 1/2 cut cube chicken stock - 2 piece of mushroom, slice - 2 piece of black fungus, slice - 4 eggs - Parsley - 1 teaspoon of rice wine, I replace Sake with rice wine. Sake more expensive - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 1 teaspoon soy sauce - 1 teaspoon sugar Preparation: 1. Boil a pot of water. Estimate with 2 small bowl of water. Drop the chicken stock and boil the stock melt. Let it cool. If the chicken soup is hot, it will create too much pores in the chawanmushi. 2. Crack the eggs into a bowl. Drop the mushroom, black fungus, Parsley, rice wine, salt, sugar and soy sauce. 3. Do not whip it. Stir it slowly to avoid bubbles formed. Stir until it is mix well. 4. Pour the boil chicken stock slowly into the eggs. 5. Stir slowly so it mix well. 6. Pour the egg into the bowl and pla...

I was thinking of cooking something romantic for two. Western food will be most suitable. I went to hypermarket and shop for some ingredient which took me near an hour for that. Thinking of cooking some fish and start googling. I saw a video teaching how to cook fish and chips. Can find most ingredient here, so I modified my own. Also I don’t have a weighing machine. So I guess the amount by using anything I can find from the kitchen. Ingredients 2 pieces fish fillet. (I use dory fish) a plate of flour French fries (estimate for 2 person) Oil (vegetable oil or corn oil, don’t use olive oil as it will taste weird) mushy peas 1 bowl of frozen peas (estimate for 2 person) 1 teaspoon of salt butter/cold margarine (size of half ping pong ball) batter 1/2 cup of flour half bottle of cold lager beer (I use Tiger beer as it is the cheapest I can find here) 1 teaspoon of salt few sprinkle of white pepper tartar sauce mayonnaise (5 tablespoon as for my case) lemon juice (half a lemon) 1 piece of...

It had been awhile since I last blog. It almost a year. Well kind of too busy with something else. Firstly I was busy for the preparation of my Korea trip back in May 2013. It was a nice trip and a lot of research had been done. It is worth spending the time since I'm going for a self tour with my wife. Then after the trip, I started to change job. A new career path and getting busier. Beside new job, I'm started to learn in stock exchange and started to invest. 2013 such a busy year. Nevertheless, Penang is also my hometown. This blog is almost dead for a year and I decided to start blogging about Penang again. Last week, the news of IKEA to open an outlet in Penang had became a hot news in the Facebook. Some people are happy about it and some actually felt pretty sad. Some even comments why IKEA open an outlet in Penang and not other state. Why not Johor since it near to Singapore? Why not Melaka? Why not Puchong and why not here & there. News of IKEA opening.  http://new...

Benjamin Graham, the master of Warren Buffet were widely know as his intelligent investment which bring value growth in long run of stock market. A human are usually pack with greed and exitement of gambles. How much do we really able to control our desire of greed and gambles in stock market? A good book title " The Intelligent Investor " should be read by stock market investor out there. In the book itself, Graham told his experience and story on how to be an intelligent investor. One rule is buy low sell high. Buying when people selling and selling when people buying. Easy to say but really how can we really practice this. I tested with a stock counter name NCB. This counter had good performance in the past history. With recent company profile of good contract and expansion, the stock at WW52 low. With confident, I bought this counter. Yes, as Graham fundamental theories of studying the company background, profile, management and etc. All of it meets the requirement but af...

Previous: Day 13 – Lunch and shopping at Myeongdong, and dinner at Shinchon We wake up quite late today and a bit rush. So yesterday we bought the Shin Ramen for breakfast. After finish our breakfast, we proceed to check out and head to Incheon airport. We take Line 2 and transfer at Hongik Univ station to AREX Line. When we reach airport, we notice there are no Air Asia counter, which means we unable to purchase for luggage upgrade. We bought only 30kg for 2 person. We called our Korean friend that we are heading back to Penang as we will be returning the mobile phone. After we return the phone, we try to find for weighing machine. At there we trying to adjust our luggage which is at that moment 38kg. We distribute the 8kg of extra weight to our hand carry backpack. It was tough and we spend about 1 hour try to arrange that. Then we bought some light snack at GS25 for lunch at the airport. After we finish our lunch, we wait until 3PM before we can check in. Once we able to check ...

Previous: Day 12 – Bukchon Hanok Village, Noryangjin Fish Market and Yeuido tour People say if come to Myeongdong, must try their dumpling. We walk to the Myeongdong and change some money. Although it is almost near the end of the trip, I still need some cash for shopping at Myeongdong. Myeongdong popular with skincare and cosmetic product. There are lots of shops like Nature Republic, Skinfood, The Face Shop, Body Shop, Etude house, It’s Skin, Missha, Tony Moly, and a lots more. Too much until some of them I don’t recall their name. We stop by the mobile tourism information to ask for famous Myeongdong dumpling and Free Hanbok trying. They guide us the location and we reach the dumpling house. They call this Myeongdong Gyoza. We stop by and order 1 bowl of noodles and gyoza. It cost around 16,000won (RM32). The dumpling is so delicious that I can’t stop eating it. After fill up our stomach, we proceed to the Free Hanbok trying . We went there at 5th Floor MPlaz...