I'm pretty amused by the curiousity of some people when they read my blog and they see a guy in long pants wearing a bleached white shining apron doing culinary.
Don't worry, it's not home economics man, it's an external course, so please do not be shocked and start jumping off the HDB block the moment you see this post, which will regrettably again about food, food, food - oh well, what can you expect, Singapore is a beautiful paradise for a large variety of food.
For today, we will be preparing a pretty light dish - A burger that costs a little teeny weeny bit cheaper than McDonald's Fillet-o-fish but has the taste and size of a Carl's Junior burger, which can be prepared in less than 15 minutes (that is, if your fast).
Of course, without any delay, let's take a look at the ingredients for today *holds breath*
Juicy chicken thighs that will be made into your meat patty, tomato and cabbage not necessary for anti-vegetable carnivores and of course the hamburger bread, which can be purchased from your nearby friendly supermarket.
Also included in the ingredients are the stuff that will make up the divine marinate which will be infused into the patty, soaking it in great richness - namely oyster sauce, pepper and salt (don't put too much salt!), bread crumbs and a little soy sauce.
And how can we forget the gravy that will be drizzled upon the patty, making it wet and dirty? For this we need the help of onions and orange marmalade.
Without further ado, it's time to polish up the sharp fatal knife and start slicing away, removing the bones from the cursed chicken flesh. You shall call yourself the Butcher.
After deboning that cumbersome piece of pinkish flesh that smells like lard, remove the fats and start to slice it into chunks and slices. Feel the pain for the chicken as you the sadistic Butcher begins to dismember its corpse. Ah, one minute of silence please.
Next is a more grotesque process that can be ranked one of the most common in picturesque dismemberism. The mincing process.
There are so many ways to mince - you either chop hard, or you chop fast, or you combine them together - chop fast and hard, or you treat that poor piece of fatty meat as a drum and start drumming all over the chopping board.
This is a classical example of sadistic Butcher doing his daily routine, unphlegmatic to the sickening sight on the chopping board.
And meet Butcher number two, who on that particular fateful day was pretty depressed for Leon-knows-what-reason (actually I know), cheer up brother.
After the brutal massacre that left a bloody mess which we would have to clean up later, we shall prepare the onions. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT prepare the onion into small chunks like the picutres shown above. It is damn wrong because when you place it on top of your patty it's gonna fly up down left right all around. So slice it instead.
Next is a pretty dirty job otherwise known as the marinating process, which we will add the ingredients as written above into a gigantic demonic looking metal bowl that is so shiny it's gonna reflect the light that will disintergrate your eyeballs.
And start to squeeze, touch, molest, harass, punch, tickle your chicken so that the stuff will be infused into the minced meat. Don't be afraid, you gotta learn to love your food
Next up, we're gonna brown our bread with butter so that it will provide a fabulous taste and moisture as you take a huge bite into your masterpiece.
And you get this really charcoal looking (HAHAHA *cough*
And then you start deep frying the minced meat that is moulded into circular shapes that looks like granite stones. It then starts to sizzle out a delightful sound to the ears, and then the oils starts spurting out everywhere like Suntec's Fountain of Wealth.
After the meat is ready (which can be shown by pressing it, it being firm and stiff), it's time to prepare the gravy.
Add in the onion slices and the orange marmalade and water and watch the magic appear!
And with much creativity and putting all the food together, you get a delicious "Carl's Jr" breakfast for the price of a McDonald Fillet-O-Fish :D
Cooking is like upsizing your food, really.
Alright, enough of the food already. Time to elaborate more about things that the males always (well, most of them) love:
ELECTRONICS.
Presenting to you, the Journey to the Suntec IT Fair, featuring the elite explorers of technology hungry consumers, the group of whacky, crazy, retarded people who could do random things like flirting with the saleswoman (and that's not the best of it!).
After a perilous journey from the school to Suntec through the overcrowded Bus 16, we are proud to say that we survived this trip just to make it there and to our delight and love, we were greeted first by a Playstation 3 booth.
Explorer Shi Xiang couldn't help but to drool over the highly graphic intensive and not to forget also power consuming Playstation 3, so much that the security had to close the whole Suntect exhibition hall because it was flooded till 3 storeys deep.
Soon came before our eyes was this digital lifestyle booth which promoted a sort of a home entertainment system , which is one of the things I'm gonna get if I struck it rich and happen to own a bungalow :D
As we ventured and explore the deep dark corners of the exhibition corner, we came to the main showcase, which sort of have an uncanny resemblance to Singapore's Expo - hell lots of booths everywhere, lots of people trying to promote their stuff and not to mention lots of ESSENTIAL brochure givers (brochures are damn important, okay!)
And as we did our planned route around the booths to check out and sniff out the best prices and products, Explorer Chang Sheng happened to come across to this really interesting game exercise simulator and WTFish, started playing with the salesgirl!
Naughty Chang Sheng, please do remember we still have to try out facial before the school reopens, LOL.
Damn, I'll be meeting him in like, I don't know, 4 hours time from now at the same exact point again to buy some stuff, namely the 4GB SD card and.. yup that's about it.
After what seemed like an eternity, we happen to chance on an interesting product again, this time a portable mutlimedia system that comes with this damn awesome chair that vibrates according to the excitement of the movie. Chang Sheng obviously, have become our beloved model for this product.
Of course, with every single exploring trip we need one of the most essential basic needs of humanity - Food.
So we went to this really cool cafe that Melson led us to after much debate over where to eat and what to eat and how to eat and why eat bla bla bla. (Let's eat mutton!
Stuff's around 6-8 bucks, with a free flow of drink.
My curry chicken set.
Gavin's terriyaki chicken set.
Melson's pork set.
Shi Xiang's spicy chicken set.
Chang sheng's chicken chop set.
Whew, that's a hella loads of food for hungry consumers, we stayed there for a pretty much 2 hours, doing Chemistry homework, doing A Maths homework, playing Nintendo DS and me reading all the brochures that I have painstakingly collected, all for the sake of the free flow drink.
HAHA. Kiasu Singaporeans at it's best.
Exhausted Leon came back from school after a 3 hours of sleep, just to blog on this blog that has been neglected for 3 days, long enough for cobwebs to form - why?
I swear, hanging out in school at night with the NCC Sea people is damn fun - it's been such a long time since I have hung out with Shaun & Zack.. Aw. Much love.
And I get to learn how to play Mahjong, like finally in my 15 plus years old life!
Pong!
And Speedpost finally delivered this holy sacred book that has came all the way from the west via Amazon and Fedex (much love!)
Gotta burn my holidays reading that and of course not to forget, going out with friends too (and sorry for not *cough* being able to go on Wednesday cause I have camp from Monday to Wednesday yah?)
Peace out!
Hush girl, learn to take things slowly.
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