sorry, i'm unable to phonetically spell out the name of this cake in the romanised form i'd learnt in college. it's only been 3 years but i've long forgotten it. talk about short-term memory. anyway, i'll make a bold attempt to explain the 4 really weird sounding words. if you break them up individually and literally, they are "water", "steam", "egg", and "cake". get it?
it's one of my "fun" projects this week, scanning the web for "oriental" recipes on "non-oriental" websites. this dessert is apparently a favourite among the cantonese speakers hence the cantonese name. it's not baked but steamed instead, as with most chinese cakes. didn't know what to expect but the pictures posted on the website were fairly attractive. so i tried it and i wasn't disappointed. the cake turned out really soft and spongy and once i popped a slice in my mouth, the familiarity just hit home through my taste buds down my esophagus to a very welcoming and deprived stomach.
this is what my family calls "goy nng kueh" in hokkien (literally, "chicken egg cake"). it's usually used for praying purposes along with it's darker cousin the "huat guay" (a.k.a. "prosperous kueh"). you see them with a dot of red food colouring sold pretty often in the markets. one my favourite aunts make these delicious things by hand (?!) but i'd chickened out and opted for the trusty mixer. (no serena williams' arms thank you very much!) should have taken another photo to show you guys how spongy it was, but the cake didn't last long between hao-e and i. it was gone in less than 10 hours - hao-e ate it for supper and breakfast!
This is my first post since we left Bermuda for Singapore more than 3 weeks ago. We are battling serious jet lag this time. it might be the age-factor (yikes!) or because we didn't rest properly on the flights (yes plural!) back cos we were busy trying to exhaust all the new movies on krisworld, or maybe a combination of both lah. but both of us have been trying very hard to keep awake at 3pm. yes, the sleep monster strikes at that hour! thank God we are going to remove time saving tonight, so we have 1 less hour to correct this weekend. talking about movies, twilight was amazingly easy on the eye! although i hesitate to call ourselves twilight converts given that i was highly skeptical at first. but the eye candy in the form of Rob Pattersin/Edward Cullen is really irresistible (did you know Rob Pattersin was Cedric in Harry Potter??) .... argh. i wanna get bitten by this vamp too lor! BITE ME! Hao-e even bought New Moon (the sequal) to read this weekend and i spent almost ...
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