1 June 07
Dinner with GIP gang

After shopping for pressies with the JC gang, I headed to the vines restaurant over at Novena to meet up with the GIP gang for dinner. The last outing was in May over at Settlers' (I think). Jackie reminded me that I wasnt there coz of planning itinerary with Suhui and Yingjie haha. I guess I have been missing out a few of the GIP outings as the proposed dates always seem to clash with my schedule, so sorry about it! But this time round, I'm able to make it okie... coz I'm the one who pick the date haha =p

Xiao Jun joined us for dinner too. Its good to meet her in sgp... which reminds me of how times fly when we last met in seattle. Everyone's still pretty much the same and I think we were the noisest in the restaurant oops. Apparently we seem to be all too long winded so we continued chatting in the nearby mcdonalds before we caught the last train home.

2 June 07
Grasshoppers in Action

Met up with Wan Wen for kbox session and the conclusion for the day was that we were two big jokers haha.

Our theme songs were Cao Meng aka Grasshoppers' songs! They are like classics of the classics... our primary school era haha! These are great songs for us two big jokers out there. I'm glad that our friendship is still going strong despite meeting like two or three times a year only. Hang on friend... Brave through the OT and you'll be fine~ Jia You!!!

4 June 07
Auntie... Aunties

Went shopping in NTUC for a full one hour haha! We bought so many things that less than half of them were on our shopping list... really powerful Aunties! Next headed to Dilys house to start our main purpose, ie to design shoe for Lijun, and to cook!

Dilys started cooking the tang yuan while Suhui and I took charge of the guan cai ban. Guan cai ban is a taiwan snack thats rather popular over there. While in Shi Lin, I still claim that guan cai ban is so easy to do and its appearance is really nothing impressive. Just have to cut the bread and put the filling inside. So Suhui and I tried our own version of guan cai ban today with the ingredients as below:

English muffins X4
Eggs X 3
Chicken satays X 1 pack
Satay sauce

Procedures are as such:
1. Cut the english muffins to have a hole for you to put your fillings in. Take note that the hole should not be too deep else the sauce may leak out from the bottom. The cover should fit the muffins as well.
2. Fry the chicken satays for about 5 minutes.
3. Fry the eggs till golden yellow.
4. Heat the satay sauce till you see steam coming out.
5. Cut the eggs into half or to your desired size and place in the hole that you have created from the english muffins earlier on. This egg will serve as the base for your chicken satays.
6. Add the chicken satays in. Do not be too greedy else the cover may not fit the muffins properly!
7. Add in some chicken satays sauce and wrap it up using the fried egg.
8. Close the hold with the muffin cover and you are ready to savour it!

Of course this version of guan cai ban, if prepared in front of the taiwan version of guan cai ban will be ban men nong fu! At least our guan cai ban is edible, thanks to the nice chickey satays haha. There's really a lot of differences - theirs is square while ours is round. We couldnt get those square thick breads haha. There's much more varieties in their fillings while ours are just chicky satays. But I guess if I'm still unemployed for long, I might start my own business of guan cai ban in singapore first haha.

Oh, one tip for interested chef-to-be.. you might want to consider toasting your english muffins!

The preparation is actually very simple, yet it took us like 1 hour plus (?!) to get it ready for serving. So tired after cooking wor haha... Had our tang yuan in dou hua shui as well. Yeah! Tried the 'whatever' and 'anything' drink. Not very impressive =p Didnt have much energy left for designing the shoe so ended up playing with Dilys's Chip soft toy keke.

Too bad its getting late else we four aunties can try and play mah jong too haha!