Vegetarian Wedding Dinner Prepared by Fo You Yuan Vegetarian

The dinner is cooked by Fo You Yuan vegetarian from Geylang. The bridegroom had booked the ballroom and asked Fo You Yuan vegetarian to go there cook. I believe Fo You Yuan had moved all their culteries to the country club and prepare their food.

Let’s see what’s in the menu for today?

1. Fortune Five Vegetarian Cold Dish
2. Vegetarian Shark’s Fin Soup
3. Spinach with 2 Types of Mushroom
4. Vegetarian Lucky Trotters
5. Lotus Duck
6. Fried Vegetarian Chicken with Cashew Nuts
7. Vegetarian Golden Pig
8. Fried Rice with Lotus Leaf
9. Yam Paste with Gingko Nut

Pictures of each dish:

Apettizer	Fortune Five Vegetarian Cold Dish
Vegetarian Shark’s Fin Soup	Spinach with 2 Types of Mushroom
Vegetarian Lucky Trotters	Lotus Duck – when it first came
Lotus Duck – opened	Fried Vegetarian Chicken with Cashew Nuts
Vegetarian Golden Pig	Fried Rice with Lotus Leaf
Fried Rice with Lotus Leaf – in a bowl	Yam Paste with Gingko Nut

Comments on the foods:

• Appetizer - the appetizer is a cruchy, salty fish. Tastes and smells nice
• Fortune Five Vegetarian Cold Dish – Nothing really special that I would want to comment about the food, its the same as any other cold plate
• Vegetarian Shark’s Fin Soup – the shark fin has used “Dao Ki” as the main ingredient. Tastes not bad, but the picture looks abit oily
• Spinach with 2 Types of Mushroom – there are 2 types of mushrooms in this dish. Overall, this dish tastes salty
• Vegetarian Lucky Trotters – decorated with coropok, a good idea
• Lotus Duck – the lotus duck when it came, it was nicely wrapped up. When we opened it up, we saw so many lotus seeds. Too many that we feel sick of it. If you noticed, the wrapped skin is made of “Dao ki” too
• Fried Vegetarian Chicken with Cashew Nuts – this is a special one. The ingredients are fried veg chicken with cashew nuts, same as what you can find in Yam Ring. But instead of putting it in yam ring, they put inside a bowl shape popiah. The bowl is made of popiah skin and deep fried it, this is a good idea too. The skin tastes so crispy
• Vegetarian Golden Pig – the best among all dishes. Even the bridgegroom’s mum says its a must eat, don’t miss this dish. Indeed its really good. Using lettuce to wrap the crispy vegetarian pig and cucumber, glazed it with sweet sauce. Yum yum
• Fried Rice with Lotus Leaf - By the time, we had this dish, we were all full. We thought having noodles is better than rice. Rice makes us even more full. I can really smell the lotus leaf in my bowl of rice
• Yam Paste with Gingko Nut – this is the worse though it may looks good. It tastes sour for my table, plus it is too watery. I thought it should taste sticky and sweet?

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Vegetarian Wedding Dinner @ Orchid Country Club

I had attended another wedding dinner this year. Why are so many people getting married now? Just this year, I guess I will be attending 4 weddings. Omg, gonna have a big hole in my pocket.

This time, I attended the wedding dinner in replace of my dad, he is busy so my mum got me to join her for the dinner. Oh well, orchid country club is super far from my home, luckily my mum’s friend who is attending the dinner too is driving there. So we managed to hitch a free ride.

Country club, so certain standards need to be in place. It looks grand, big and beautiful. The cost of booking the ballroom must be very expensive too, hopefully I’m not too casually dressed.

Since my mum’s friend is also a vegetarian, the family had all their food vegetarian-ed. It means its a full vegetarian wedding, unlike my friends’ wedding, usually I’m the odd one out at my table. This time, everybody is having the same dishes, all vegetarian.

My impression of this wedding dinner:

Everyone is not super well-dressed except for relatives and some close friends. The rest were wearing presentably.

During the dinner, the bride is a pre-school teacher, so she had arranged a variety of events for the guests. At the start, she had her students perform for us by dancing. 2 dances, one of the songs is Barbie. The kids are well prepared, they had their props like sunglasses, scarfs for actions. I’m amazed, this is my first time seeing someone asking their students to perform at a wedding dinner. Won’t their parents mind? They are only 5 years old kids.

From the start of the wedding, there’s always background music which catches my attention. First half of the wedding is english songs and second half is chinese duet songs. I think it would be better if they can mix the english and chinese songs together. While they are playing the english songs, I keep trying to figure out what’s the title of the song so that I can get the songs from my friends.

The songs that they had played:

• English
  • From this moment – 1st march in
  • I finally found someone
  • I knew I love you before I meet you
  • Take my breath away
  • I just call to say I love you
  • Right here waiting
  • etc
• Chinese
  • 屋顶
  • 男人女人
  • 恋爱频率
  • 你最珍贵
  • 今天你要嫁给我 – their 2nd march in. This is a hot popular song for weddings now
  • etc

I can only remember some of the songs. There are more to this list of songs.

During their second march-in, they are like president surveying the grounds of army. The couples came in a mini lorry that the president used when inspecting the army. The mini lorry is similar to those use in the country club or rather golf club that can transport people from one place to another, not sure what is the correct name though.

In the midst of the second half of the dinner, the couples still had their MC to throw questions to the the guests. Questions like what song is used for the children dance just now, which kindergarten is the bride from? What are the chinese names of the newly wed? Etc.. This is interesting, getting your guests to know more about you. Oh yah, you need to have a pair of very active and enthusiatic MC to make the event more lively.

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Blueberry Pie @ Hans

I went to Hans with Andy @ Far East Plaza. It was almost dinner time, instead of ordering those usual meal, I had ordered blueberry pie. Hoping that it will gives me an idea of how to bake it in future or even teach me the different ways of baking an apple pie. I believe the way to bake an apple pie and a blueberry pie is similar.

Blueberry Pie	Side View of Blueberry Pie

In fact, I am not sure of the correct naming of this blueberry pie. But it has crumbles on top and decorated with chocolate chips which enhances the taste of the blueberry pie. Yum yum, I love it. Is there any peach pie since apples and blueberry can become a pie. Oh, how about a durian pie too? Lol.

Apple Pie – 1st Try

This is my first time trying baking an Apple Pie. What’s the result? Haha, its an edible yet unpresentable apple pie. I guess is because my pie crust is too thick, both on top and below. In order to make it edible, you know what I did? I flipped the whole apple pie upside down and bake it again, resulting in the upper crust smash into pieces. Omg. Since its my first try, I rather make it edible than presentable.

The second time I gonna make it, I better learn my lesson. Lol. Thinner crust. Oh yah and smaller cubes of apples. My first try was thick slices of apples which I find it alright but my “testers” all recommend me to make it smaller.

I will put my recipe here since I will still follow the measurements given. You can twist a little bit after knowing my problems, like smaller cubes of apples, thick crust ==> either use a bigger pan size or reduce the amount of flour. By the way, the size of my pie pan is 6″, which explains the overloaded crust.

Recipe of Apple Pie

Ingredients: Pastry: 532g plain flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 150g unsalted butter 118g vegetable shortening 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar Filling: 177g sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg powder 2 to 3 teaspoons tapioca flour or cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 big apples (sliced) 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 30ml unsalted butter 1 tablespoon sugar Preparations: Combine the flour and salt in a big mixing bowl. Cut the butter into smaller pieces and add it into the mixing bowl gradually. Following, add the vegetable shortening and apple cider vinegar. Keep mixing until the dough gathers into a ball. Divide the dough into half, separate it by putting into different bowl or wrap it separately. Put it into fridge for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven. While the dough is chilling in the fridge, we prepare the filling. Peel and sliced the apples. Add in all the ingredients for the filling into another mixing bowl. After 30 minutes, take out the dough. Spread the pie pan with oil. Spread one portion of the dough into the pie pan, well spread. Add in the ingredients. The other half of the dough, use a roller to make it round and flat first. Cover it above the apple mixtures. Do a nice closing for the apple pie. Bake the pie at 200 degrees for 50 minutes. Observe it while it is baking. Tips: For the filling, make sure the tapioca flour is well mixed, otherwise you will be able to taste “glue” in your apple pie. Finishing: Cut the apple pie into smaller pieces. Scoop one slice out and served.

When baking the apple pie, there are alot of small details to take note of. Continue reading my blog for my successful apple pie. =)

Simple Food @ Tampines (The Food)

In my opinion, I would still prefer Roma Deli as compared to Simple Food due to the ambience in Roma Deli. The first time I went to Simple Food, I take away lagsana for dinner. To my dismay, I brought back a sour-taste lagsana. I called them back to “complain”, they suggested for one-to-one exchange. But I rejected because I had already reached home with a hungry stomach, no more energy to go change again when I still need to take 2 buses to get there.

Despite this scenario, it didn’t stop me from visiting them. However, I was resisted to order lagsana again. Other foods like chicken chop and such, which is freshly cooked, should not have this problem unless they did not keep the mock meats in the fridge.

The 2nd time I visited them, I lunched in together with my cousins. Simple food has a special offer menu. They had a standard set meal that comes with a drink, soup of the day and main course. I ordered a set meal with vegetarian seafood chicken chop as my course. The soup of the day is creamy mushroom soup, which tastes quite bland and watery. I feel that my creamy mushroom soup is thicker than theirs just that mine is not creamy.

Take a look at the food I had ordered on my following visits to Simple Food:

Special Offer Menu	Soup of the Day
Seafood Fish Chop	Hawaiian Fish Chop
Baked Rice	Mango Salad

The different flavors of fish chops are something which Roma Deli did not provide. So if you wish to eat some western food, you can go to Simple Food. In fact, Simple Food sells cai fan that you can order dishes and eat together with rice. In addition, they are selling Zi Char like hokkien mee, fried bee hoon, etc.

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