DAMN THE HAPPS THAI CHICKEN RICE

Inspired by my experiment making bread and butter pudding last Sunday, I'm gonna try to emulate a favourite dish The Hubby likes to order at a restaurant downstairs of our condo. Called Thai Chicken rice, it tastes and looks nothing like it sounds. It's not sweet or sour. It's spicy, made probably with oyster sauce, garlic and chinese cabbage (wong ah bak).

I'll post the recipe tonight if it turns out good.

As for the B&BP, here's the recipe:

Ingredients (4-6 people):
Four slices of white bread, cut half diagonally
Half a slab of butter
Sugar - half a cup
Cinnamon powder - 2 teaspoons
Three eggs
Milk - 1.5 cups

How to prepare:
1. Mix cinnamon with sugar in a bowl and put aside
2. Butter generously on ONE side of the bread. Place bread slices with cut side facing the middle in a round baking tray, creating a circle (pointy side facing the wall of the tray). buttered side facing upwards.
2. As you place the bread, sprinkle the sugar-cinnamon mix on buttered side as you go along.
3. Mix eggs and milk in a bowl. Pour over the bread and let it soak for 15 minutes
Preheat oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake for 30 minutes or until upper crust is golden brown. Best when eaten slightly warm.

Optional: Vanilla cream sauce
In a saucepan, heat up a cup of milk, one beaten egg, half a cup of sugar and 3 tablespoons of wheat flour. Bring the mixture to a boil and toss in a small teaspoon of vanilla essence. Serve warm with pudding.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Turns out my Thai Chicken Rice was a moderate success. I was only missing one ingredient (the one ingredient that made it Thai!): Fish sauce!

Anyway, here's the recipe:

Ingredients (serves 4-6):
Chicken fillet - cut to stir-fry portions
Wong Ah Bak - 1-2lbs, depending on how much cabbage you like
Oyster sauce
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
Salt
Pepper
Fish sauce
Cilipadi (lots, chopped)
Cooking oil

How to prepare:
Heat wok and

TESTING BLOGBUDDY

Freaky shit has been happening to my blogBuddy. I write. I hit Post and Publish. It says Blog Successfully posted, but nothing happens on the other end. If you see this, the freaky shit has, hence, stopped.

BLOGS: A RESPONSIBLE, TRUSTWORTHY MEDIA?

Thank you, Mei, for highlighting this incident to me.

Many people have had a say on this matter. Don't mind if I do!

Firstly, while I don't agree that one should openly advocate using toilets for the disabled, I have been guilty of this terrible deed, more than once.

Okay, twice.

Okay, more than twice.

Hey, I have two kids. Bloody pram doesn't fit in a normal-sized toilet, and not all public restrooms have mommy toilets, so I have a good excuse!

Anyway, I am spending precious time blogging about this (and not playing Quake 4) because it made me realise something important: that perhaps quite a few of us are just leaping into this whole blogging thing a little too callously. We're not being careful enough. Of what we write about. Of who reads our stuff, and what they might do. Of who we endorse.

To be fair, I think it's a little odd that these guys are pulling their endorsement because Xiaxue was inappropriate. I have been to her blog off and on for a year now, and it's anything BUT kosher. Her transgressions are why she's so hot, so if you want the eyeballs, you've got to take the eye, urh, crap as well, right? That's what I think.

So here's the question: Are blogs a safe media to endorse? Do we deserve to be taken seriously by potential advertisers? Should bloggers which are profiting monetarily from endorsements and advertising, be bound by a code of conduct (much as traditional media are)?