Home Kitchen - Glutinous Rice Ball with Black Sesame Paste

It was not easy to shoot this dessert. Both the glutinous rice ball and black sesame paste are food items that are soft, viscous or, in the case of the glutinous rice ball with peanut filling, a combination of both. Much is needed to produce a photo without undesirable changes to their appearance, e.g., flattened rice ball.

Enjoy!

Home Kitchen - Kueh Salat

Kueh Salat is one of the more commonly found nonya dessert that consists of one layer each of sweet glutinous rice and kaya custard.

P/S: Photograph was taken late at night with warm-white home artificial lighting and no flash, so please bear with me! Heehee

Is Poh Kim A Legal Pirate??

It is not often that I surf STOMP, much less quote from it.

However, I cannot help feeling so agitated that I felt compelled to share this article.

Apparently this clueless Stomper, Lee, bought what he thought was an original DVD movie from Poh Kim only to discover that:
1. The video quality is poor and grainy
2. Scenes censored
3. Speech mute-censored
4. Wrong or mismatched subtitles

Who will bother buying originals when it does NOT guarantee, most basically, quality?
More importantly, the perpetrator is a licensed (or not??!) household name like Poh Kim??!

Shame on you, Poh Kim!

ORIGINAL article here (pun intended)

Home Kitchen - Cordon Bleu Kueh Lapis

Decided to give the 100mm Macro another go when the missus baked Kueh Lapis.
This should be as close to having your cake and eating it!


Cordon Bleu Kueh Lapis, anyone?


A closer look at the layers


Goes well with a shot (pun intended), I'd say!

Walkabout in Botanic Gardens

The Singapore Botanic Gardens is always good for a leisurely outing and new discoveries for photo opportunities. Well, the latter is a little hard to overly indulge in with JacJac around but nothing's impossible.


I cannot decide if this is a flower or fruit but it sure catches the eye!


The tree that is showering its vicinity with cotton wool (actually seeds with large clumps of "wool" attached to help with dispersion)


... and that's got Mr Kaypoh here sniffing around!


An otherwise good shot but for my inexperience behind the 100mm Macro. More practise!


New sheriff with his canine deputy


No hands, less friction!

Then I was shooting some ducks during a routine water break when folks in a nearby pavilion started speaking quickly and softly and pointing excitedly into the bushes.
So, I went over to investigate and found the source of their excitement...
This bugger was easily 1.5 to 2 metres long (not including its tongue, heh) and had apparently just caught a large fish from the lake. It was just retreating into the safety of some bushes to savour its catch, which made it kinda difficult to shoot. I had to creep around slowly to find a good angle with minimum foilage to avoid any unwanted reaction from the lizard (either moving farther away or worse, thinking I am after it's meal and attacking me!).
I have the deepest respect for the folks behind Discovery Channel Wildlife.


Some playtime after the intense action before heading home!
Playtime is always good time!