Massimo Junior Chef Workshop With Chef Nur Zamahuri

Mamarazzi was chatting with a friend last week, yakkitty-yak...somehow it ended up about this Massimo Junior Chef Workshop that was to be held last Saturday. Her friend saw it in KUNTUM Magazine. 

Aiks! Mamarazzi must have missed that news. She check up in The Star newspaper  and Kuntum. True enough, saw the news.

She asked me wanna join or not and I immediately jump at the chance. Registered.

The night before, I was so excited. Can't barely sleep. Next morning woke up earlier and zoom zoom we drove to Massimo factory.

Aiks! I thought am early but there are some who are much earlier than me.

Saw the KUNTUM van is already there. KUNTUM is a magazine for school going children. This magazine have been in existence for more than 30 years, if Mamarazzi is not mistaken. She read that during her school days.

 Fast fast snap a photo. Security very strict there. Cannot simply snap photo.

Was surprised that Massimo had prepared breakfast for the Participants of the workshop and the parents/teachers/guardian.

Following Malaysian time, the workshop started at 9am plus. After a short briefing, we were ushered into the Cooking Studio. Strictly no photography and video. Parents/guardians/teachers wait at the lounge and they can see us cooking through a glass window.

The above photo was taken at the lounge la.

We learn to make assorted canapes,  Truffle and Cheese Tarts using Massimo bread.

After making the first recipe, we had a short break. Wah.... my favourite....they served sausages, nuggets, sandwiches and drinks. So yummy. I told Mamarazzi I like the darker color sausages.

Pretty Jie Jie gave us a short briefing about the importance of having Breakfast. After that, they had a short Q & A session to see if we were paying attention of not.

Those who answered correctly, gets a prize. I was nervous as I know the answer in English but my brain can't seems to translate it into Bahasa Malaysia fast enough. End up using pakai hentam la...English also can la.

I wonder what's the prize. 

Yay! everyone of the participants also managed to get the answer correctly and we all got a prize each.

I asked Mamarazzi why cover the face of the other participants ...and she said for Internet security and privacy. Cannot simply post up photo of other children online without their parents permission. 

The ones with the ribbons on top are girls while the boys are without ribbons. Wah.....so many boys like me are not shy to go and cook in the kitchen leh.

One more photo with Si Comel, one of KUNTUM mascot.. Errr.....the Jie Jie behind camera shy kot. 

Then off I went and continue "cooking"  the 2nd and 3rd recipe. 

 

Jeng! Jeng! one and a half hour later....we all got our Certificate of Participation.

Thank you very much to KUNTUM magazine , The Italian Baker Sdn Bhd and Chef Nur Zamahuri for this wonderful workshop. Hopefully they will organise more of this in the future...seeing that we didn't kaboom-ed the kitchen.

One more photo with Si Comel 

...and with Chef Nur Zamahuri. 

Big goodies bag from Massimo....Think of bread...think of Massimo. 

We get to "tapau" our "master piece" or rather in my case...pieces home. Got mess up along the way coz was rushing to second event.....was super duper late liao coz the workshop ran overtime.

Next stop......to meet up with some lenglui! Muahahahaha

PLAY-DOH® - Shape a Colourful Community

Come and Experience the First-Ever PLAY-DOH® Month Celebration! 

Let Malaysia’s Colourful Community inspire your kids to create their best PLAY-DOH® sculptures and be part of The Malaysia Book of Records attempt! 

Kuala Lumpur, September 14, 2015: A healthy imagination plays an important role in helping children learn, and for over 50 years, PLAY-DOH® has inspired young children to play, invent, experiment and sculpt their own unique creations.

That’s why the first-ever PLAY-DOH® Month is such exciting news!

From September 21 to 27 at Ground Floor HighStreet, 1 Utama, adults and children alike get the chance to create their own Malaysia-inspired masterpieces out of PLAY-DOH® – it can be anything you choose, be it sculptures or numbers and alphabets.

As you create and re-create, you also get the chance to participate in The Malaysia Book of Records attempt for the most PLAY-DOH® sculptures created in a single day on September 26 (Saturday), and a successful attempt will see your PLAY-DOH® creations on display for all Malaysians to admire, with the most creative sculptures winning exciting PLAY-DOH® prizes!

With PLAY-DOH® there’s really no limit to your imagination, and you can even work in teams or as a family to create something special by sharing ideas. As a tool to encourage learning and experimentation, it’s hard to beat PLAY-DOH® – through hands-on, structured play and encouragement children can learn many skills, from recognising shapes and colours to learning how colours mix and blend, and even social and intellectual skills such as collaboration and problem-solving.

You and your kids can get started to “Shape a Colourful Community” with some of these tips:

Step 1: Work as a team with your kids to imagine what everyone in the family think will best and most positively represent Malaysia.  You can even draw your ideas out first using colourful marker pens, colour pencils, or crayons.

Step 2: Materialise your idea using PLAY-DOH® compound.  Do experiment and encourage each other as you go along.  You can combine the different colours and mix them well with fingers until they become a different colour, and use any other items you have ready in the house to press patterns and make various shapes with the compound.

Step 3: Watch as you and your children transition your flat design into a colourful 3D Malaysia-inspired masterpiece creation!

For more information and updates about PLAY-DOH® Month, be sure to visit the PLAY-DOH® website: www.playdoh.com.

So will you be joining this event? Am thinking of joining but...hmmmm...what shall I create? What is the best and most positively represent Malaysia?

 

Hmm.... My Cikgu gave me the Jalur Gemilang. Shall I build a 3D gigantic Jalur Gemilang? Cikgu told me that the 14 stripes and the 14 points on the star represent the 14 states in Malaysia. The star and the crescent moon also symbols that Islam is the National Religion here and the yellow are the colour for Royalty here. The unity of our people is represented by the blue canton while the equal width on the 14 stripes means that equal status in the federal government and the 13 members states.

But Mamarazzi asked me to built Hibiscus coz she is crazy about flowers it is our national flower and it represent the 5 National Principles - 

• BELIEF IN GOD
• LOYALTY TO KING AND COUNTRY
• SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION
• RULES OF LAW
• COURTESY AND MORALITY

. All these are very important, she said. 

But....but....I like the Petronas Twin Towers. It made our country famous all over the world and visitors from all over the world come to visit Malaysia and to see the twin tower.

How about I build all 3? Nice or not? Sorry ya...My Play-Doh set doesn't have white color. Just imagine the white color of the paper is my white color Play-Doh lah. Is my design colourful? What do you think?

On second thought, I think I'll just submit this cup of truffles as what I think most represent Malaysia to me. Just like a cup of truffles, we  are a colourful community that came from many backgrounds and religion. We live in this little glass cup  called Malaysia in harmony and peace. Together we blended well and we are nice and sweet like truffles. You can never have too much of Malaysia.

Yes, this is what I think most represent Malaysia to me. 

Bunga Tongkeng/夜来香 - Edible Flower

Oh my kucing! Mamarazzi really 發花癫 ? Gone crazy about flower ah? On Wednesday morning she went to the morning market and bought these.

Papa asked for what? She said the seller told her that these are edible flowers. The seller said it's called 夜来香. Wah lau eh....luckily it is not called  夜香(poo).

Mamarazzi asked her gardening "kaki(s)" and they told her it's called Bunga Tongkeng/Bunga stokin/Chinese Violet/Tonkin Jasmine/Bunga Tangkal Ledang/Fragrant Telosma and the scientific name is Telosma Cordata.

When Papa heard the word Tongkeng he laughed and asked whether she knows what it meant or not. Of course she knows and the flowers doesn't have tongkeng ayam smell leh. In fact it has a sweet scent.

Her gardening members taught her a few recipes on how to cook this. Among that  :-

1) Cook soup- just some anchovies/mince meat/pork ribs, salt and egg with this.


2) Omelette

3) Stir fry with any kind of meat/minced meat or seafood like prawns and clams.

4) eat raw as "ulam".

Mamarazzi opt for stir fry with meat. Easy. Just slice the meat thin and marinate it with salt and soy sauce for half an hour. Chop some garlic. Put a bit of oil into the wok, fry the garlic till fragrant and add in the meat. When the meat are nearly cooked, just add the flowers. Done. Oh ya...just add a bit of salt to taste.

She asked me to be guinea pig taste wor but I said "no thanks". Papa tasted. Said nice. Last Mamarazzi taste. She said good also. Taste a bit like the stir fried lily bulb that she had in Cameron Highland. Only that these are not as sweet as the Lily Bulbs

 Papa told Mamarazzi not to cook all. Leave some for him to eat as Ulam.

 Eat as ulam taste sweeter than when it's cooked wor.

Yesterday she went to pasar (market) again; hunting for this flower. Lucky for her, yesterday there were two stalls selling this.

According to her gardening members, eating this flower is good for the eye sight. Feedback from her members is that now very hard to find this flower being sold in the wet market.

Came home ...made omelette.  Too stingy. Put too little  flowers coz she wanted to make soup pulak today.

Now she planning to plant this at home. Then harvest the flowers for cooking. Not bad leh....it would give out lovely scent and can be eaten . Just perfect leh. Gotta go to nursery in Sg Buloh to find liao. 

Roast Meat at Restaurant First Kwong Chow, Ipoh (Not Halal)

I must be getting old or what.....after the lunch I felt so sleepy leh. Sleep sleep ...dunno how and dunno why and dunno where I end up at.

Eye half open and saw Auntie Claire and more friends. Mamarazzi asked me to wake up and call "Auntie Nancy" wor. I also blur blur sotong say "hi" then zzz ....

 Opened eyes again then saw this plate full of roast pork infront of me. Still wanna sleep. Then Mamarazzi stuffed fed me some of the crunchy skin....ngap ngap ngap....mmmm.....hey...not bad leh....in fact pretty good leh. I want all the crunchy skin!!!! Gimme gimme gimme!

 Got this special meat. Not sure what is the name. 

One part lean meat like Char Siew and one part fat. Wah....Mamarazzi like oh. Aiyo...Auntie Claire why tarak say got second round. Then Mamarazzi would have leave some room for more food leh. Must come here again to have this. 

 This chinese sausages also quite good but kalah by the above half half meat.

 Many people queue up just to buy the roast meat from here leh. Managed to snap the phone number. Errrr....if you wanna try out...do call up first. Dunno whether it's all sold off leh.

 See the queue. Though long queue but we got our food very fast. Yay!

Auntie Nancy gave Mamarazzi some white Rain Lily. Fuiyoh.... hers so healthy and big leh. Have re-pot the Rain Lily. Looking forward to its flowering

For me....I was sleepy leh after the big meal but when arrived at the hotel...no more sleepy liao. Pestered Mamarazzi to bring me go swimming.

A good swim before the next makan. Hahaha...

The restaurant is located at 59, Lorong Taman 11, Taman Pertama 30100 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

Yong Tau Foo at Kedai Kopi Kwong Hong , Ipoh

 Wah very "the" hunrgy leh. Morning breakfast already digested long time ago.  Is this the shop? Auntie Claire said eat "liew". What is "liew" ? Is it shop name is "liew"?

 Hehehe....bikin malu...went to the wrong shop.

 Wah...Yong Tau Foo....ohhh this is called "liew" ya. Oh my kucing! so many choices leh.  

 One table not enough...add with few more table leh. Just like hotel buffet leh.

Lucky for us that Auntie Elin and her husband can early and "chup" a table for us. We don't have to stand and wait for table. Thank you very much , Auntie Elin!!!

 But for the food had to wait long oh..... half hour leh. Coz that was eve of public holiday and lunch time some more .

First, have to "kiap" the "liew" ...then the bowl of "liew" will have to queue up. Wah....very long queue leh. Queue like snake till "S" shape and "U" shape and also have "apartment" stacking up leh. 

 While waiting....drink some and eat some "Thong Sui" first la. 

 Papa spied next table ordered this. He also ordered la. Hey....not bad leh. Cooling on such a hot day.

 Finally, our food arrived liao. I had the Ipoh Hor Fun. A type of flat noodles. 

 Some fried stuffs. Very crispy as it was just out from the wok. 

 Some soupy stuffs.

 And some vegetables. Too bad that the fish paste had fell out of the vegetables. Still tasted great.

Was surprised at the price of the YTF/Liew here. Only 60sens a piece. Wah lau eh...if in KL , the price already doubled lo.

 Papa's eyes very sharp one leh....also spied next table having this mushroom chicken feet. Ordered one bowl. He said very nice wor. Not that oily too. Said next time wanna come here to eat this again.

Sorry ah...didn't manage to snap photo of the shop when it's open. The next day pass by this shop again , baru found out the name of the shop. It's Kedai Kopi Kwong Hong.

 Address :  684, Jalan Besar Gunung Rapat, Gunung Rapat, Gunung Rapat. Ipoh.


By the way, Curious Corner  at Amcorp Mall and Fahrenheit88 are having Garage Sale. Check out Mamarazzi's write up at Mama Kucing Meow  Blog

Dinosaurs at Qing Xin Ling Leisure & Cultural Village, Ipoh

 After "borong" mooncakes at Ming Yue Confectionery, we met up with Auntie Claire at her house. Together off we went to Qing Xin Ling Leisure & Cultural Village.

Entrance fees was RM4 per person. Same price for kids too. Auntie Claire's hand very fast leh. After paying the entrance fees . they gave us a bunch of bookmarks as souvenir. Auntie Claire mentioned it used to be keychains leh.


Wah lau eh...that day was 人山人海(human mountain, human sea) leh. Hmmm......all must have read Auntie's Claire blog hence this place become so popular liao. Used to be pretty quiet leh when Auntie Claire went the first time.

Despite everything, I managed to get a free bicycle to ride there. Yup..they provide free bicycle for the visitors to ride around. The place is quite big

 Argghhhhh!!! where is the brake......gonna fly into the lake liao.......

  Mamarazzi kept asking me to stop and pose for photos. Adui...kacau la.

 Am doing fine zooming here and there. Mamarazzi said very scenic here. Sure on weekdays many couples will come and take pre-wedding photos here.

 Then I spotted many people going up the hill. I wanted to go to. Mamarazzi had to follow me up. She was walking so slow leh. Slow coach.

 

Papa very clever oh. He stayed at the foot of the hill and enjoy a bowl of cooling Cendol leh. Quite cheap leh . Only RM3 a bowl.

 Hello! hello! emergency. Can get me an ambulance? Mamarazzi wanna pengsan liao. Said no more breath to climb further up the hill leh though we had barely started.

 Phewitt! so many love notes here. Stingy Mamarazzi don't wanna give me money to hang a few love notes here for my girlfriends.  Said gonna pokai lo coz too many girlfriends liao.

 Aiya...Papa should have follow us up leh. Here also got Cendol leh. Errrrr...at least got the machine la.....a bit dusty but can still use gua.

 What's this? A  flour mill? Very antique leh. 

 Along the hill there are many small partition building with old junks antiques. Mamarazzi kept stopping and exclaiming at the sights.

 Very thirsty by the time arrive near the top of the hill. I wonder what is at the very top . How I wish I could just take an open one of these bottles and drink...but probably expired liao gua. Another old bottle from the time when Mamarazzi was just a kid wor.

 HELP!!!!!!! Dinosaurs!!! Run!!! I thought at the top of the hill got something interesting....mana tau there is a nest of dinosaur leh.!!

 Wanted to run and hide in this little hut. 

 

But Mamarazzi said why go and hide in the "jamban"(toilet) la. So stinky dei!

 

Alamak! That one is "jamban" ah? Better get some water to clean my feet leh. . Hah...no running water ka? Have to manually pump ka?

Also no water here.

 Maybe can take from this well kot? Or maybe this is a wishing well. If it is, I would wish for a Mosasaur come out and eat up the Indominus Rex lo. Ah? not Indominus Rex ka? They are Massospondylus ah?

 

Errr.....don't care la. I better cabut lari. I wonder if this motorbikes can still run. Next stop...time to makan leh...hungry liao.

Okay...if you are keen to see the dinosaurs...you can pay a visit to this place. Plenty of things to see and bicycles to ride.

Address: 22A, Persiaran Pinggir Rapat 5A,Taman Saikat, 31350, Ipoh, Perak,