My own Chocolate Banana Cake

I am a baking-whore..hahaha sounds rude but then I love to bake when I am free, when I am stress, when I am happy or sad. Obviously, the outcome each time may differ depending on my mood and also recipes. I am not much of a 'pastry chef' as in I have never came up with my own recipes, being not much of a creative person. However, this time round after getting a good recipe on 'Blackout Cake'.
Info: Blackout cake
"Chocolate Blackout Cake is a rich chocolate cake that has a filling of Rich chocolate pudding and is frosted with the same rich pudding and covered with some of the cake crumbs, made popular by Ebinger's bakery that had stores in Brooklyn, New York"- from The History of Food.

I love this cake, despite the messiness of melting the chocolate,making the pudding, crumbling the chocolate cake (more complain from mum when she saw the crumbs and chocolate smears everywhere). Incidentally, (no surprise here) I like chocobanana cake too. And Voila! I came out up merging those two. By putting in sliced bananas in between the cake layers with the chocolate pudding... Well, people who tasted them seems to like them~ so no complain for me

Trader's Cafe- Beribi

BunutBoy and me went out for dinner two nights ago at Trader's Cafe at Beribi, near Supasave. Again, in the past I seldom go to that restaurant, maybe just once~! Anyway, with the introduction from BunutBoy, sometimes we go there for lunch and sometimes dinner.

In this instance, we ordered their Baby Kailan with Garlic, Sweet and Sour Fish Slices and Sweet Corn Soup. We are both impressed and happy with the generosity of the fish slices and they were not coated with a thick batter leaving just a thin slice of fish meat(like most restaurants). The fish meat was succulent and fresh, without the sauce drenching (flooding) the whole plate. However,I would have preferred the sauce to be more 'sweet & sour' as I can mostly taste only the sweet. The vegetables was done nicely, not overcooked and even the corn soup was done quite well. I never really ordered corn soup outside as I loved home cooked corn soup.

All in all the meal was good and price was reasonable. Not to forget to mention, sometimes I go there for their Ban Mian~ nice...

Prawn Mee- HAE MEE

The Hae Mee that I thought vanished from Beribi near Supasave, I found it.. thanks to Bunut Boy's Mom. It is near Bunut Boy's house just ~5 minutes away... You can either choose to sit outdoor or indoor, and this choice prove to be great for BunutBoy as he used to have to hold his breath when he went to the old place (only indoor).

I used to remember about their Hae Mee Koh Loh Mee with their LEGENDARY belacan chilli...wahhhhh... Yum Yum.. The prawns are still huge in size and flavorful. This time round I tried their Hae Mee Soup- the broth is strong in flavour however it should be taken as quickly before the soup gets cold; otherwise it gets too salty to take.

This is probably the only restaurant in Brunei that i order Prawn mee and am still quite happy with the taste of it. And I also realised that there are a lot of eating places in Bunut. So more hidden restaurant reviews to come soon~!

Bento Post No 2

I have not been posting recently due to... as usual... heavy work load. Now that I can have a breather, I am going to put up my post of my bento.


1st Bento
On the Menu:
First Layer- Mini Sausages with Scrambled Eggs (done using the microwavable egg cooker)& Potato Wedges
Second Layer- Oven Baked Salmon with Teriyaki Sause (in cute piggy sauce bottle)& Boil Broccoli and baby carrots.

Fruits: Strawberries & Persimmons




2nd Bento
On the Menu:
First Layer: Potato Wedges & Salad leaves w Semi Dried tomatoes
Second Layer: Revised Beef Burger Patties and new Tsukune (chicken) burger patties with Black pepper Sauce (success!~)

Bunut boy likes the new more spicier black pepper sauce =)
New suggestions: to replace wedges, getting tired of it... hmmm perhaps roast potatoes with rosemary, fried rice, or brown rice...

Been blog-hopping at bento-blogs.... waaa.... so cute... can't resist going online shopping for bento supplies. The problem with Brunei, its hard to get proper Bento supplies. There used to be a Daiso at the Kiulap Mall but then it has close down quite some time ago. Now I can only scourge for bento supplies at certain supermarkets that might stock up some taiwan/japanese goods.. or ONLINE SHOPPING~~

Third Day at Kuala Lumpur

The days just sort of flew by when we are both enjoying the holiday in Kuala Lumpur, we shopped and shopped and of course our main aim (as usual) is to get good food.

During the third day in KL, we were both in MidValley. We weren't sure as to where to go especially for lunch. We ended up going back and forth, round in circles to actually settle down on which restaurant to it.

Place: Fong Lye restaurant- who serve Taiwanese Cuisine (and it was Packed!~~).

Menu: Beef Noodle Soup Set (BunutBoy)
Spring Onion and Ginger Beef set (ManggisGirl)

Verdict:To me, it was done really well and worth the money.

Very good lunch and by the time we gotten back from lunch, we went to Pavillion for my HUGE glass of 'Hooergarden'

KL Trip Day Two

I would think to blog about the whole of 'the pailang' trip in detail is a tad bit too over. However, the highlight of the second day(food-wise) was dinner time. We finally track down 'Beef Noodle'. In actual fact, before we both set out to KL, we actually did research and look at blogs on KL food. We then came across with a blog that actually introduce Beef Noodles, and coincidentally I also came across the same branch of Beef-ball noodle soup in Lot 10, Bukit Bintang.

Bunut Boy ordered a small-noodle with beef ball soup as can be seen from the photos. I ordered from other stall :P not too great, I can't really recall what I ordered at that time actually, So i won't bother to... hehe

I tried the noodle from BunutBoy and we both agreed:

1. Noodle with Beef minced Meat
Verdict: We both really liked it, not only the noodle having a nice bite to it, the minced beef meat on the top of the noodle was really very good. I think you don't need any more 'little bit of soya sauce' to it.

2. Beef meatballs in clear soup

Verdict: I liked the meat balls, although we both agree that the soup was slightly too salty for our liking.


All in all, Bunutboy ordered another small kohlomee.

Another great day of food in Kuala Lumpur...