The Canadian things i did.....

well, i did alot of Canadian things from Saturday to Sunday!

i really really love to share with you now, but i have a flight to catch at 8am, leaving this beautiful lovely memorable homestay at 6am?!

oh gosh i need to go to the backyard to pack all the snow into my luggage now!!!!!

i will share with you more photos upload when i got back to Singapore ok?
well, provided i will overcome the jetlag soon enough.

yes, i'm flying to Edmonton, then Vancouver then Hong Kong then Singapore.

i leave Yellowknife on Monday,willreach Singapore on Wednesday!!!!!!!!
so scary! hahahahahaha........

I'm starting to miss Yellowknife already......
:S

it's getting warmer....snow is melting....

it's -3 degree C this morning, kind of warm today, and most of the road starts to get really wet, slushy and dirty now. :S

but still, we have to go to the annual Caribou Carnival, a 3days fun-filled activities in Yellowknife.
with aboriginals (natives) item, hot food and drinks tentage, little games tentages for the young ones, a small performing stage where i saw 3 guys doing the country rock thing!


oh! the dog race is going on at another venue too! it's a event where it gets everyone in the city involve.

it held on Frame Lake this year. No worry, it's frozen and strong enough to hold the whole community there! :p


just a reminder. you need to get a button (CA $3, pin up) on you else you will be lock up in a real cell!!! :p

hey i am serious hor~~~ dont ever think of gate crashing or thought nobody will notice you had walk in for free. there are marshals patrolling the area.

There are several tentages aound the lake, but this big white tent? it's the performing ground for the Aboriginal, or natives of northern Canada, or you can also know them as the first community to live here first.

this is a very native form of activity, whereby they will get in two rows, facing each other, with the help of the strong rythem of vocal and drumming. the heat is on!

With hand gestures, facial expression, no verbal interaction; they take turn to guess who has the coin in their hand in the opposite team. they uses wooden sticks as betting token. and the team with the most sticks,wins.

it's kind of fun to watch there.

my horrible photogrphy skills cannot express the strong music beat and vocal echoing inside the tentage. but, it's really an wonderful experience to see.

this white tentage is the most packed among the rest, and i also discovered one thing; there's a hot air machine outside the tentage, blowing hot air into the tentage, to ventilate the tentage.

oh yeah! it's always a wonderful thing to have a cup of hot drinks in the middle of freezing condition. this latte (small) cost me CA $3.35 plus tax.

yes, i know i wear like i am inSingapore.... hello!? i AM a tourist here leh~~~~ :p

tonight's dinner were some miscommunication.

We were sort of coming back late to make dinner, Ginny's parents thought we will be making dinner again. so....

Ginny's mom makes a pasta quickie! with ready-frozen meat sauce and she just need to cook the pasta and defrost/heat up the gralic bread.

and me? i quickly marinate the chicken wings and deep fry them to a nicely done texture to go with the meat sauce pasta.

yeah....you can say it's the west-meet-east dinner again! :p

ha ha ha ha .....

Bullock's Bristo @ Yellowknife

this is just a portion/part of the ceiling only.... this whole place is basically written all over! err... well, not the kitchen stove...yet! hahaha
Client brings their own felt-marker to leave a trace here. Some even stick their namecard on the walls! some even had their lovely pictures pin onto the walls too. :)

they made these soft bread themself! it has a slight hint of "yeast" smell, but it's sure soft n nice. Limited to 1 per customer. Late-comer don't gets it. and this bread actually meant to give you something to munch while waiting for your fish to come.

They cook orders table by table. so we waited for quite some time.... i am hungry! :p

i can assure you that this bread is really good to suck up all the sauces on your plate when you finish your fish! they become even more delicious! and you get your plate wipe clean! :p

Voted the best Fish n' Chips by Reader Digest!

with lots of fresh lettuce and fresh deep-fried fries!

a bit of chopped garlic and parsley on top.

i had the "Pikalor" fish from the lake beside this bristo.

its fresh...taste n texture like our "Kuning" Fish in Sg.

For pan-fried, they pour a salty-sweet sauce over the fish.

it somehow taste like the "HK-steam fish" sauce kind of thing, but cooler version.

a small eating place with just few tables. Full house just when we were seated at about 5.30pm!

1 lady-chef cooking right in front of you, and 1 lady-server running the rest of the show!

Fries are cut into strips with a press-tool, just before deep-frying.

yupe! they put a whole potato in and press! and thick potatoes strips we have!

for 5 of us, we spent about CA$180 for 5 plates of pan-fried Fish n' Chips, with soft drinks and Tax included.

Northern Lights! Aurora Borealis! @Yellowknife

how lucky are we to see Northern Lights in our 1week-homestay in Yellowknife!

it's our 4th day of stay here and we finally get to see it! :) [the past few nights were cloudy]

even Ginny Parents said its not so common to see them now in Yellowknife. Although they use to see it every night when the sky is clear. Sometimes when it happen and will be gone within minutes you notice it.

but we sure watched for more than 15mins of tax free, admission free, best performance from the sky before we went to bed.

kenny took a few pic with his camera and here i share with you.

little facts:

Aurora Borealis (northernlights); are a phenomenon happening far above the Earth. The lights are born out of the solar winds flowing across the upper atmosphere and hitting gas molecules, which light up like a neon sign.

when it happen in the North, it also happen at the South at the same time, like mirror effect.

they moves, splits up, combines, changes every seconds, like they are dancing in the sky. and the Colours changes too. though i saw mostly green, but there's a faint red colour at the base of it.

it's like a wavvy, "foggy" kind of river, right above your head!

it's really beautiful.

an masterpiece by Mother Nature. :)

Video short clip to share! live from Canada.

This clip was taken on 25th march, between 1pm-2pm (Canada, Yellowknife Timing). Walking downhill and gtting back to the car.

Location: Prelude Lake (along Ingraham Trail, 30km from Yellowknife)

Reason: to snow picnic and visit the place where my childhood friend, Kenny, who had a wedding ceremony there, to marry Ginny; almost 2yrs ago during Summer. i couldn't make it then when my father had just passed away.

Inside Hot, Outside Cold!

here i am. cooking dinner for them. i am making sweet sour chicken and stir fry Pak Choy for them to go with plain rice.

i have difficulty using the electricity stove. everything seem so difficult to get heat up.
lucky i started to cook earlier so dinner still gets on time at 6pm! yummy......


here is CO-OP, where we can find limited "fresh" products...err.... actually they had been travelling for the past 24hrs before they can reach here.



everything was so expensive. i cannot find my Choy Sum or Kai Lan :(
i did saw some miserable soft Bean sprouts... nope, not the fresh crunchy type.....

guess what? a pineapple cost about S$8 plus??!?!?!?!?!?!

a Buang kwang (turnip) cost me about S$7 plus, which i can get in Singapore for ...say.... S$1.50?? but i need them to make spring roll for them.
they love deep fried spring rolls and sweet sour pork!

it's my very first experience to shovel snow on walkways.
it was snowing the night before, the snow is soft and fluffy. when i threw it out it actually flew like it was snowing.

but the moment i move it or stepped on it, it become compact, heavy and harder to shovel.

last saturday, just one day before i arrive in Yellowknife, the temperature was -35degree C, with a windchill of -46 degree C!!! (windchill = windy and temperature drops even lower)

as this place started off as a Gold Mines, now a diamond mines plus a exotic travlling place for tourist who wanted to explore the north icy climate and also to view the Northern Lights.

:o)

Canada photos....just a few....

me, at Calgary Farmer's market. winter period it only opens friday to sun.

lots of beautiful fruits and veggies!

outside of Ben & Linda house in Calgary.

only 8 degree C. so warm....

I'm at Yellowknife, Ginny's parent home.

it was -25 degree C when we touch down

now, about -17 degree C when i took this pic.

look at how i am wrapped up !

hahahaha........

Yellowknife @ Canada -25 degree C

good night from Yellowknife, Canada. :)

it's 9.20pm, 22nd march, sunday here.
i am 15hrs behind you in singapore.

i arrived yellowknife airport this morning about 10am, no aerobridge so have to come down of the plane and walk to the airport. and it was -25 degree C!

actually there's not much of a difference from -1 degree C lastnight at Edmonton, the capital of Alberta.

Alberta is one of the province of Canada. freezing!hahahaha...

lucky Ginny parents lent me the thick winter clothings. at least to keep abit warm.
it get warmer in the afternoon, about -15 degree C. now it drop lower at night time again. well....the sky only start to get dark around 8 plus just now only.

i'd good home meals here. and Ginny's Mom - Hazel, she actually drive us around to get to know of this town who was once popular of gold mines, now? even better.....diamond mines! :p

the lakes here mostly are so frozen that they can drive truckers on it.

:)

Edmonton -1 degree C now!

i'm at Edmonton now. it's a 30mins flight from Calgary.

Edmonton is the captital city of Alberta. and Alberta is one of the province of Canada.

freezing cold here. abt -1 degree C now.
homestay at Ginny friends.
cos i am flying to Yellowknife at 8am later.

:o)

its 6.40am (Calgary time)
slept at 9.30pm, but still woke up at 2am to pee! hahaha
then continue to sleep for another 2 hrs before i woke up feeling hot n headache.
guess i kena fever liao hahaha...

took panadol just now, so i felt much better now.

lastnight i managed to call back my family using the calling card.

today whats our plan?
go skiing! hahaha

will go and take photos too.
hmmm miss home liao
hahahaha

:p

Greetings from Calgary-Canada

Good morning!

it's about 8am here. its Thursday here.
i am 15 hours behind Singapore time. so your side is Friday la.

i am home staying at friend's place. we sleep at the basement, the owner sleeps in the 2nd floor.
nice bed and thick warm blankets! so shiok!!!!

i slept at 10.30pm but woke up at 2am. jet lag la... cannot sleep liao.
then i use my mobile phone to search for radio to listen. guess what?

i managed to hunt down a chinese radio station, mainly playing cantonese pops, some chinese pop and cantonese opera!!!! hahahaha....

had a nice breakfast made by Ben and Linda.
we had toast bread with egg and cheese. cinamone bun, cranberries juice and green tea!
so shiok!

it's 8am but outside it look like Sg's 6am??? dark dark....

okok the sun is coming in... am getting ready to go out to walk a natural trail behind the house.

yes its freezing cold outside and walking on snow is what i'd been wishing for!

yeah!!! see you later!

:o)

马蹄糕+加拿大

奇怪？马蹄糕和加拿大有什么关系呢？

答案是。。。

没有关系。

哈哈哈哈。。。。。马蹄糕是我去加拿大之前跟家人吃饭，为家人特别做来当甜品的啦。

我自己亲手做的马蹄糕特别加料！马蹄特别多！
每一口都是马蹄的鲜甜味道。
吃了满嘴都甜到说不出话来了。。。。

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈


今天趁下了班赶快去换了一些加币。
我后天就要飞了。去加拿大北部 - YellowKnife。

没有听过吧？我也是。

听我这位认识了近30年的同学的加拿大太太说，
她的家乡可以看到北极光的。那里现在温度零下30多。
还可以体验冰上钓鱼的乐趣。等等等。。。。

很期待。很担心。
长那么大从来就没有飞过那么远的地方。

如果有机会，我一定跟你分享我这次的旅程的心情。

我会和他们夫妇俩一起回去。
搭国泰去温哥华，中途在香港转机。
17个小时后抵达温哥华后就必须赶紧出关，
再赶往内陆机场转搭另一班在2个小时后起飞前往Calgary的内陆航班。

到了Calgary会暂住两晚，然后搭飞机到Edmunton；
然后从Edmunton直接转机去YellowKnife，Ginny的家乡。
行程是相当紧凑，不过也是我的另一种体验。
感觉会怎么样我也不知道。




只能说。。。原来世界真的那么大。

雪菜DIY

要怎么做呢？其实用料很简单。

去巴刹买小芥菜和粗盐。

记得！不要早上去买哦！
原因？

早上的新鲜所以价格会比较贵！
等到下班时后去买可以省下一半的钱哦！

买回来后把根部切掉；冲一冲水把泥沙冲洗掉。
吊起来把表面上的水份风干。
如果能够直接拿到太阳底下晒还可以缩短风干的时间哦！

风干后就用粗盐和姜片一起搓揉。
盐不用太多，感觉够咸味就好了！
不然发现太过咸的时候，还要浸泡在水里，是会把菜味也洗掉的。

记住： 先搓揉然后搁置15分钟。用重物压着。
回头再搓揉然后搁置15分钟。
最后把菜和菜汁一起收进塑料盒，盖紧。收冰箱里头冷藏。
腌2-3天就可以用来炒雪菜肉丝了！

腌好后的样子！
你还可以闻到菜香哦！

炒好后的雪菜肉丝！
（哦！湃写啦！给你们看到我用那么多的肥猪肉来炒！）

配白粥就特别好吃！

对不起！

哗！不知不觉已经有接近一个月没有写东西了！
不好意思啊。。。

最近忙得好充实。忙得很开心哦。
工作。。读书。。看戏。。做菜。。看电视节目。。上网。。实习风水。。拜拜。。感觉时间超不够用。

我知道我欠了好几份食谱。
请你放心啦，我一定会陆陆续续把它们上载到“明厨料理”部落格。

我需要时间！谁能给我时间? 哈哈。。。 :P

我要自己腌雪菜了哦！
这几天老是下大雨。没办法才如此变通，用晾衣架把小芥菜高挂风干。

先把小芥菜冲洗干净。把表面水分风干。如果能晒太阳更好！
然后用盐搓揉小芥菜。你也可以在这个时候加一些姜片和小辣椒一起搓。
略微搓一下让盐分布均匀就可以了。
用重物压着，十五分钟后再搓揉翻搅一次；再用重物压多十五分钟。
最后把腌菜连汁一起收好，放冰箱冷藏，1-2天后就可以拿来炒“雪菜肉丝”了！

如果做多了还可以跟邻居分享哦！

糖醋松鼠鱼

这是我小明生平第一次从买鱼，刮鱼鳞，清理内脏，起骨，修饰松鼠头到烹煮出的“明菜” - 糖醋松鼠鱼!
哈哈哈哈。。。果然是惨不忍睹！

一条好好的金目鲈给我折腾到不像样。
还好是在家里煮的。要是在学校弄的，肯定。。。不敢想象！哈哈哈。。。

苦瓜焖排骨！

家人吃了赞不绝口！哈哈。。从没那么风光过！哈哈哈哈。。。

很简单的。想不想吃啊？