Creative Living Home & Kitchen moving out sale till Mid-March.

This shop by far is one of my fave shop around, or at least it out of convenience.

They carry a bunch of cool kitchen gears of many cool brands.

Was there this Saturday & we grab a couple of great deals.

This AMORIM 2-in-1 placemats are super functional. You won't have to find coasters cos it come with the placemats! How smart is that? Even better @ $11.25 less 40% each pack is 4pcs.
That's $1.68 per pc. Cheaper than IKEA...

Bodum another big brand, it's coffee press I had been eying for the longest time is $49.80! Previously $ 79.00 & in my fave green.

Lastly, Italian 4 tier mini trolly @ half price (was $49.00 now $24.90)

Unlike the normal white boring ones, this is again powder coated in green.

Creative Living Home & Kitchen is located in Harbourfront center #03-52

Lease is up to mid March we heard.

Home Party 02: Guest Chef 三菜一汤 cook off 20/11/10

We had great honor of 2 chefs gracing our kitchen. It all started when we bitch about how woman can't cook nowadays & shockingly man can. The bitch soon became reality when we have a shodown of a married couple.

 

By Chinese Chef Aileen: 

Sharkfin melon with pork bone soup, 

Steamed pork ribs, 

Braised sesame chicken & 

Siew pak choy with mushroom.

By Dessert Chef Lester : 

Mango Pudding with yoghurt & tangerine

On the dining table. Home cooked 三菜一汤

paired with Moscato

Tip: If you are lazy pigs like us, cooking to this magnitude is really tiring. So, it makes perfect sense to invite a friend over to share receipes, tips & trick on how to prepare a express meal. Plus we got 4 hands to do the dishes & it only cost a little bit more to cook 4 portions, that saving on economy of scale.

The Damage :
Food : Ingredients $60 with lotsa surplus that can cook another meal for 2
Drinks : $46 for 2 bottles of wolf blass with free 2 wine glass!

Home Party 01: Friends Farewell 13/11/10

3rd week of here and we have a sudden news that one of our uni-mates is taking a oversea position. So all look up to our venue for a nice cozy farewell.

While running on a budget and knowing this fella is gonna miss local food, we threw him a local feast hawker food party.

For drinks, our friends came with 1 bottle Moscato, 1 bottle Traminer Riesling, 1 pack 1.5L Shochu, 12 can mixers & from our collection, 4 bottle premium Sake, 1 bottle Moscato, half bottle SKYY Vodka with mixer & couple of beers. [Seems like we are really going to get wasted]

We prep a nice cocktail for early birds to open their appetite!

Recipe : Summer Berry Breezer

Step1 : Pour in tall glass, 2 part SKYY Vodka Berry, 2 tablespoon IKEA organic mixed berry jam. Muddle & stir to make sure jam is not chunky. 

Step2: Build in Jug, generous ice, Pour berry mix from tall glass, add 2 parts cranberry/pomegranate juice & 1 part lime juice. stir with long spoon & serve.

As the mixture is really rich, even when the ice melts it will still be just rite.

Dinner spread: giant platter of Ngor hiang, hokkien mee, char kuey teow & oh-luak.
Serve with Choice of white wines or beer.

After dinner, we sit down around our coffee table & bitch. Since there is a significant amount of Japanese booze, we dug out all our Jap snacks to go along with it. Dried octapus, rice crackers, calibee prawn crackers.

Being really informal, we serve the Hot & Cold sakes in a Vodka shot glass. As instructed by the sake dealer there is a sequence which to drink 1st.
This turns out to be quite like a impromptu Sake & Shochu appreciation. 

The Damage? [apart from severe liver damage & puke all over the place]

Food : $50 feeding 8 pax
Drinks : $64 for Sakes, $8 wine hand carry from Aus, Vodka from Duty-free

Tips : Try theme parties ideas that are hassle-free & hopefully cheap, like hawker fare. food are all tabao this reduce preparation time.
Stock up beers & hard liquor from duty-free & you won't feel the pinch when you to splurge on alcohol. Duty-free Vodka makes cheap cocktails & makes everyone high.

Lightings : Tord Boontje Garland [Installed]

Happy new year people!
This will be the first post of the year!

This lamp, probably the first lighting feature post about cool designs, had arrive via air from a ebay seller in US a while back. Featured in the previous post, you can find more details of Tord Boontje & the Garland for Artecnica

Its also the first thing we D-I-Yed in our place, apart from the lighting cord done by the Electrician, this GARLAND all done by myself.

Its actually a continuous strand of brass cut outs leaves & flowers just like a long vine.

Above is the lamp lighted up 

So what I did was to wrap it around this bulb over and over again trying my best to shade the direct light emitted from the bulb.

The bulb chosen is a 20 watts IKEA bulb which is rather not very bright. Also, this bulb have a rubbery coat on the glass which turns out to be really good as its not so slippery.

Lastly, we "sculpt" this by twisting out the leaves & flowers to form the structure, a bit like hair styling, pushing in to create volume & pinching out to create definitions.

Really fun, interactive & definitely 100% ownership!!