Some more 15mins Ovens cooking Trial

Tried cook the mussels + mushroom + some carrot, it tasted well and consider succeed, but still need to improve the foods combinations.Tried on chicken drum sticks with vegetables + carrots, tasted well but visually not nice, because should put in the vegetables in the last 3 minutes, not all the way cook in 15mins.

My DIY Fish Fillet

Found an offered frozen fish fillet in NTUC, bought home and decided do a DIY food.I washed it, de-frozen it and prepare the simple ingredients: Korean mushroom (also having offer) plus some ginger.Add 1 tea spoon of : sesame oil, oyster sauce, oil, ‘hua diao’ Chinese wine.
Pour all of them on the fish in the alminium foil tray, then add in the gingers and mushroom. Seal with aluminum foil and put in my ‘snack oven’.
My old oven only having 15mins maximum setting, I need t cooks twice, means 15mins + 15mins to make sure the fillet thoroughly cook.It doesn'tlooksnice, but I like the taste. :)

Mid Autumn Festival Event

Did 2 events today for two places during these few climax day of the seasonal “Mid Autumns Festival Celebrations”. Completed the Palmistry introduction at Limbang Shopping Centre at 6.45pm, then quickly rush to Senja Road Blk 630, Park area for another caricature booking at 7.00pm! That really ‘Kan Cheong’ (nervous) for me because as an event artist, never been allowed to be late! Luckily I managed to make it.! Phew!The event at Senja Blk 630 was quiet fun, the residence down there was friendly as I met in past events at this place, that was really great! In this event, the happier peoples were the children, they really enjoy carrying the lanterns and doing the candles lighting!So do the adults!My caricature ‘booth’ was always long queue! No chance for me to think about a relaxing job, haahaa!That was great to met Wong’s Dragon Bead Candy in the event as well.

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple (佛牙寺) Candid

Passing by Chinatown and taken these series photos using my Nokia E61i. A senior photographer told me that to take a good photograph, is depend how good of your art level and how good you and take the photo, not how good of the camera, of course good camera do help on it.The temple had held a lantern making competition during this mid autumn festival; there were hanging many competitors’ work outside the temple. When I see this photo, I felt like that’s is not Singapore, that’s Japan! Haahaa! It is taken in Singapore, Chinatown, Buddha Tooth Relic Temple.

Honey Pomelo

Honey Pomelo is the seasonal fruit came with mid autumn festival, just like Durian and Mangosteen, if you eat durian, you need to eat Mangosteen as well because Mangosteen can release the heat from the Durian fruit.So do Honey Pomelo, it can release the fullnest feeling after you ate moon cake. Basically, you can drink Chinese tea, that was another solution.

The Branded Moon Cake Legend in Singapore: 大中国月饼

Passing by Chinatown during this ‘Mid-autumn Festival’ period, you can see a long queue of people buying the moon cake made by ”大中国饼家” (I translate it as “Big-China Bakery”) I think they are the oldest shop which made moon cake in Singapore, in elder people’s mind, once you mentioned ‘Mid Autumn Festival’ in their mind immediately pop-up the scene of this shop! Hence, elder people mostly insist to buy moon cake from this shop!Not because of many other branded moon cake not good, but ”大中国月饼” is the longest and most well-known.There was a booth rented nearby Chinatown selling the same branded moon cake, but lack of customer, because most people worried they are the ‘pirated’ fake branded! Seems people only preferable to buy the moon cake at the shop no matter how long they need to wait!

More and more Color Caricature Drawing Request

I seldom do color caricature drawing, because I am not an aggressive people, also do not like to crash or so call undercut other people’s business. I seldom draw caricature in marker although I had learned marker drawing in Nanyang Academy of Fine Art long time ago. I don’t think just do one or two pieces of color drawing per month can became ‘undercut’ other artist who running a shop doing caricature and portrait drawing closing down due to poor business.
I still think Chong Jit Loeng of www.portraitworkshop.com and Kamal Dollah of www.cartoon.sg are the best.

I belonging to lazy type, means to draw one caricature, I will usually in such sequence: sketch - go for lunch or dinner- have a short sleep - continuing draw or coloring – eat something then continue to complete the drawing; haahaa!

Hopefully working such ‘lazy style’ should not caused somebody’s shop closing down.