A Baby Food Review: Tous Les Jours Sesame Tapioca Bread Mix

Hi guys!

Remember this?

This is the 'Sesame Ball' from Paris Baguette, when I went to Seoul in 2012! I remember loving it so much I wanted to take it back home with me.

I am still loving it to this day, and trust me, you will not experience what joy is till you have this.

It's texture is so chewy, so it's really nom-able!

It has a strong taste of sesame, so if you're not a sesame lover you're not gonna like this.

Each day I crave and wait for a miracle that one day Singapore will have this!

Singapore has its own Paris Baguette's franchises, but the thing is that...

THEY DON'T SELL THE SESAME BALL TT_____TT

Devasted and sad, I was browsing around Parkway's Seoul Mart when I spotted the Tours Les Jours Sesame Ball mix!

OMG! I have seen it a couple of times in that mart, but since I was sad and really craving for these little sesame goodness, I decided to just buy the mix and see what happens.

The instructions are mostly in Korean but I tried my best to guess the ingredients (with some help from a  few websites) and finally did it almost perfectly!

In the box, you'll get 2 premixes, so you can make another batch of these whenever you crave for them!

The ingredients that you'll need are:

• Premix (250g)
• 1 egg
• Milk (90 ml)

Thats all! So freaking simple right?! You don't even need yeast! Okay let's get started!

First up, mix the egg and milk together. I'm using oat and normal milk mixed together but you can certainly use normal milk.

After mixing those two ingredients, add in the premix.

At this point, you might want to switch to a spatula because it's gonna be really hard to stir as it's gonna form into a dough.

After kneading it with the spatula or your hands, it should look like this.

Okay, at this point, grab a handful of dough (for some websites, it says 40grams) and roll it into a ball, and then just place it onto a baking tray.

Bake for about 30 minutes and to test to see if its okay, your sesame ball should be a tad lighter than the original weight of the uncooked doughball.

My batch only made 6 sesame balls but some people state that theirs make at least 9.

There you have it! Your very own homemade, delicious and chewy sesame balls!

You can add some optional ingredients like matcha powder or cheese.

Okay so.. Annyeong! I hope you have a fun time making this recipe!

Baby Food Review: Hey Cupcakes!

Hey all! So, today, I was walking around Joo Chiat Community Centre area with Cordell, when we came across a shop called Hey Cupcakes! I remember seeing it when I was in bus 16 a few weeks back, and I wanted to try the cupcakes out! So, I bought 4 cupcakes to try at home!

(P.S The location of the shop is just opposite Joo Chiat CC, well, really near there anyways)

You can buy the cupcakes in boxes of 2,4,6 & 12! They come in this really cute purple box that you can carry home safely! The shop owner is really nice too! ^^

The cupcakes vary in prices however. The daily cupcakes, like the Red Velvet or Grasshopper costs $3, while the special ones like Over the Rainbow costs $4. The special ones also comes out randomly on a weekly basis!

Each cupcake is sweet smelling and beautifully decorated^^

Caramel Crunch

They don't have a description for this cupcake, so :/

Appearance: 8/10

Taste: 9/10

Wow, this cupcake was super fluffy and moist. Also, there was a strong taste of caramel, and a slight hint of vanilla. The buttercream icing was also quite salty, which complemented well with the caramel.

Over the Rainbow

Cream cheese on rainbow vanilla cake.

Appearance: 9/10

Taste: 7.5/10

Fluffy and moist, this cupcake would be the best treat for a sweet tooth. However, I'm not that much of a sweet tooth, so this didn't really do it for me. There was also a hint of almond flavour in there, or was it just me? Didn't really taste homemade either, but it's still a nice treat.

Grasshopper

Peppermint infused cream cheese on Valrhona chocolate cake

Appearance: 8.5/10

Taste: 7.5/10

I was hoping that this would taste really good as I love peppermint and chocolate together. They are like, soulmates man. But I was a little disappointed, as the icing wasn't really smooth, it stuck to the knife as I was cutting a small portion of it. Also, the icing was a little sour, but maybe it's cuz today is such a humid day, and I ate it right away when I got home instead of leaving it in the fridge to cool a little.

Banana Split

Valrhona chocolate buttercream on Banana cake

Appearance: 8/10

Taste: 9/10

Whoa. This cupcake was good. The chocolate buttercream gave a rather nice finish to the sweet banana cake under it. The banana cake was also infused with some chocolate chips, which is found at the bottom of the cupcake. Overall, this cupcake was a bomb.

So these are the 4 cupcakes that I have tasted, I hope that you would go find that shop and try it out! You can eat your cupcakes in the shop itself as well!

You can also mass order if you want to!

You can visit their website here for more information!

Happy tasting! Good luck!

Annyeong!

A Baby Food Review: Cheese Bokki

Hey everyone! So today I was at Parkway shopping for random items when I came across this guy right here.

I found it at the Seoul Mart? Which I'm sure can be found in Seoul as well. Anyways, I heard quite alot of good reviews for it and just decided to give it a try.

It costs around... $1.70 I think. It is quite expensive for a tiny cup of Cheese Bokki but it's really really worth it! I was also thinking if I wasted my money on this little guy right here..

Well anyways, this cup definitely comes with instructions that you and I both cannot read (Unless you can read hangul or are a korean)

Anyways, I managed to figure out how to work with this and it turned out pretty well!

Step 1: Take out the packaging.

It should come with the noodles and a baggie of cheese powder. 

Leave the cheese powder aside first, and pour hot water into the cup at the given line.

Wait for about 4 minutes, When 4 minutes is up~~

The words read here is "kkok! kkok! kkok! kkok!" which is supposedly the popping sound. So just poke holes in the 4 words.

Then, just drain all the water from the cup.

After doing that, quickly mix in your cheese powder with the noodles. I know, it sounds weird, but just trust me on this one.

After mixing it, you're free to eat it! However, if you do not like your noodles this plain, then you can add in any side meat! Like sausages, or spam or even veggies.

I added black pepper chicken ^^ Anyways, verdict of this food?

It was amazingly awesome. It tasted really really good! Okay, maybe at first it tasted a little weird? Cuz usually non soupy noodles and cheese powder just sounds really gross together, but it's actually really nice! The cheese tastes abit like cheddar, so it's kinda salty as well. I let my brother try it and he said it's nice as well.

I ate the rest btw, yes it is very filling even though I bought the smaller cup, so if you are gonna buy the bigger cup, I recommend you share it with a friend if you have a small stomach. If you think you can handle the big one, well that's good for you!

So, I hope that you all just go to your local korean mart and buy one of this Cheese Bokki back home and try to make it! It's really really good! That I can promise you!

P.S. This is coming from my own opinion. 

Annyeong!