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This Banana chiffon cake is fluffy, airy and delicately textured. The natural banana flavor and it's sweetness is just nice. Banana  Chiffon Cake (香蕉戚风蛋糕) Recipe adapted from the book of 果子 学校-Eicole de patisserie (in chinese) Ingredients: A) 3 egg yolks (60gm) 20g castor sugar 30g corn oil  50g plain flour 60g mashed banana (about i medium size banana) 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (i used 1/2 a vanilla pod) B) Meringue 3 egg white (90g) 50g castor sugar 1 tsp lemon juice (i added) To do: 1) Preheated oven at 170C 2) Mix ingredient A) with a whisk till just evenly mix. Set aside. 3) In a mixing bowl whisk egg white until frothy. Add lemon juice continue whisk till egg whites form thick foam. Gradually add in castor sugar, continue whisking till egg white reach firm peak stage. 4) Add egg whites (meringue) into egg yolk mixture in 3 batches. Use a whisk to mix in the first batch. Then change to a spatula to fold in the other 2 batches. S...

Kueh Kodok or Cekodok or cucur is a delicious Malay kueh (bite size snack). It is very common in Malaysia and Brunei. It it sell by small hakwer vendor around the street corner or pasar malam (night market) or pasar tani (weekend market). It is a simple kueh that is deep fried with only a few ingredients. The main ingredient is banana. The banana is mash and  mix with flour, brown sugar and a pinch of salt, then it is deep fried into this yummy fritters. Kueh Kodok 或 Cekodok 或 cucur 是种传统的马来糕点， 在马来西亚和文莱很普遍。在街边小巷或pasar malam可找到小贩在卖。但是我没吃过哦！要谢谢 Fion 和 Joceline ，如果不是她们的分享我也吃不到这美味的传统糕点。不同的地区叫法不同。Kueh Kodok是炸的糕点 做法简单，成品超好吃呢！！外皮带酥，内松和柔软，炸出来的颜色较黑褐色！ 黑褐色的 Kueh Cekodok外貌一般，味道可不一般。 炸 好了， 就把老幺叫来，想让他尝尝后在借我他的小拇指。可是他用很怪的眼神看着这糕说；妈咪，这是什么？像‘BOM'。我说你咬一口，看看？他不想试但是还是咬了一口。他脸上露出了好好吃的神情。Yeah!! 就是好吃！   Kueh Kodok is a simple but delicious street snack. It might not look that appealing but it taste really delicious. It is crispy outside, soft and spongy inside  ^_^ I offer my ...

It's another exciting month for Little Thumbs Up. We have a special host this month she is  from BitterSweetSpicy. She is the one and only FAEEZ. Why is she so special, simply because she is from a different culture. Isn't it wonderful to be living in Malaysia and Singapore, we are the country with multi-races and multi-culture. With this we share and learn from each other. Please visit her blog BitterSweetSpicy, you will know what i mean :D Faeez, Zoe and i welcome you to host with us in Little Thumbs Up-March !!! Dear All!  Come join us in Little Thumbs Up event; March-Banana month.    Last night my hubby ask me: What is your LTU theme this month? Me : Banana ... O my O my!! I forgot to buy banana today!!!!  Hub: No worries! We just drive down to the nearest 'Tamu Muhibah' (tamu in malay means open market) to hunt for some banana. Me: It's already 9pm now... we better hurry up! I am lucky i found some bananas in the other tamu and not the Tam...