Sweet Herbal Chinese Egg Tea

When i was a kid, I visited this restaurant at Taman OUG called Ah Loy Restaurant and since then I think I've discovered something really special. (:

A tea based tong shui which is sweet and with a little tinge of bitterness from the tea and herbs with an egg in the tong shui to balanced up the bitterness.

So here it is, an even better homemade version of that! It took me quite a while to research all this, spending so much time at various yok choi poh(chinese medicine shop) buying herbs, testing it, asking friends and family and also checking almost all the herbs website online.

But anyhoo, it turned out delicious! So do enjoy!

Sweet Herbal Chinese Egg Tea
Ingredients:
For Herbs Mixture,
Wu Yi Tea (Wu Yi Cha, 武夷茶)
Mulberry Mistletoe Stems (Sang Ji Sheng, 桑寄生)
Rehmannia Root/Chinese Foxglove Root (Shu Di Huang, 熟地黄)
Dried Orange Peel (Chen Pi, 陈皮)
Dried Longan (Long Yan Rou, 龍眼肉)
Chinese Angelica Root (Dang Gui, 当归)
Szechuan Lovage Root (Chuan Xiong,川芎)
Shelled Chestnuts (Mi Zao, 蜜棗)

Others,
A cup of water per serving
Brown Sugar to taste

Best to ask the sifu(master) in the yok choi poh(chinese medicine shop) to choose the ingredients for you because it would be a trouble to get specific amount of all the herbs. Make sure you tell them that this recipe is meant to be sweet.

Method:
1. Rinse the herbs twice (For hygienic purpose)
2. Boil herbs and water with low fire for at least 1-2 hours.
3. While herbs are boiling, cook hard boil eggs in a separate pot.
4. Remove shell from hard boil eggs and toss them back into the boiling herbs/ egg tea to allow them to absorb some flavour and leave for about half an hour.
5. Add brown sugar to taste and serve cold or warm with egg and longan.

Egg Tea is traditionally eaten cold. And trust me you would prefer the cold one over the hot ones.

Honestly readers, this is my second secret recipe( first one is on 芋虾 (Yu Xia) ).
Aren't you lucky?
I didn't share that recipe 'cause I felt this recipe's a little bit more special, plus its healthier and last but not least, though I may not know all of you personally, I love you ALL! Enjoy!

INVITED EVENT - Dome's Food Tasting

Disclaimer: This is a preview to the restaurant

DOME, the first thing that comes to my mind is coffee and a great place to mingle.
But everything changed since the day stepped into a Dome's Food Tasting event.
Never knew they served such an array of food.
Let me enlighten you readers, okay? :)
What they had to offer really suprised me!

Dome's current promotion offers a wide-ranging menu of iconic favourite's from all-day breakfast, hot kitchen specials, pies and cakes.

And one of the first iconic item i tried, Spicy Olio Pasta. This was cooked with beef bacon bits, capsicums, chili flakes and garlic! Its damn flavourful, trust me! Some people were complaining its a little oily but thats what an olio pasta should be right? Olio means olive oil in Italian. And its all good oil which gives you health benefits anyways.;)

Besides that, it wasn't that spicy even thou the name of it is called Spicy Olio Pasta which is a good thing for non chili lovers. And for you chili lovers, you can just request for some extra chili flakes. Noms away!

Fish and Chips

Gourmet Chicken and Mushroom Pie, after taking pictures of this and hearing everyone rawring about this, I just had to try it!

However it was gone after a few minutes! And probably half way getting digested by the everyones stomach ):
Guessed it must have be awesome and special but I didn't get to try it out. Maybe next time, my Gourmet Chicken and Mushroom Pie! I'm coming for you!

Catch of the day, marinated with cajun, cumin and lemon juice. Served with sautéed vegetables, buttered rice and joinville sauce.

Carrot Cake, honestly, this cake is just not my cuppa-tea and frankly I've never tried many nice tasting carrot cakes in my life. Guess I could be a lil' biased on this opinion, no offence to carrot cake lovers.

But a few highlights just to be fair. The cake was moist and served with a layer of cream cheese frosting and with that shredded coconut on the top it felt like you need to finish it all up :D

Besides the top 5 iconic items, there's also Caesar Salad, The Lot Burger, Mixed Grain, Wild Mushroom Soup, and our local Nasi Lemak. 

With all that yummy food that CCC got to try, you can bet that DOME has more to share.

They have given me 10 vouchers, but not for me. Its for me to distribute to YOU guys! (:
Lucky peeps, in my next post I'll let you know just how you can win them.
Stay tuned!

Espreski Honeycomb Goldrush, my new personal favourite which I had an immense craving for the next day. Uh-huh its that good.
Basically its a very rich Mocha ice blended serve with crunchy honeycomb chocolate and whipped cream. Yum yums! Lets go and have some :D

The other sinful cakes served in Dome, from clockwise, Tiramisu, Marble Cheesecake, Chocolate Brownie with Vanilla Ice Cream and Chocolate Mousse Cake.


Dome Cafe outlets in Malaysia are located at The Gardens Mall, Suria KLCC, Bintang Circle Pavilion, Pavilion KL, Bangsar Shopping Centre, IKANO Power Centre, The Curve, Subang Parade, Geleneagles Intan Medical Centre, and KLIA; Island Plaza, Gurney Plaza and Queensbay Mall in Penang; 1Borneo Hypermall in Sabah.

And do join Dome's Facebook Page for more updates, more than 3000 people couldn't be wrong!

Stay Tuned for those Dome Food Vouchers!

MIGF 2010 Grand Finale

Last Saturday I was invited to Malaysia International Gourmet Festival '10 Grand Finale! The verdict? AWESOME!  As you know, I was excited even before the event. I saw too many things of which I can't exactly share all of but I'll let you in on my experience, Dear Readers. Just some highlights mainly of the food since this is a food blog :) 
More pictures will be on my Facebook page. 

Migf '10, I'm finally here to attend you! :) Ten years of Malaysia's finest, and here I am (:

YAM Tunku Dato’ Seri Utama Naquiyuddin ibni Tuanku Ja’afar, YB Dato’ Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen, Dato’ Steve Day(not in the picture) and many other VIPS enjoying the show as much as the visitors.

The really great and big fireworks presentation to Celebrate 10 Magical Years

The first drink we were serve after walking the red carpet. I felt as if I was already on the beach even before I hit the beach.

The great display of our own tropical fruits which were not just for display. Anybody could just take a piece and eat :)

And I know you can't see it, but the "10" thingy in the middle is a watermelon with

"MIGF 10 Years" carved into it.

The perfectly cooked Char Kway Teow with intense flavour and wok hei(wok's breath). There wasnt pork fat or lard used and the flavour was still really great! Halal Char kway teow made to perfection! Yum yum!

The chef frying the Char Kway Teow was smiling all the way, I guess thats the special ingredient?

Satay! The que was so long for this as there were many expatriates queing for it. Peanut sauce, seasoning and marination was cooked Malaysian style except for the meat.
It was abit too tough and not fatty enough.

As any satay lover knows, all satay must have an adequate amount of fats, so the meat is still juicy and does not taste too tough even after being grilled. 

I would have loved it if they were to use chicken tight and stuff some fats in it because the texture was dry and really chewy.

Is there a difference between Malay style chicken rice and Chinese style chicken rice? What do u think? Well for this, there was a blend of both! Chicken was cooked the Malay style and the rice cook the chinese style? Maybe it was a separate chef who cooked the chicken and the rice. heh. Overall it was delish even thou it was a mix and match between the style used :)

The Ipoh Hor Fun(behind) and Asam Laksa

Asam Laksa tasted really weird. It wasn't sweet and sour enough, taste more like chicken stock with some extra seasoning. More over, it wasnt spicy enough. Maybe they were afraid the expatriates would not be able to adapt to the spicyness of the dish.

Ipoh Hor Fun tasted great. Not as good as the Ipoh ones but its really an impressive replicate.

Roti-not-so-Jala. Seriously! if you get what i mean. . .

Fried Oyster.

This is one of my favourite local chinese dish which not many could cook a good portion of this dish as it involves ingredients like starch, egg and oysters. Cooking it too long or short may result in a dramatic and totally different final product. This one at MIGF was really starchy which makes the lack of egg taste and oyster which certainly could not blend in.

Had high hopes for this, but sadly it tasted like a ball of starch.

Roti John! I wonder if the inventors name is John! :D

Fried Radish Cake. I wasn't able to try this as the que was too long and when it wasn't, I was already stuffed with the rest of the food.

Kuih Muih

Local desserts for all :)

 A big round of applause to the organizers, tourism ministers and participants(from every exec chef to all the dishwashers)You make the standards of our local and fine dining food a completely new journey for every Malaysian and tourists.Its now time to look forward to Fabulous Food 1Malaysia :)
Winners of this year MIGF? Details of the winner is at MIGF main website.More photos of celebration is at my Facebook page.

Malaysia - Truly Asia!