Happy New Year!!!

Just wanna shout out to the readers a Happy New Year although we are late by 6 days. It has been hectic for the past 2 months therefore the lack of updates. With the new year, alimento makes a new year’s resolution to eat as many interesting things as possible and write about it.

Chocolate soup, Edinburgh, Scotland

Chocolate soup is the last stop we visited on the morning we left Edinburgh. It is one of the most special cafe style shop that i’d ever visited. First of all, they really serve chocolate SOUP!!! it comes with all sort of different muffins and cookies. I gladly bought a chocolate muffin while Jiavern go for a banana toffee muffin. Each of them cost £2.50. at first i thought that they will gave a chocolaty tasted creamy drinks to resemble chocolate soup for us to dung the muffin or cookies. But it surprise us that they gave us true melted liquified chocolate. Its very rich in taste and was absolutely amazing.

Chloe bought a chocolate desert which called chocolate sandwich. It was consists of a layer of brownies, vanilla ice-cream and a piece of chocolate. thanks to the cold weather, the ice cream wasnt melted easily. Anyway, that was absolutely sinful to tastebud. Hope we can have one in Malaysia next time.

Moo Sandwich

This ice cream has been advertised on the television locally in Malaysia before and by luck I found it was on offer at Giant Hypermarket.

Arrrghh damn you nokia camera for the blurness

It is called the moo sandwich as the chocolate top and bottom layers are black and the ice creamy center is white therefore representing the color of a cow and a cow goes moo.

Once opening the wrapper, you have to eat it promptly because it tends to melt really fast. The engraving on the top is the Walls ice cream logo. It really reminds me of an oreo cookie but with a case of gigantism. The vanilla ice cream in the middle is really soft and smooth. The little piece of heaven is yummy.

Steamed Bread

I forgot to take the name of the kopitiam down for this dish. I’ll get it next week. My friends and I were eating breakfast after the Sunday mass nearby my church in Air Panas, Setapak. Way after finishing our main meals, we stayed there and chit chatted which made one of my friends order a couple of steamed bread.

I was expecting two pairs of sliced white bread without the crust slathered in butter and kaya but what we received was this :

Buns! They looked tasty like the kind that freshly baked. These buns were also slathered in thick butter and kaya spread. It costs RM 1.20 per bun. Too bad after tasting them it didnt end up tasting that good as it looks. The previous steam bread is better.

Celebrity chef

In UK, Chefs are treated as celebrities. In a sense that when they are walking on the street, the girls will screaming at them and ask for autograph sign; People would pay big pounds to eat in their luxury restaurants; and some of them even get the chance to sing in the celebrity X factor in front of Simon Cowell even though they are tone deaf.

the cough *tone deaf* cough chefs

This proves that Brits are definately food lovers, to an extent that they even worshipped the chef. One of the high profile chefs in UK is Gordon Ramsey. I am not quite his fan as he is one of the rudest man on earth. If you did watched his show ‘The F word’ then you will know what am i saying. the vulgarity is too exaggerate, in a sense that i’m not sure he is swearing because he was obliged to swear as that is what the show title implies, or he is expressing his emotion.

The F chef

Every week Ramsay gets new non-skilled chefs to create starters, mains and desserts for 50 customers, and they have to prove themselves as worthy chefs with 150 customers paying. Well, the chefs recruited came from all walks of life, Oxford cough *nerdy* cough students, mechanics, plumbers etc. Cant deny the fact that the chef has his own character, as well as his food. Some of the unique food he cooked includes the pigs which he fed with expensive alcohols (what the heck!!), the eel fish dish and etc. Well, Its enjoyable to see his show if you have high resistance towards vulgarity.

Compare to Ramsey, jamie Oliver’s show is a better choice for friday night show. He had transform from the naked chef to the serious canteen chef, took over responsibility for running the kitchen meals in Greenwich school for a year. He was cursed by the students , the collegues, he was depressed at some point but that was the starting point of his school dinner campaign. The response was so great that the UK Government pledged to spend £280m on healthy school dinners. However, his also receives a great deal of critism when he killed a lamb live in the ‘Jamie great escepe’ series.

The winner of “Most Inspiring Political Figure of 2005″ in the Channel 4 Political Awards 2006.

Chefs in UK not only sing, swear like uncivilized, also active in political moves. no wonder they are so much famous than our own malaysian cough *not so* cough favourite-chef Wan.

Celebrity chef???? i’m not so sure.