This dish serves as a delightful breakfast for the locals here in Singapore. Food stalls selling it can be found everywhere in Singapore’s hawker centers and markets. Often, they offer 2 types of noodles to customers: fried bee hoon and fried Hokkien yellow noodles. Sides would range from luncheon meat, sunny-side-up, hot dog & fish cake, just to name a few.
This is a type of chilli oil that’s commonly found in Chinese restaurants, as a condiment for Chinese and/or Cantonese dishes like dim sum, noodles, pork dumplings etc. They are typically marked by the tremendous amount of oil in which the chilli flakes are soaked. My first version here includes part dried and part fresh chilli. I’m already planning to make a 2nd version which uses even more dried chilli to see if it makes for an even more authentic Cantonese chilli oil recipe. 😉
It’s a very simple dish to prepare and cook, especially since the pickled black olive vegetables could be easily purchased off the shelves of supermarket. The best part about using these bottled pickled vegetables is the oil contained within. Using this oil to fry the ingredients is the key to churning out a good old pot of fragrant Chinese olive fried rice.
My first taste of wine jelly was amazing; almost heavenly. Wine jelly is made of gelatin, sugar and wine, the last of which is the ingredient that renders its taste so special and memorable. Apparently, this is a type of spread popular among those in the West – a spread served with either crackers and cheese or with berries and whipped cream.
I spent over a year to finish all the tutorials in this book. I’m impressed by the organisation and content presented throughout the book – easy-to-digest information, bite-sized tutorials, differentiated themes as well as detailed characterisation of the different genres presented to us in our daily lives. All of these were useful in getting us to become not just familiar with, but also sensitive towards all these different aspects, so as to create relevant and applicable designs that serve their purposes. The last chapter of the book effectively sums up all the short-cuts and application tips that could be used in the software, many of which are new and exciting tricks even for myself.
Here are a few of my favourite self-creations from a handful of tutorials in the book:
1) Line Art
This style employs a photo as its starting point to create a stylised caricature featuring black outlines that trace the basic features and then applying a basic palette of colours to replace the original ones in the photo.
