新加坡薑蔥蟹炒米粉

[1] 阿蘇示範炒這種米粉時，用了很多蔥、中芹和薑片。
[2] 蟹方面，則用上兩隻膏蟹，一隻肉蟹。








[3] 將蟹膏刮出來之後，要加一點胡椒粉，再拌勻。
[4] 米粉要汆水，煮好令米粉到炒時有吸汁能力。








[5] 當蟹洗好後，要把蟹件抺至完全乾透、沾上少許豆粉，當做醬汁時，蟹可以吸收味道。
[6] 用一個小鍋子將蟹件泡油，但不要太熟。








[7] 炒香薑片(分開放下去)至透明色。
[8] 再放下洋蔥炒幾下，從鑊邊加一點油。開始炒香蔥和中芹至有焦香的氣味，才放下蟹件去炒，灑酒，加雞湯，落一點鹽，一點糖，再加一點雞湯，然後等它煮開，把蟹件夾起來。








[9] 倒起一些醬汁，留待稍後炒蟹用。
[10] 放下米粉於醬汁中，炒至變乾身(火一定要夠猛)。








[11] 再用另外一隻鑊去炒一些蔥和中芹，放下蟹件，灑酒，加一點生粉水和蠔油去煮香蟹件。
[12] 將煮好的米粉放在碟上，再舖上剛煮香的蟹件便完成了。








若看阿蘇的竅門，請看最後一幅相便可。

Chasing Ducks

Date: September 26th, 2009
Time: 3 p.m.
Place: Stanley Park










On the grassland neighbouring the totem poles, Abby saw a number of fat ducks. She was so excited seeing these short animals that she chased them from behind. The ducks spread out and fled when they learned that a little girl was yelling and running towards them.

Although the legs of the ducks are thinner than those of Abby, they sped away very quickly. Abby was sad to find that she could not approach any duck at all. Finally she dropped the idea of chasing and reported to us.

Seaplanes at Downtown Vancouver

Passengers can board seaplanes at the Float plane Terminal near Harbour Green Park, a little distance to the west of Canada Place at Downtown Vancouver. These planes are carrying passengers to and from Vancouver Island.

It was Saturday when we went to Stanley Park which meant that the demand for flights shot up sharply. Loud throbbing sounds of noisy engines could be heard almost every fifteen minutes at Stanley Park. Obviously, these planes used the peaceful water to the west of Canada Place to fly up to the sky.

The flight, if I estimate, will be around half an hour or so from Downtown Vancouver to Victoria. If one drives from Downtown southward to the B.C Ferries terminal at Tsawwassen, it will take about 45 minutes and a ferry-trip of 90 minutes, excluding the waiting time at the pier. After landing at Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal, it takes about 30 to 45 minutes to drive to Victoria. In this manner, it can take up to 3 - 4 hours for a car-ferry-car trip.

I had seen seaplanes landing on the waters of the inner harbour of Victoria when I was dining at a restaurant at its waterfront. When I heard it fly overhead, it was too late for me to go outside to take snapshots of the landing plane.

另兩次烹飪對壘

新一輪 So Good 烹飪比賽由三位女士對壘，煮的菜色是：咸魚粒炒芽菜。
賽員是2號小瓊、11號Mimosa和17號阿如。
三位賽員各施各法，煮法不一樣。

[1] 小瓊煮出來的芽菜太咸，因為她炒咸魚也加鹽，正是咸上加咸。
[2] 阿如的芽菜失色的地方是沒有青蔥的襯托和味道，註定失敗了。
[3] Mimosa煮的芽菜比較好，賣相及味道俱佳，贏得阿蘇讚賞，自然勝出了。

另一組的三位比賽的賽員有兩女一男。菜色是：蛋炒飯。

賽員有3號珍姐、7號文姐及16號文仔。


[1] 珍姐將飯、蛋及蔥同時間全部倒入鑊中一起炒，阿蘇認為不正確。
[2] 文仔倒入了大量的油，於是炒出來的是油浸炒飯，阿蘇笑言叫文仔將全碟飯吃下去。
[3] 文姐將配料分開處理，先爆香了蔥、繼而炒蛋，然後才一併炒飯，炒出來的飯自然最香啦，都是文姐煮得最好！

Closing-down of a hotel, shopping centre, department store ...

Renaissance Kowloon Hotel Hong Kong (香港九龍萬麗酒店) will be closed down today, March 1st, 2010 because the New World Centre (新世界中心) is going to be pulled down and rebuilt. Usual customers of the shops at the shopping centre and those of the hotel rushed to these places in recent days to shop and buy, lunch, dine and take photos to record some of their memories.

Miss Ng and I were invited by our old student, Jenny Sy and her husband, Kenneth to a dim-sum lunch at the Chinese restaurant in the hotel. The reason was simple. The happy couple married and had wedding banquet inside this hotel. They would like to get back and share with us some of the happy memories at their wedding. Although the lunch on that day was quite expensive, it could provide a precious gathering of two teachers, a student and her husband. We took some photos at the restaurant and I myself took the photos of two classic motor-cars in display in New World Centre.

After 18 years of service, Jusco Department Store at Lok Fu (吉之島樂富店) is closed down today. Probably it is due to the high-rise of rent by the Link. It says that Jusco will open a new store at Mega Box in East Kowloon in the middle of this year.

I used to go to this department store when my family lived in Kowloon Tong a long time ago. The prices of articles of this store were reasonable. We often visited its supermarket and had meals at its food court. The residents at Lok Fu and nearby regions such as Kowloon Tong would miss such a famous department store from now on.

Another sad sight came to me today. I discovered that the biggest 7-eleven shop at City One had been closed. I often bought newspapers from this store and with its closing down, I have to buy newspapers from other stores in the neighbourhood instead.

新見的巴士廣告

有時候，巴士車身上的廣告會帶給我一些驚喜。

像今次的例子：

一個小女孩的笑容首先吸引我的注意力，走近看，給我發現，原來這幅照片或圖畫大致上是由手指模造成的。

照這張相是我要與時間競賽──從褲袋找出相機，打開保護袋，按下開關制，調校畫面大小，按半下測距,最後按下快門制。幸運得很，攝影時這輛巴士還未開走，否則照回來的相可能是對面馬路的景象。



其實打手指模這樣東西，在早期申請及更換身份證時巳經發生了。 幾年前在申請美國旅遊証件時，也需要；入美國境時當然要；將來入日本境時相信也要。

喇叭型花

近幾日香港天氣回暖，又潮濕，一般植物都活躍起來， 葉子不斷地長花不斷地開。

這般喇叭型的黃花從欄內伸出欄外，希望吸引蜜蜂或其他昆蟲前往採蜜，兼且替其傳播花粉，得到傳宗接代的機會。

鮮艷的黃色花瓣， 花內裛橙色的間綫(給蜜蜂看的引綫)及像古典留聲機上的喇叭身段通通都帶給我很舒服的感覺，賞花也是人生一樂事！

Roadside Art Display

On our very first day at Victoria, British Columbia, after check-in at Fisher’s House, we went out for a walk in the neighbouring streets. Along the street where Fisher’s House lay were all residential houses. Turning into another street, we found shops like our Watson’s or Mannings' or supermarkets which sold all kinds of household goods, medicine, seasonings, stationery, food and fruit. The prices of things sold here were comparatively dearer than those in Vancouver.

On our way to the Parliament Buildings, we passed a café which provided free wireless internet service. Two men were sitting at a small table chatting outside the café. They each had a drinking cup on the table. One of them was dressed in black with a pair of stylish long boots and a green cap.

At the kerb of the pavement were fixed two artistic sculptures. They must have been welded together by different pieces of metals. The one on the right showed a long-haired lady riding a bicycle. This lady wore a beautiful hat and her long hair flew as the bicycle was running. Her stretching legs in her bell-bottomed trousers added much fun to the whole sculpture. It was more interesting to find that the lady was carrying some live flowers in a basket at the front of her bicycle. For the second sculpture, I was totally confused by the wires wrapped up by scrapes of metal. It looked as if it would form an electric lamp.

Looking around at Grouse Mountain

The light-brown Skyride Station at the mountain edge was quite tall. It was nothing grand because it was made of wood. There was a corridor linking the station to the dark-brown Lodge where we had dinner in its restaurant.

There was also a souvenir shop, a bar, a cinema in which films (documentary only) are shown at different times of the day.











Out of the Lodge, we saw the open ground covered by snow. Not far away, in front of us, was a square piece of open ground for activities or assembly. On the far side was Santa’s Workshop.

I spotted a red truck moving by belts like those of tanks. I guessed it was for carrying heavy things from one spot to another.










There were racks for storing snow boards in front of the Lodge. Quite a number of young people, carrying snow boards, were ready for skiing on the tracks at the upper part of this mountain.

煎太陽蛋

阿蘇節目當中，第三組烹飪賽賽員是兩女一男，是以煎太陽蛋作比賽。








在首輪煎蛋中，三位賽員煎下來的蛋不合格，不符合阿蘇的要求，皆因火不夠猛，蛋邊不燶及不脆。於是阿蘇親自示範之後，三位賽員再煎多一次分高下。最後由8號Shirley勝出，因她煎出來的蛋比較美觀。








其實根據阿蘇的竅門，煎太陽蛋時要猛火燒滾食油，徒手打蛋，在稍接近油面放蛋，見蛋邊有些少燶便大功告成了。

泰式炒通菜

阿蘇在新一輯烹飪節目第二集一開始就去泰國食品店買餸材料:
主角為泰國蕹菜，配角是泰國鮮蒜頭。








今次阿蘇所煮的是泰式炒通菜
[1]將通菜洗淨，用手將它們弄斷至一段段，放在筲箕裏。








[2]倒一些蝦抽，再加一些指天椒，普寧豆醬及蠔油在菜上面。








[3]用猛火煮滾油後，下鮮蒜頭，爆香，然後將先前混合了調味料的通菜全部掉下鑊裏面炒幾下。








阿蘇今次煮的竅門是: 1. 油要好滾 2. 豆醬和蠔油放在未炒的通菜上 3. 炒兩下便可。