The Making of 菜糕

One day, BlurBlurBear and Monkey went shopping. Suddenly, Monkey jumping joyfully pointing at a box of turnip (sengkuang) dumpling mix. So, both of them return to BlurBlurLand happily with the box of turnip dumping mix, a small turnip, some carrots, and some dried shrimps.

With PoohBear's help, BlurBlurBear and Monkey cut all the ingredients into small pieces. They stir fry the dumpling fillings together with garlic, sesame oil, and soy sauce. The dumpling filling smells really good! (drooling...)

BlurBlurBear decided to prepare the dumpling dough while letting the fillings cool down. The instructions behind the box says pour hot water in the mix. BlurBlurBear wonder if warm water is consider as hot water and started pouring warm water into the flour mix. The mix turn into white milky liquid instead of sticky dough.

After a waiting for a while, the mix is still in liquid form. PoohBear and Monkey looked and BlurBlurBear doubtfully and decided to heat up the milky liquid. The moral of the story is: when the instruction says HOT water don't put warm water.

The dough is finally ready. So three of started making dumplings. This is their first time making turnip dumplings. The dumplings all have unique shape and size.

The dumplings are not ready to eat yet. PoohBear put the dumplings in a big steam pot to cook the dumplings. Tic tac... ti tac... 5 minutes past, the dumpling skin starts turning translucent. Another five minutes past, the dumplings are finally ready.

This is the last one BlurBlurBear made. There's only a little dough left, so BlurBlurBear made a mini dumpling. The dumplings might not look perfect, but it smells really great (grooling... can we start eating NOW?)

Yummy!!! It taste great. Overall, not bad for beginners.