Mini Yau Char Kwai’s
I have always loved Yau Char Kwai's. Well, I guess I just love anything DEEP FRIED! Westerners refer to it as Chinese doughnuts. Usually goes great with porridge and black coffee.
Yau Char Kwai a.k.a. Yau Tiu a.k.a. Chinese doughnut made by wifey.
You can usually find it at some select Chinese restaurants and places like T&T Supermarket. Problem with some of these places, like T&T especially, is that they are usually pre-fried in large volumes, so God knows how long those doughnuts have been sitting there! Which also means they end up being soft and soggy. Not cool! In short, if it ain't crispy/crunchy, it's been sitting around too long! The best time to get them are of course if you see the cook bringing 'em up straight from the fryer. I have also had better luck with the medium-sized yau char kwai's, so you may wanna try those instead... if you can get them. 
Szechuan Hot Pot
Ahhhh... spicy hot pot mania! Lamb, beef, tripe, artificial crab meat, enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, pork balls, fish balls, octopus balls, cuttlefish+calamari balls... man, that's a helluva lotta BALLS! Spicy as the soup is, the real killer still lies in the condiments. Wifey chopped up some Thai chili and raw garlic, and mixed 'em up for dipping into. Spicy and pungent. YUM! I was sweating buckets by the end of the meal!
A feast fit for a... spicy couple.
Yummy soup... and equally yummy fingers... yummm!
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Wifey writes: What?? Not by the end of the meal but within the first few minutes, Hubby was already sweating buckets!!
VirtualDubMod – Cannot Append Segment Solution
Just recently acquired a few VHS tapes from my Sifu on Lion Dances and Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu performances which I had offered to help transfer to DVD. Still have me good ol' Pinnacle Studio DC10+ Capture Card after all these years. Fired up Pinnacle Studio 8.1, captured at 640x480, outputted them using the Ligos Indeo XP Video 5.2 Codec to a 1/2 D1 352x480 AVI video, attempted to join some of the videos together via VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2, and VOILA... I get the following attitude:
Cannot append segment blah blah blah: The segment has a different set of streams.
After various experimentations, and researching on the Internet, I am pleased to say that I have come up with a tried-and-tested solution. Here are the following steps, and let's call the two videos "Video X" and "Video Y". I know, some of you guys are thinking "Hey, why not 'Video A' and 'Video B', or 'Video 1' and 'Video 2'?" Well, because I am in an X and Y mood, so as far as I am concerned, it's Video X and Video Y. Thank you very much.
1. Fire up VirtualDubMod.
2. In the menu bar, click File, click Open video file, look for Video X and press the Open button.
3. In the menu bar, click Video, and make sure Direct Stream Copy is selected.
4. In the menu bar again, click Streams followed by Stream List. Right-click on the video entitled "Source: Input AVI file", and make sure Direct Stream Copy is selected too.
5. In the menu bar yet again, click Video, then Frame Rate, and select No change.
6. Then click File followed by Save As, assign your desired video output a name, and then click the Save button.
7. Repeat for Video Y.
7. Once both videos have been processed, they should join fine (as long as BOTH share the same frame rate!).
Pineapple Rolls Pix
OK OK, it's up! Took like forever didn't it, dear? 
Mmm... yummy!
Wifey's Pineapple Rolls
Yummy Pineapple Rolls, Juicy Chicken Wings and all that jazz…
Yummy... wifey made some pineapple rolls today. Each one exquisitely and meticulously crafted. Not one piece is the same. In fact, I have been so taken in with each piece I started giving them funky names depending on my mood - energy rolls, happy rolls, lucky rolls, sexy rolls, blah blah blah. Wifey thinks I am being ridiculous. Bah! Well, methinks better "ridiculous" than just referring to them by their OBVIOUS name - pineapple roll. *sigh* Aren't you suppose to enjoy your food?!?!?!
See that juicy image on the box? I can swear the wings, once we had 'em roasted in the oven, looked almost exactly like that!
And no, I have yet to forget about them tasty, delicious, *JUICY* BBQ Chicken Wings 2 days back! Two 700g boxes on promotional offer from Save-On sometime back. Olymel, oh Olymel... where hast thou been all these years?!?!?! Wifey put them in the conventional oven and had 'em roasted, and boy did they come out juicy and tasty. Yummm... (Sorry P90X, I couldn't resist!). We have tried chicken wings from Western Family and Schneiders over the years, and let me tell ya... NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! Looks like we have a pretty serious contender out there, so look out Western Family and Schneiders. You have been warned!
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Wifey writes:
Where's the picture of the rolls you took??? Did you eat it up as well??!!
Leading the Fight
"Anyone can lead the fight the day after it's done. It's leading the fight DURING the fight that's marking yer worth." - Bruenor Battlehammer (pg. 761 - The Hunter's Blades Trilogy)
Depth, NOT Length
"It is not how much you know but how well you have mastered what you've learnt. When making an assessment of one's martial arts training one should measure the depth rather than the length".
- Master Dave Lacey of Buk Sing Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu
Installed WordPress (finally!) and tinkered around with MySQL database
Glad to have our blog up and running after much procrastination. Wifey is very happy (I think!). Not sure about theme yet, but I guess the current one should suffice... until I get bored of it, or wifey decides to persuade me via punches and kicks to change it.
