guilty pleasures

Random fact: I am happiest around family, friends, food and music. :)

i have been spending the last 40 minutes looking at recipes online and listening to random music while i wait for my clothes to be done. i never knew there were SO many malaysian food recipes online. my favourite so far has definitely got to be rasamalaysia.com. there're so many freaking recipes and they all look so good. if i could, i'd try out every single recipe. but then again, exams are coming and i should be studying. the worst part of it all though is that it's almost impossible to find some of the ingredients here. lemongrass, rice wine, korean chilli paste, sweet potatoes, wanton skin. i'm going crazy. AND i don't have an oven. :( i'm getting one soon hopefully. *fingers crossed* :) then i can flex my baking muscles eventhough i probably don't have any which is really weird coz most of my aunts and my mum all have awesome cooking/baking skills. maybe i'm just underdeveloped. :) now that's a thought. great! haha.

one thing i found rather odd and which pleasantly surprised me was the fact that on rasamalaysia there were so many comments from foreigners, westerners enjoying original Asian cuisine and actually attempting to try them out for themselves. i find that so awesome really because eventhough i am probably one of those people who are pretty influenced by "budaya kuning", i love it when Asian culture is in the spotlight so to speak. I'm probably a bit more pro-Asian than usual right now because i just watched IpMan 2 yesterday which was SO FREAKING GOOD! heh. hmm.. i think i'll start compiling a list as to why being asian is cool then post it up! :) so anyway, i'll probably attempt onde-onde this weekend if all goes well and i manage to steal some pandan leaves from some AWESOME friends. hint at MissMarvell. ;) but i doubt it'll taste as good as the ones back home considering i probably won't be able to find ANY sweet potatoes here. maybe i should start growing some on my own. interesting.. hmm... heh. ok. i think clothes are done. another food rant some other time. bye! :)