08/10/09

Today I learnt the consequences of eating too many Pringles. I have a major sore throat today. Anyway today we’re celebrating Winyi’s birthday one day early because tomorrow she has to go to university. In the morning, I woke up at 8:30, brushed my teeth, washed my face, dressed and then left home at 9:10ish to take a taxi to this place to eat brunch. When you say the place’s name in canto it kinda sounds like ‘shoon-joon-chan-teng’ .. I have no idea how to write it in Chinese sorry :( Well in direct translation it means spinning restaurant and that’s really what it is. It’s in a refurnished old building and occupies the entire 16^th floor (the highest floor), and used to be part of the tallest building in Guangzhou … except what with modern technology it’s relatively short now. It spins really slowly and completes a 360°turn in around 2 hours. It’s slightly random because the whole point of the restaurant is to ‘observe the view’ … but the view isn’t really that good. There’s a murky river … and buildings and more buildings. BUT at Australia’s centre point tower you see CLEAN water and the OPERA HOUSE and the HARBOUR BRIDGE and the view is simply so much better. But it was fun watching yourself spin :) The food wasn’t the best I’ve eaten but still nice.

After eating, grandma and grandpa left for home while aunty, uncle, mum, Jason, Winyi and I went shopping. We hadn’t bought too much when it was time to head to MJ Cook … which is an awesome place and I recommend you guys to go and try out. We took a bus there and while our parents shopped, we made our cousin’s birthday cake. We let her watch and tell us what she wanted her cake to look like. She took quite a few photos – basically one photo each step.

1. We beat two eggs into the tin which had a bit of white powder in it already. (it wasn’t flour)

2. Then, Jason and I whisked the two tins (the other had something which looked like milk) until when tipped over, the contents wouldn’t spill.

3. The whisked tin with milk (supposedly) turned into cream!

4. Then we pour the whisked egg into a cake oven tin.

5. Outside the kitchen but still inside the shop, we sat for 30 minutes outside waiting for our cake to rise.

6. This is what our cake looked like when it came out of the oven.

7. The assistant sliced the top layer of the cake where it was cracked and then into quarters. He slabbed some cream onto two of the quarters and placed the other quarters on top, producing a mini version of the cake we were going to make. We had a taste test and boy, it was goooooood!

8. Then, he cut the remaining cake into half horizontally