Ice Cream Making Session @ Tom's Palette

After many postpones due to our commitments to work, we finally made it for the long anticipated ice cream session at Tom's Palette on 15 Aug!

The lesson costs $50 per person. Lasted around 2 hours, pretty interesting we would say. The lesson teaches you how to make ice-cream (a cup volume) from home.

In the first hour we learnt to make green tea and horlick flavours ice creams. The next hour was more or less spent on tasting different ice cream flavours, learning the different ice cream types - french ice cream, gelato, sorbet etc, and how flavours make it into the ice cream.

Some interesting take aways, there are a few things which can make a ice cream texture smooth, with any one absent, it has to be made up via other ways -

1. Fat/ buttery

2. Air

3. Sugar

Sorbet itself is very smooth while it taste just 'sweet' it is actually very high in sugar content. Because it is tasted very cold, the extreme sweetness is not felt. Gelato while having milk absent from its content is also very sweet due to high sugar content. So the point here is, as long as your ice cream taste good it is SINFUL!

Another interesting thing to point is that, ice cream extracts flavours from the ingredients via milk. Hence if you would like to create 'fried onion' flavour, you can, by 'extracting' the flavour out of the fried onion by dipping it into the milk for the ice cream making - imagine how sinful it sounds, all the oil!! (Oops..) Still a flavour innovative enough to deserve a try! :)

Summing up, it is still a fresh experience. Worth your $50 bucks we would say! (Oh by the way, we were given 2 ice cream vouchers each at the end of the lesson.. :) )

Shirley and me working hard making our first ice creams!

The number of cups you see there are the number of flavours (half that please.. since its 2 of us) we got to taste.

Dains Festival @ Esplanade

Dains festival is held in Esplanade, over different locations. From our observation, there seems to be many works from Asian choreographers. Later, we found that this is a support through the Artist Residency programme. Most of this performances are ticketed.

For passer-bys like us, performances in the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre is ideal. The scenery from the theatre is beautiful. It is right in front of the waterfront along Marina Bay. We enjoyed a maervelous performance by an Indonesian group under the starlit sky.

The dance group is Surakarta Panji Group. As shown in the banner below, the performance is called Wayang Topeng (also known as Wayang Wong). It is a tradition dance, using masks to differentiate the different characters in the performance.

For free and entertaining performances, check out the esplanade websites when you have time. It's a great alternative to hitting the cinemas like all other "made-in-singapore" couch potatoes.

Our Archery Trial Session

We have uploaded the pictures ages ago. I can't remember when we did this. Both of us have been too busy to update our blog.

On a very boring weekend, we happened to pass by this new archery shop in suntec city. It is in tower4, just opposite the row where the cinema and arcade is located. So we decided to give it a shot. Mark is just too shy to be in the picture. So here you only see my first attempt at archery:

It's a pretty cool activity. I feel like Zena or something. Hahahaha :P
The shop assistant is very helpful. He showed us the posture and guided us through our first few shots. There are several shooting packages avaliable: $5 for 12 shots, $9 for 24 shots etc. We went for the 5 bucks one since it's out first attempt.

Well, as beginners, we took some time to do manual zeroing. I think both of us managed to hit bull's eye 3 or 4 times after our first few shots. Mark was really thrilled. Ladies, not to worry. They have a female bow. it's super light. No struggle for me at all.

Probably a gd way to destress. Just imagine your enemy at the bull's eye! I wouldn't mind giving it a try again!

Address:
DM Archery
#03-040
Suntec City Mall
Entertainment Zone
Telephone Number : 97964754
Opening hours : 10am – 9pm