Pandan Chiffon Cake

Chiffon cakes are my all time favorite. If it's not because of the sugar content, I can gobble down the whole cake in one day! I hardly buy chiffon cakes from the store, I just dislike the artificial coloring and the artificial flavoring. I like chiffon cakes that are rich in aroma, flavors and taste which means you gotta use all natural ingredients.

My pandan chiffon cake baking in the oven! The whole house is now filled with pandan smell. Awesome smell. Invert the pan immediately after the cake is done.

Here's the recipe that I copied from my all time favorite blogger - Wendyinkk.
Pandan Chiffon Cake

Ingredients:
A)
4 large egg yolks
75ml oil
115ml pandan leave juice (1/2 cup water blended with 1/2 cup cut up pandan leaves, strained)
25gm coconut milk powder
1/8 tsp salt
100 gm sugar
150 gm all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder

B)
4 egg whites
90gm sugar
1/8 tsp cream of tartar

Method:1. Preheat oven to 170C
2. Warm pandan juice and mix in coconut milk powder. Stir until coconut milk powder is dissolved.
3. Mix (1) with the rest of ingredients (A) until well combined.
4. Beat egg whites until foamy. Put in cream of tartar and beat until soft peaks.
5. Add in sugar and beat until stiff.
6. Fold 1/4 of egg whites into (A) and combine well.
7. Repeat step 6.
8. Fold in the rest of egg whites and combine well.
9. Pour batter into a clean tube pan and shake pan lightly left and right to level cake.
10. Bake at 170C for 40 minutes.
11. Invert pan immediately after removing from oven.
12. Cut cake when totally cooled.

Winter at Haeundae Beach, Busan

This was actually our first experience with winter at the beach. Poor kids were so tempted to just sit down on the sandy beach and wanting to build sandcastles, but they just couldn't do it due to the cold weather. They were too bulky to sit down comfortably on the sand and play. Haha.

 

This is the beautiful harbor on the way to Haeundae beach. I can stay here forever.. with this cozy weather! In fact, the best time to visit Haeundae beach is during summer, in between Jun-Sept.

 Even though there's nothing much to do in winter, December.. but I just love the cold weather here. It wasn't so windy at this beach that will chill you down the bone, but the weather is just nice. We were there during early December and temperature was about 8-11degrees. I can go on walking without my winter jacket.

 

 My little boy was busy chasing after these seagulls. The only activity for him to do during winter at the beach.

This beach is so lovely. We will definitely come back again in the near future, I hope. =)

Kids Happiest Moment at Everland, Seoul

Amusement Park is definitely a must whenever you plan for a holiday with kids. Throughout the entire holiday, this day was the happiest day for our kids. They truly enjoyed to the max and the smile and laughter on their faces were priceless. Such a precious moment.

Everland is a must go if you're visiting Korea. I wish they do have Disneyland because the kids will enjoy it more since they know all the Disney's characters. Anyway, we're glad that we found Everland discounts tickets for foreigners, up to 31%. That was definitely a great news. After discount, it only cost us 33000won for adult and 27000won for child. Here's where we purchased the Everland discounted ticket (Cosmojin).

 

The day before our trip to Everland, we dropped by their office located inside President Hotel, walking distance from subway Euljiro1 to purchase the tickets.

 

Total ticket price after discount = 93000 won, equivalent to MYR340. We saved on 1 child ticket because little boy is still less than 3 years old. Sometimes it's always good to travel when your child is less than 2 years old. You do not have to pay for full flight price and most of the attraction parks are free for child less than 2yrs.

 The journey to Everland from our rented guesthouse at Seoul Station took us about 2.5 hours. We traveled via Subway and the only thing I knew was we kept getting up and down to change lines. At first, we wanted to board a bus from the Seoul station but we couldn't find where is the Exit10 as stated in the brochure. Ended up, we wasted 1 hour at the Seoul Station and finally decided to take the train instead.

 Finally, we arrived at Everland after 2.5 hours of changing train after trains. It was almost 2pm. The kids were already a little fussy and hungry and tired. After getting down from the Yongin Everline Subway, we walked to the opposite side of the road and took a free shuttle bus to Everland.

Yesss!! We were finally here! The feeling was like we took forever to reach this Everland and we were now here, at Everland. =/

 Everland is divided into five sections: American Adventure, Magic Land, European Adventure, Zoo Topia, and Global Fair. The first section that we went was ZooTopia. We do not want to miss out the fun Safari adventure whereby the kids can have a close view of the big bears, tigers, lions..

 Everland parade !

 

The brightly lit up Everland. Stunningly beautiful!

 How it feels being like a child again... 

 Night Parade.. So beautiful!

 Fantastic Fireworks for Christmas.

 We decided to take the train back to Seoul because the queue at the bus station was horrendous. Look at that happy face. The decision to the Everland was definitely a right one, even though the tickets cost us a bomb after conversion.