
OMG? RAINdeerr or MADdeer?
I don't know whats wrong with me these few days. Im getting ompatient at stuff. Everything i want FAST FAST FAST. and i dont want to make any decisions. I am usually a decision maker, very straight foward and chop chop. but these few days i find myself having great difficulty making decisions. Time seems to pass very slowly and in a very boring way. All the food is yucks, taste so horrible. And one more new factor i don't know why am I feeling this way and omg i just cat believe im actually JELOUS over alot of things. I shouldnt be feeling this way, i think will get it off soon. so plz dun take out your gold bar and diamond chain and make me jelous ar, haha joking lar..........
I miss those working in hot kitchen days, everything is damn fast, very quickly its the end of the day. I cant stand school days now la, still got some maths thingy, i hate counting can??? And pastry omg, walking around the kitchen with that bloody weighing scale, everything also must measure, so trouble some. ARGH PIAK!!! 4gramms of salt la!!!! weigh for what la?? During IS i also got problem la, being assistant class rep, i must write the che, hygiene and store thing, then the class rep never give me the schedule. then if i write any names on the board ppl will start to complain why they do so many times, shut up la!! not my fault, wtf u wan me to do.
Today finish sch at 1230, went to Canele with mad gang to eat. I was feeling unhappy and annoyed for no reason, dunno why. SORRY MAD GANG, NO OFFENCE, MY TEMPER BAD RECENTLY, DUNO Y! The food there all horrible to me expecially the crab pasta that the girls order, well.... u never try u will never know. bUt altough all the food sucks 1 thing sort of impress me, its the crepe not very bad la, if out of 10 i give it a 6.

Mushroom Soup. Tasteless 3.5/10 $8.5

Croque Madame sandwhich 5/10 Can can, but wont eat again. $13.5
From Left: Yong Cheng, Me(Louis), LYdia, Cynthia
The picture above displays the holy members of the MAD GANG! This group of people are just loveable can. How boring will my life be without them??? All of them got very special characteristics la, 1 got a very unusual way of thinking, 1 very geen na, 1 is totally mad/reactive and 1 very 色 and think crooked easily. Which is which mix and match. They only got 1 similar characteristic, MAD la! What else!?!?!?!?! There will be further elaboration below, so don't worry.
yOnG cH3nG: a.k.a orh jiao (Black bird), he is just so burnt can??? haha. He has a high blur blur level and its rather extreme. Very nice to talk to him, always get damn interesting and eye opening answers. And he is so so so nice la, as long he is around got free tissue, beautex brand 3ply, very good quality ar! And he is a temperature boy, very sensetive to heat, sweat easily.
My Wish: My wish for him is that, I hope 1 day he will know how to make decisions firmly, and cut the blurness. Most of all be sucessful in the pastry industry.
ME: a.k.a 色 pei pei. Its hard for me to describe myself. But briefly, out of the 4 of them my mouth is the smallest, but my voice is screeching loud. And when the 2 very pretty ladies up there tickles me i will just explode, into...... bla, wadever. And my famous line to them is "WHATS DONE IS DONE"
LyD1A: This "crunchy bye" here, is so so so unique in a way la. She loves to tickle me and make me scream like shit. I think she is the only person that appreciates my food the most, coz she display almost all of my dishes in her blog. Err oh ya, this blog design all, she help me do one, coz my computer skills just suck la. She has a very nice mummy, cannot call "auntie" de wor, so i call her MADAME. I like going to lydia's house at simei and do a small makan session, its just so enjoyable la coz there also got a damn nice swim pool + steam bath. SONg ar!
My wish: My wish for lydia is to own lots of pink stuff from around the world coz i believe that pink stuff makes her damn happy. and 4ever ever i will miss that pony tail.
cYnThI@: Both cynthia and I are BOL professionals. BOL = Burst Out Loud. and we own BOL Pte Ltd. Our motto is: WE SMALL POTATOES, LET THE PROFESSIONALS DO THE JOB. Cynthia is my assistant during functions, shes not bad in picking up cutting skills, and most importantly quite fast. When u put both of us together, we will be very reactive and burst easily, even at the slightest things. Btw she believes that MAC fries come slowly as they are freshly cut, and please mention that to her when eating MAC with her.
My wish: My wish for cynthia is to cut down the bursting as it will affect her image badly, especially in kitchens. And i hope that one day she will wear a skirt during mad gang outing.

The 1st MAD GANG photograph
Every Thurs is coulour day for the mad gang, coz we dont have to wear uniform to sch so this pic is all black day, in french NOIR day haha. Next will be Pink and black day.
My birthday present From mad gang.
Went to sia huat on monday with mad gang, so actually i wana buy this mandoline for myself then they say they buy for me as my belated bday present. Well they insisted, so yea! Thanx mad gang! I will use it to make somthing for u all to eat.
MADMADMADMADMADMADMADMADMADMAD
When it comes to eating, I am very picky and choosy, and sometime it dosent mean that restaurant food is better than hawkers and coffee shops. There are 3 claypot dishes that simply impress me and all of them are from different places. The flavour of the dishes are just so touching. Next time I wana make my customers feel like that, just cook with love i guess...
1st In Place

Beef Bulogi Set: I have eaten this so many many times. It just keep making me go back. This is a korean beef soup, if u dont take beef there is pork or chicken. Its very nice, the soup somehow has a natural sweetness that just melts in your mouth, giving a very special sensation. I cant think of any other words to further describe this its just so nice. I the 1st time i tried it, I just smiled my way home. This can be found at tampines mall foodcourt the korean cuisine stall. Its abit expensive $7.80, but omg omg, just trust me its just so nice. And there will be a generous chunk of beef in it.
2nd In Place
Claypot Noodles: This amazing dish............... also dont know how to describe. But in simple words, the sauce is so nice, it has a very strong hua diao flavour, with alot of ingredients inside like seafood mushroom, meat, veg and most importantly lots and lots of crispy lard that makes ur mouth damn oily. haha. Oh yea when the dish is served to u quickly stir the egg thoroughly through out before it gets cooked, coz if cooked then not nice liao. This claypot mee can be found at a coffeeshop at Tampines blk 478, only can be eaten at night coz its the seafood stall that sells it.
3rd In Place
Sesame Chicken: The chicken is so tender until its not like chicken, i think the texture is similar to frog meat. The sauce is rather salty, but its is served with white rice, so the the sauce and rice complements each other making it just perfect + the sweetness of the onions........ oh my gosh. MUST TRY okay! This dish can be found at a bukit batok KOPITIAM nearest to shatec.
Well this work expirience really upgrade me alot can???? I compare the food i cook now and last time and now is 1 sky one ground haha. 一个天一个地.
I only got 1 last thing to say about picotin before i post some picotin food pics. If u notice all the staff there go nick names so of course i have also, mine is SOTONG. There are alot of sotongs in the world but of cos CHEF sotong is unique here in a way of his own. Picotin just opened so we havent started out laundry service, so at the end of the day, we have to boil our dirty cloths in bleach solution. So i was looking for somthing to stir the huge pot, i did not want to use the tongs as i thought that it was usnsuitable to stir cloths when it was used to handle food. I went to the garbage and took a long FLOUROCENT LAMP and started stirring, then all the chef start laughing and scodling me(joking way), then i threw the lamp away, i still can find anything to stir so i foolishly take a TREE BRANCH and started stirring. Every one just burst la. Then got I sous chef his name is sunny, he said this one sotong for sure! SOTONG is his name. So for the 7 months i spent in there all the ppl just call me sotong, so ppl until the day i leave ulso duno my name la LOL!!!!

Carbonara

Vongole LInguinie

Prawn Linguinie

Tuna on Nicoise Salad

Lamb Tagune With CousCous

LambChops with mint sauce, pea flan and Gratin Dalphinos

Lagsane

Beef Cheek stew with mashed potato
Entrecote, Grilled tomato, pea flan

Duck Confit, Mixed Salad, Layonnaise Potato
Steak Tatare with home made chips
Im now going to continue talking about life in picotin......... starting with those people that i dont have any photographs of
Jenny Chef de Partie (Starter), this malaysian lady here joined the restaurant about 1 week after me if im not wrong. She is my function dictionary la, everytime i plan a function at home i will call her to get some ideas on what sort of food to prepare, she is real good with soups and appitizers. I really appreciate her help alot. There was once i worked breakfast shif with her, 2 person only, we had a damn good chat in the kitchen la. Went out with her recently to queensway ikea, had tea together. Plan to go buffet with her soon, if possible. Maybe we going to learn Japanese together, need to arrange time.
Aidil Chef de Partie (Pasta), i worked with him for only abot 3 months. He was the last pasta section head before i left. I think he is quite xiao qi at moments, but after all he is not bad. and chefs always get pissed easily. Hmm i gave him my locker when i left coz he so ke lian his locker on the floor so he had to kneel down to take his stuff.

Me!!
TH3 Woooooooooo Gang!!!!!!!!!

Me & CousCOUS

NEW ORDER. Fire N0W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MISE EN PLACE! rEADY FOR A bUSY sUNDAY DINNER SERVICE
COUScous holding a bowl of cousCOUS! OMG
Part 3 coming up....................
16 December 2007, Chef drove me to his new restaurant Picotin, it was a totally new restaurant. Chef said that the food at picotin is more suitable for me as it is not as complicated as saint pierre. I was allocated to the pasta, veg and starch section. There i made alot of friends cool and crazy people and of coz also of couse got some ppl that i just dont want in my sight. And there i developed alot of skills in myself and how to cope with peers in kitchen. Like how to handle all the scoldings and irritating comments that other chefs give. I got to cook during service time too. Altough my starting cooking was lousy. Alot of my dishes were rejected again and again. I sauted savoy cabbage for the first time and almost half of the amount just flew on the floor. I had a damn good laugh. Practice makes perfect, when u saute somthing and need to toos it, just do it with confidence, now i can saute anything very easily. I learened evrything from scratch, even on how to hold a knife, i got alot of cuts. I developed a very horrible laughter in myself at the restaurant, very loud and screeching. Friends around me should know how horrible my laughing is.

EDWIN is his name. A.k.a COUSCOUS (Starter Section). Cous was my 1st section head. He is a CHEF de PArti3. I hated him so much, i just wanted to talk to him as less as possible. He was so bossy. And we had cold war for about 1 week. Coz theree was once i went "WHAT" at hime my tone was harsh then he scold me until very gUo fen. He had comments on every thing i do. When i got nothing to do, he just give me crap. Coz I always stand at my precious work spot Which is under a aircon that is blowing straight at my face and drink iced tea together with small boy. Will talk more about small boy later. After newyear cous was transfered to the maincourse station, then KIN took over his place. After kin took over, i and cous became friends again, i told him honestly, that i would not like to work with him any more. We just be good friends and it worked out. Btw this guy is the horniest guy in the kitchen haha.

KIN a.k.a Babe. Jr. Sous chef (Pasta to Main Course)later promoted to Sous. I hated him at first, always kena fuck. I always look foward to days that he is off then i work, then when i off he work, so 1 week i only see his face 5 times. And every sunday is wash fridge day!! OMG! that just sucks. But slowly, we sort of become good friends, we even go buffet together. And this idiot like to call me mid night 3am ask me wake up and go and pee. Siao one. But seriously he is the one that let me know alot of secrets in cooking and perfected alot of my mistakes. Miss him so much la.

ZEE A.k.a LADYBOY Jr Sous (Starter to Main Course). I think he is the maddest person in the kitchen. There was 1 week Kin was not around and he took over pasta section for that week, we had crazy time together. Because that was the 1st moth of my work i still dun really know how to cook, during a busy dinner service there was 4 fires and i was just stirring pasta at 1 fire! Then ocassionally he will take out this joke then we will laugh together. We love slow rocking. And everytime we seE each other we will just go wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! haha. Loves it!!
Abiel A.ka JUUNIOR Commis3 (Starter) Right side of picture with towel over shoulder. Hmm. This guy is patrick's son same age as me, we did breakfast together especially on sunday breakfast, even simple things like toast bread will just make us toasted. haha. Err i remember he sliced off his nail while cutting bacon one day, i rushed to the clinic together with hime, the situation was damn horrible, then he got many dayz MC, come back get fuck by COUSCOUS.

Patrick a.k.a OLD MAN. Commis 1 (Pasta). This man if I am ever going to see him with a walking stick im going to kick it away and push him into the drain. Haha joking. Patrick joined Picotin 1week after me, he is a very expirienced guy, coz he work in aust before, even as a dish washer in Paris. Can tell that he have seen alot of things. His working style very organised i salute him for that. I remember every day after kitch close he will write on the wall the mise en place for the next day, and when i arrive the next morning i will try to complete the tasks.

Nabin a.k.a BORAT. Trainee. (From Pasta to Starter). Borat is from Nepal, he has horrible english, but one he understands his tasks well he will do it not bad, his working style is very clean, he cleans as he moves, eveytime when i have trimmings around it will go missing very quickly. When i have a messy table, he will just clean clean clean very quickly. Even my trimmings for stock also lost! haha very funny lor.
Davina no nickname. Trainee. (Starter) Davina is from Sunrise. guess her age? sure wrong la! She has a wierd working style of working, she has a very soft voice, and when she is holding somthing very hot she will hold it very low at the same time SQUEAKING her famous line "excuese me....." then when she needs way she will start grabbing arms giving shocks. Scary!
Will update more about picotin soon.... Its now friday morning 2am. TATa!
Since long long ago many years back, I told myself after my secondary school education, no matter what im going to shatec, coz im the kind of person that just cannot sit down, but just love the process of food preperation. Finally last year I finished Sec 5, I went to register for shatec Pastry and baking course i got the chance to enter the january group but i refused, instead i applied for the july intake. The reason behind this decision is because i wanted to look for a kitchen job and learn abit of the industry before i even enter shatec, in this way i can have more confidence in school and know the style of working in the kitchen. But now i sort of regreted takIng the pastry course as i have realised that i am more suitable in the hot kitchen. Perhaps this is because of my work expirience at the restaurants. But its ok i totally dont mind as after all i got some knowledge in pastry as i continure on my culinary journey future. Like that i know both sides, how cool!!!
A week after my 'o' levels i started looking for jobs, it was not easy at all, i bought news papers everyday, then look at the job section, then type emails, prepare letters, go for interviews, making appointments. As i didn't have any expirience it was tough for me. I went to a range of different restaurants, itallian, french, fine dining, bristro bla bla bla. "GO BACK AND WAIT FOR PHONE CALL" stupid statement, i hear that so many times la. Then i got a phone call, from saint pierre i was not sure of what kind of restaurant is that but i was asked to go for a interview, so i went. During the interview i showed CHEF my home econs pictures and just try to impress him in anyway i can to proove to him the passion i have for food. Then he said 3 words "I'll take you". WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT!!! i was so happy larh that day was 3rd December 2007. He said "u can start work on monday 10th december 2007, but within the period of this 1 week i want u to go and understand and study the concepts of french cuisine."

This man here was my boss/chef Emmanual is his name. He is a famous celebrity chef "chef in black, u know? "He's so damn nice. But there were times that i didn't like him too. But nevermind, i was very grateful to him to accept me into the restaurant. Its FINE DINING okay!!! CRapy restaurants dont take me, wheras saint pierre took me, so cool. Saint pierre has a group of restaurants including picotin as one of them. I only work at saint pierre for 4days befor i was transferred to picotin.
I remember the 1st job i had, peel 15 red skin potatoes, slice them thinly with a mandoline, and make it into a gratin. and gratin was the 1st thing i had to do every day and i was so slow la. Then i was aked to brunoise a yellow zuccini skin it too me 2hours to do that la. But chef said "what i want is the quality, never mind about the speed." i was some how touched by that i don't know why. I also had to peel live prawns in the fridge to ensure freshness, its was so damn fucking cold in there. But being a NEWBIE in the kitch was tough, i was pushed around and was given crappy shitty dirty jobs, and i felt like a dog. I had to strain alot of huge pots of stocks, and no one offered to help, so i just did it alone. Even lunch i ate alone, i didnt want to talk to anyone. The ppl there were not friendly too even the service ppl, except for a few. During dinner service, i was treated like a piece of rubbish, due to space constrain i was blocking the work space for other chefs. So i just went to pack the fridge and help cut bread for the service staff. On the 4th day of work chef said he was dissapointed with, me he said that during the interview i showed alot of enthusiesm towars food, but now he just see me hiding at a corner doing nothing. At that moment i tought i was going to get fired, i was very scared. The he said "I got a piece of good news and bad news" i was even more scared "tmr u are OFF" i almost died i tought it means FIRED, but on saturday, i will see u here at 10am and i will fetch u to PICOTIN. I was relieved and SIAN at the same time. I told him that i prefer to work at saint pierre as picotin was too far from my house. He told me that changes will be made after new year, but it didnt happen.
Actually wana go bedok 88 hawker eat dinner with Ellisa and Ralph but ralph cant make it, so instead i decided to go jacks place since i never go before, and have been talking about it these few days. Meet Ellisa at her void deck then we walk to Century square jacks place. i expected the menu to be rather expensive but to my suprise is was like 20% cheaper than what i expected, therefore my mood was like arrrrgh just eat and ignore the price. The menu has alot of variety, see until blur blur hard to decide. This term learning menu planning, next time my menu cannot make it like dat blur blur to customers. haha. I ordered a 350g T-bone, Ellisa 200g Tenderloin. Then we added the promotion set thingy for $7.8, then can get any a la carte soup and dessert. Both of us had lobster bisque, and dessert mine peach somthing and hers mango jelly. The manager was damn gay, very funny.

When i go toilet, that siao char bo above go n put dat pic as my hp screen saver, i almost died.
Then the next thing after dinner i was so full, and i keep burping la, and suddenly she lift up all her hair into a bush and ask "我美不美??" i just choked and this just killed me la. haha. anyway i ejoyed dinner with her so yeah.
Tenderloin

T-Bone: I ask for medium rare and this is like totally rare, had a hard time cutting, still pass anw

Dessert: Peach Melba (Left) & Mango Jelly (Right)

Oh ya! I also applied for the restaurant member, next time got discount and points
Recently i went fucntion crazy i love functions. I got 4 functions in 2 weeks. What is a function? A function to me is a table for 6, whereby 6 ppl come to my house then we sit down tgt and eat. If u are invited before to my house u should know what I mean. I only invite 6 ppl everytime not 5 not 7, becoz my table juz nice for 6. and once confirm i expect all the guests to turn uo, or else if theres an empty seat at my dining table its damn ugly i totally hate it. another bad situation that can happen is that if he/ or she brings an extra person in be it his/her lover or friend or wadever. then there will be 7 ppl and everything i have 6 only, which includes all cutlery and seats. If every one is using a white square plate and a give u a black round one, how will u feel? awkward right? anyway all the functions were sucessful except for one which has an empty seat, honestly i was very pissed. I would also like to take this oppurtunity to thank my assistant Cynthia to help me prepare the MISE EN PLACE or else i will just die, altough the bursting was bad enough.
ARE U HUNGRY?????????

The Dining Table

Nibble Platter: Tomato Gazpacho, Smoked salmon crepe, Crab and rockmelon salad, Tuna mayonnaise topped with lumpfish caviar

2nd course: Wild mushroom soup with sauted mushroons, herb oil and bread stick

2nd course: Cream of Leek and potato soup with vol au vent casing

3rd course: Pan seared scallops on rattatouie with mixed salad and wild salmon caviar

3rd course: oven baked mussles on rattatouie with wild salmon caviar
Main Course: Peppermint chicken, asparagus, roasted vine riped tomatoes and duchess potato

Main Course: Tomato based seafood linguinie, Vongole, Prawn, Squid, Scallops

Dessert: Ice Cream on Warm dark chocolate cake, Strawberry sauce, Peach

From Left: Madeline: Jin Mei, Diana, Jasmine, Jocelyn, Me

MY Sec sch teachers at function from left: Mr Ves, Mdm Chua, Me, Ms Wong, Mr Ralph and Ralph
to my very ugly n boring blog. i duno how to make nice nice coz i totally suck at pc stuff. perhaps it will become nice with some help from some friends.
Louis is my name. My 18th birthday was 4 dayz ago, never did much just ate buffet with 3 of my classmates YC a.k.a orh jiao, Lydia a.k.a crunchy bye and Cynthia a.k.a BOL professional, all of them are "siao lang" im nothing better la trust me we are very reactive and will kill one another, just like when u put salt and yeast together. after that went to sch to make puff paste, and i screwd it. nevermind WHATS DONE ID DONE, ITS A FACT, SO FACE IT. Btw thats one of my standard lines. During IS, a few of my claas mates gave me a damn sexy present la, its a DEvIL G-string with 2 horns, went home than my mother open the box then show to my brother alamak, NASI LEMAK la. After sch its already 6plus then went to Tampines mall, had DIn tai fung wif my family, thats one of my fav restaurants, i got very high taste for food, most of the time when i say somthing is nice most likely others will agree. BOught drinking glassses from the ISATAN sales was damn cheap, can buy!!! After dinner was damn full went home and died on my bed, before dat made those that forgotten to wish me to wish me, haha lame rite????Well thats about it for my birthday. Very packed day and sure gain weight.
Lydia's Creation
CYnthia's Creation