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Skriven 2009-04-08 11:05:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> If my laptop disappeared because of another tourist, that
 ML> wouldn't make Singapore any nicer for me, would it.
 GJ> I think it was in Surabaya that the German Johnnie nicked the watch.

Surabaya Johnny, warum bin ich nicht froh?

 GJ> This would have been at the time (1999, I think) when you hosted the
 ML> That was more likely to be road works. Possibly the beginning
 ML> of the slight Green Line relocation, which was associated with
 ML> the same Big Dig project.
 GJ> "Slight" by your standards, perhaps, but enormous looking to these
 GJ> colonial eyes.

It was a relocation by a few hundred feet, so slight. The
depth and cost of the excavation might have appeared to have
been more than slight, though.

 ML> Sydney in general left me cold, cold, cold.
 GJ> It can be interesting to visit, but I would hate to live there.
 GJ> A recent rating of Australian airports put Sydney at the bottom of the
 GJ> list.  Brisbane was top, and Adelaide second.

I'll have to visit Brisbane sometime.

 GJ> And yesterday the Qantas baggage handlers went on strike, as Qantas
 GJ> intends to give their jobs to contractors, which means they will miss
 GJ> out on the perks of what they can steal from travellers' bags.

Indeed. That's what Sydney is all about. I used to say that
Sydney was like a cross between New York and Disneyland. Now
my thinking is that it's more like a cross between Philadelphia
and Disneyland.

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 GJ> Adelaide on 15th April.  Jo has bought tickets for me on Tiger
 GJ> Airways, which is now running cut-price domestic flights in Australia.
 GJ> These flights leave in the middle of the night.  I don't know what
 GJ> planes they are using, but I have been given seat number 01A.

01A usually gets less carry-on storage than most seats. Tiger
seats have a 28.5" seat pitch, compared to 30" on the worst
US carriers. I've not been able to find any more information.

 ML> Indeed. I thought it interesting that we flew straight
 ML> into the middle of a storm cell instead of taking a hold
 ML> until the red (on the radar) cleared the airport.
 GJ> That would have been quite an experience!  Did the pilot give any
 GJ> reason for that action - like wanting to die?

More likely wanting not to run out of avgas and die.

 GJ> I saw a brief excerpt in a recent TV food program about Tetsuya, who
 GJ> is probably the top chef in Australia.  He said he didn't know how to
 GJ> cook when he arrived here in 1982

When we ate at his restaurant, it mostly blew Cheong away.

MALACANANG ROLL
cat: Filipino, dessert, cake
yield: 1

h - CAKE
4 eggs
3/4 c sugar
1/4 ts salt
1/4 ts baking powder
3/4 c cake flour
1 ts vanilla
h - FILLING
1 cn evap milk
1 oz chocolate (or 3 Tb cocoa)
1 c sugar
2 Tb butter
1 ts vanilla
1/4 c flour
3 egg yolks
1/4 c water
h - ICING
1 c sugar
1/4 c water
1/2 ts vanilla
2 Tb Panda syrup
3 egg whites
1/4 ts cream of tartar

Cake.
Beat the eggs with baking powder and salt. Beat
until foamy then begin adding sugar gradually.
Continue beating until mixture becomes thick and
lemon-colored. Add vanilla. Fold in cake flour.

Have a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2" jelly roll pan greased
and lined with wax paper, then grease again. Pour
the batter into the pan. Spread it out evenly.

Bake at 400F for 12-14 min, until it springs back
from touch. Turn out upside down on a cloth dusted
with confectioners' sugar.

Pull the paper off carefully. Trim off edges and
roll up. Allow to cool.

Filling.
Mix sugar, flour, and cocoa well. Add milk and
water. Cook until thick; then add egg yolks and
butter off the fire. When cold, add vanilla.

Icing.
Boil sugar and water then add Panda syrup.
Simmer for a few mins. Don't stir.

Lower temp when adding syrup to broken egg
whites to prevent hardening. Beat egg whites
until foamy. Add syrup little by little.
Continue beating until stiff. Add vanilla.

Assembly (missing from original).
Unroll cake and spread with filling. Reroll.
Ice with icing.

Note: I am unfamiliar with Panda syrup and wonder
if "pandan syrup" is meant.

Said to have been invented by Cornelia Lichauco


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