Attempt 1 : FAILED

final product - tastes like sugar soup cos i think i added in a bit too much rock sugar
n i added a chilli paste which doesnt suit at all

woke up this morning n felt the enthusiasm to finally start cooking my Hokkien Mee. Earlier i found a blogsite of someone who cooks alot from Singapore n she has this Hokkien Mee recipe thats supposedly passed from her grandma.

so i thot yeah, y not i try making my own hokkien mee this time, dunit to ask Ama n see.. maybe she'll be so proud (fine, i'll be proud of myself that maybe i inherited her perfect tongue for taste) n as it turns out, i made this HUGE HUGE mistake by not asking Ama first. so my fist attempt in cooking hokkien mee from scratch failed miserably. =(

i knew that recipe sounded weird already ... it has star anise n cinammon stick n cloves in its recipe.. thats more like malay bihun soup ade rite!! mum called earlier n i briefly asked her n she told me NOT to add those but i thought like how much difference would it make if i add in 1 SMALL flower rite.. turns out - yucks! n moreover, i didnt haf a blender, food processor, or pestle n mortar so i kinda just pounded the dried chillies wif a ladle..

the amount of shallots i hafta slice

ATTEMPT 2 : coming up.