Miniature 5 carrots (carat) ring

When CY came to learn the carrot ring from me, I was so curious about it. So I asked him, your girl friend loves carrots so much?  He said it is a joke, as he can't afford to buy  a real 5 carat diamond ring now so he wants to make a 5 carrot (carat) ring for her. Isn't this idea so sweet and creative?!

You can buy anything you want if you got money but you may not have the creativity to make something you want ,but you can learn. He bought a carrot ring  from someone before but this time, he decided to make his own diamond ring for his girl friend. So touching! I am sure the one who received it will never forget his love and sincere .

                                              A 5 carat (carrot)  diamond ring.

               This is CY's 5 carrot (carat) ring and a mini one carrot cake .

                                           one carat (carrot) diamond ring!

        Everyone is born with creativity , don't let them sleep through your life. Wake them up!

Miniature Bar Chor Mee

Bar Chor mee (肉脞面）or minced pork noodles is always my favourite food ( I mean the real food).In my early stage of making fake food, I was so sad that I cannot make myself a miniature clay mee pok. I tried many methods and keep on practiced until I satisfied with my work.

I have made a few bowls of 20 cent coin clay miniature mee pok, I seldom make bar chor mee pok in so small size as it takes more time to do, my student ask me to make few at a time so I try. It is super  happy when you see five finish at a time.

          without the miniature watermelon at the size, sometime you can't tell whether the miniature food is
          real or fake.

Qing Ming (清明）

The Qing Ming Festival is also know as the March Festival Originating from The Zhou Dynasty. It is set in the 15th day after the spring equinox of 24 solar. It has a history of more than 2500 years. But the most popular is know as Grave-sweeping  or Spring Remembrance. It is a time the Chinese families show their respect to their ancestors by visiting the graves.

There are many Qing Ming  rituals practice  by the Chinese, one of them is food offerings to their ancestors. 

Here are some of my handmade miniature clay food for those who want to pay their respect and place them at the columbariums. 

                        My handmade clay food:  /size: 20cent coin. miniature local delights and pastries.

Can you name all the food? 

I love the miniature kuehs!

There are some many machine-made miniature pastries in the market so I seldom make them.

The miniature  roti parata  looks delicious! Learn how to make this at Advance level. 

        Keep all your favorite miniature food together, it really fun and joy when looking at them, especially 

       your own handmade miniature food, no matter what is the purpose of making it.  I love it!

Clay Food Model/ Replicas - Chicken Cutlet Rice

This is another plate of my handmade food model in live / real size : Chicken Cutlet Rice

The most difficult part is to make the rice,  every single piece of rice is made from my hands and join them together. 

I am not a professional food model maker,  I do not own a big kitchen for baking /heating so I do not make mould for my food, every piece of food is knead and shape from my hands. So I cannot repeat the same item twice.

   My handmade food model:   Chicken Cutlet Rice with curry and vegetables

           The fake curry is quite difficult too, to get the fake oil floats on top of the curry I have tried so many times .

         

               This piece of art work seem quite simple but take up a lot of time to finish , I really love this fake chicken cutlet rice, hope you like it too!

         

PS: If you like to see the real things please visit the NEX shopping mall level four food mall.

A table of local delights (miniature size)

As a Singaporean, I really like the food here. So I keep on trying to make new local miniature clay dishes . Recently I have made the fried oysters, of curse made of clay. The picture below showed are some of my favourite dishes.

Miniature fried hokkien mee.

Miniature chilli crabs

These are very common local delights you can find in our food court. I made them into miniature size.

                  

Featured in My paper(我报）

My article was published on Friday, 09 March 2012 on My paper. (page B11)

                 The article showed you step by step how to make a simple heart shape cake.

Ah Ma's miniature food

         

Ah ma is 85 years old, she is one of my oldest student in miniature classes. She holding her recently handmade miniature food                       

She made a plate of mix miniature vegetables, a mini bowl of rice and a miniature cup of coffee, all the miniature bowl, plates and cup are done by her too. I am so proud of her.

The average age of this senior citizen miniature class is 65+ the youngest lady is my class assistant .

Nicole and her Cinnamoroll's cafe house

She is a very quiet girl with lots of ideas in her mind. As requested , I teach her to make her favorite cartoon character,  Cinnamoroll and his friends, ...Capuccino; Mocha; Espresso; Chiffon; Milk;in miniature size and  together with the mini cafe house too.

                                                Making her favoutite characters

        I am sure beside what I have taught her, she will add in some more her own favourite     food/snack/decorations for her miniature Cinnamoroll cafe

        Cinnamoroll and his friends, Capuccino; Mocha; Espresso; Chiffon and  Milk are having fun at Cafe

                                                   Nicole's and her Cinnamoroll doll house

     

Burgers Lover

I like to make miniature clay food that I like to eat most.  I do not like to eat plain bread alone as I like to eat the fillings inside. Thanks to the one that created sandwiches and burgers, so that I can eat them both together.

            The burger looks nicer with a bit round "head". I used the real sesame  seeds.( you need to do something to the seed first)

           There is a hook on top of the mini clay burger, you can use it as a hand-phone strip or key chain.

             This mini burger is different from the others. It has a mini tomato and the colour of the meat is  
              darker. This is a miniature clay beef burger.

      To make all these miniature and live size burgers, you really need  to have a lot of  patience .

 

古早味Ice Kachang (live size model)

Below show a typical Singapore's style Ice  Kachang. This is a custom made real size clay Ice Kachang. During a hot day, this ice kachang really make you cool! I like this

              This bowl match the fake ice kachang so nicely.  I love it so much but need to give it away. I may not make the same like this again but  good things need to be shared and I hope you like it too.

              The fake red beans, corn etc  are surrounded the fake Ice Kachang to make it looks more  
               delicious!

                        From the top view of the fake Ice Kachang.  I like the corn on top.

Fake Drinks

I seldom make drinks as fake beverage need a lot of materials and these solution is actually not cheap. But I have made some real size fake drinks and ice cream. Hope you like them.

 
              This is a miniature  milk shake with whipped cream and strawberry on top

                     From the toothpick you can know the size of this miniature drink
     

         
                                                This is  a real size ice mocha

                                    With some chocolate on top, make it more delicious!

An real size chocolate  ice cream float 

                                              This is a fake ice cream with whipped cream.

Miniature Beggar's Chicken

"This dish of Beijing origin, Beggar's Chicken also called "jiaohua ji" 叫化鸡 in the Shanghainese dialect, and the chicken is stuffed, wrapped, and roasted in this traditional Eastern Chinese recipe also this dish is very popular with Far Eastern gourmets."


Why it is called Beggar's chicken, that is a story behind, please visit:   www.foreignercn.com for more. 


I remember the last time I ate this beggar's chicken was about 30 years ago at a quite famous Chinese restaurant in Japan. I don't really remember what type of ingredients was placed inside the stomach of the chicken, but I still can recall the taste!

I have made this miniature Beggar's Chicken, well, the name doesn't sound nice but the taste is fantastic!

My handmade miniature clay beggar's chicken

  
                         I just put the things that I still can remember into the stomach of the chicken.

                         There are some chinese herbs and some chestnuts.....I have put some red dates too.

   
                     The size of this miniature beggar's chicken is shorter  than a toothpick.