The Food Trend

 Food Industry evolves over time and trends change from to time. More food become more interesting and 'yummy'. first of all, izinkan saya untuk menulis dalam bahasa melayu. sebab sebelum ni saya guna bahasa inggeris. hehe. campur bahasa ye. So, zaman sekarang ni, makanan adalah sesuatu 'benda' yang penting untuk kehidupan seharian kita. Wherever we go, we will always find food to eat right? That's why food is important.

Saya share sikit gambar makanan yang menjadi trend sekarang seperti mana anda lihat di sini. Menarik tak makanan ni? lapar pula rasa. hehe. kita sebenarnya makan untuk hidup ke atau hidup untuk makan? Persoalan itu akan dibincangkan next class nanti.
Apa-apa information nanti saya akan share dengan korang ye. :)

Sebagai contoh, 'burger'. Kebanyakkan burger ni kita boleh dapat di mana-mana pun atau kita sendiri membuat burger. What i mean is, homemade burger. Contoh gerai burger yang saya tahu adalah seperti 'Ramly Burger'. Ramly Burger ni sangat famous di Malaysia seperti mana yang saya tahu, where The Ramly Burger also known as The Burger Ramly is a Malaysian street burger founded by Dato' Haji Ramly Bin Mokni through Pemasaran Ramly Mokni Sdn Bhd in Malaysia. Founded in 1979. Saya tertanya-tanya apakah trend burger yang akan datang (generasi seterusnya) maybe burger tu lebih besar daripada yang biasa? atau perubahan dari segi bentuk burger di buat? atau ingredient yang berbeza? semuanya akan terjawab pada masa akan datang.

 Besides, i would like to talk a bit about this ice cream. Where we can see clearly the changes and the evolution of the ice cream. Siapa yang tak pernah makan ice cream yang di atas tu memang ketinggalan zaman la. hehe. Sebab ice cream tu dibuat dari dulu lagi sebelum ice cream yang lain tu ada. Seperti gambar sebelah kanan ni. Orang zaman sekarang sangat bijak. Mereka mempunyai idea yang lebih kreatif dalam membentuk ice cream yang lebih sedap dan menarik. Pernah tak dengar ais krim goreng? haa ais krim ni pun adalah satu trend. Banyak lagi yang saya ingin cerita di sini. Disebabkan saya kesuntukkan masa, sampai sini saja la cerita saya.
Sekian..

How chocolates are made from cocoa beans

I want to share some information on how chocolates are made from cocoa beans. There are few step in making chocolate from the cocoa beans which are harvesting of cocoa beans, fermenting, drying, roasting, cracking and segregate, grinding, tempering and lastly moulding.

So, this is the photo of cocoa beans. First of all it begin with the harvesting process. The ripe cocoa pods harvested twice a year but the harvest time is different depend on a region to another region. The pods will be cut open by machetes and the white pulp is taken out from the pods. 

The second step is fermenting of the cocoa. The pods and pulp is then put into large wooden container s within a week. This process will help it to ferment more evenly and developing the flavour of the chocolate. The next step is drying. After fermentation process, the cocoa beans will be drying spreadly under the sun at long period until it completely dry.

After that proceed by the roasting process that be done by the chocolate maker. The chocolate is usually made in cooler climates because the hot climates required to grow cocoa makes the chocolate making process more challenging. The use of standard ovens or other have speciall made systems designed to rotate the beans and roast as evenly and accurately as possible. 

Followed by the cracking and segregate process. Where the beans are need to be crack open and the shell is removed. Leaving the pieces of pure cocoa bean called "nibs". After that, grinding process using a machine called melanger. It is a simply large metal cylinder with two rotating granite wheels that grind the chocolate into very small particles. There are also some flavourings are added to the the chocolate such as sugar, milk powder for milk chocolate and others.

Next step is tempering. It is the controlled process of raising, lowering and raising the temperature of the chocolate to form exactly the right kind of  crystals so the chocolate would not be soft and crumbly and would melt evenly on the tongue. Lastly, the moulding process. Where the chocolate is formed in bar shape. The finished chocolate bar is poured into a mould. The melted chocolate is poured into the plastic bar-shaped moulds. For larger chocolate maker  will have machines and conveyors that deposit exactly the right amount of chocolate.