Turtle buns from Nine Emperors Festival

Last Friday was the last day of the Nine Emperors Festival. This festival is celebrated for full 9 days and it usually rains throughout this period of time. Hence, shushu was getting very restless for the past few days as it keep raining and he couldn't go for his daily walk.

To celebrate the festival, the devoties will take vegetarians meals for full 9 days. As such, during this period of time, you can get very nice selection of vegetarian food. Besides this, you can also get a special type of steam buns, in the shape of turtle and colour in pink/red as well. They are available for purchase in pairs. These buns are made as a part of the offerings to the gods during the festival.

Here is a picture of the turtle bun I bought (3 left as 1 eaten by me!)


Shushu's reaction to the turtle bun



There are lots of ways to eat them - you can just steam them, or you can fry them with butter or made french toast out of them. Being the lazy person I am, I just use the simple way of steaming them. I have given some to shushu as a treat. Shushu is crazy about buns, all type....

small piece - look not so happy


bigger piece - happier


Happy Nine Emperors Festival!!

Birthday celebration

We didn't plan anything much for shushu for his 1 year old birthday celebration. Originally, I decided just to cook him a nice meal in the morning but unfortunately, the kitchen cooker battery died on the same time.......

So, for his birthday breakfast - he got canned food instead.
I opened a can of Solid gold lamb, barley and carrot meal that look like this:


Then added half of his ussual kibbles and mix them up.


Shushu waiting for the food at the kitchen.


Verdict:
Unfortunately, he didn't like the can food. He ate it even slower than just only the usual kibbles. So, I decided to make him a nicer meal in the evening.....

For his evening meal, he got chicken, potato and carrot boiled with a little bit of garlic.


shushu deeply concentrating on his meal


Finally allowed him to eat.


But that's not all yet. We decided to cook him a dessert - a little steam cake (since my house no oven) for his birthday. I don't have any recipe and with the limited ingredient in the house, I just try making something similar to a pancake. I used 1 egg, 1/2 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of flour, shredded carrot and apples and a spoonful of honey and combined them together.
This is how the mixture looks like.


This is how it look like after cooked. Ugly ler?


Surprisingly, he likes it.


He also got a soft bone for his chewing pleasure after the meal. I guess shushu birthday celebration was more like a food banquet for him that day. Hope he liked it!

Shushu and the celery

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there live a young doggy named shushu, who loves to eat vegetables. One of his favourite veggie is celery. He just loves the feeling of chewing on a juicy and crunchy celery, simply irresistable!!

One day, he happened to meet with a very big juicy celery.



Shushu's eyes just light up with happiness upon seeing the beautiful celery. Wait, things was not as simple as it seems, for the celery was not that easily attainable! It was actually being hold captive by....(tahdah!) a evil master. Shushu beg and beg for the celery but no avail. The evil master demanded for shushu to bow down before him. But that's not all. Shushu was made to balance the celery on his nose while laying down. Poor shushu!



(Doesn't he look miserable?). However, when the evil master was distracted, shushu took the opportunity and made a daring escape and even rescue the beautiful celery........wow!!



That's not the end yet. Shushu went on and participate in a eating competition and won the fastest celery chewer ever. He broke the record by finishing in less than 2 minutes! Here is an actual footage of the eating competition:


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Hope you enjoy the short story! The end.

Chow time!

Hi, shushu here.
I was very sick for the past few weeks and didn't have much appetite, so master decided to cook for me most of the time.

Feeling hungry, I decided to go and hunt for my food.

First stop - living room...sniff sniff any food?


Next stop, dining area......hey, any food on the table?????


Peeking into the kitchen


What are you doing there, master???


Yay, found the food.... what? I have to sit and wait before eating???


Finally, yum yum....


Aahhhh, burp....cuse me, feeling very full...time for some R&R.


My eyes cannot open anymore....nite nite!


love,
shushu