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Just a heads up for any one who gets the Mediacorp Channel 8 broadcast! (Probably Singaporeans and Malaysians)

I’ll be (my hands, rather), on the kids show 开课咯！(Apes Love Hypercraft) making molecular gastronomy goodies this Sunday 31 Dec 10am on Channel 8. It’s in mandarin but I think there should be subtitles.

Basically, the director found out that I could cook, so an additional scope was added to my job (*⁰▿⁰*). I’ll post the online link after it airs!

(AndyesthismeansIcanmakeSouma’sbento)

Edit: (because tumblr won’t let me put pics in reblogs)

This is the link to watch it legally online! https://video.toggle.sg/en/video/series/apes-love-hypercraft/ep5/558085 . My segment is the first one after the opening titles, so about 00:30-05:15.

Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, it might not work in some countries. :( And I can’t find the button to turn on subs on the online player, so be warned that it’s in Mandarin.

So, I made gifs!

Hey look, now you know how to write ‘Molecular Gastronomy’ in Mandarin, even if you don’t know how to read it. (Fen4 Zi3 Liao4 Li3)

I did the usual spherification:

Putting honey sodium alginate into the calcium chloride mixture. This was Souma’s method (from Shokugeki no Souma) , but the cons of this method is that the balls will keep solidifying, so you have to serve it quickly after it’s made...

... so that it explodes in your mouth well.

And then I did reverse spherification by putting something with naturally occuring calcium (a yoghurt-heavy cream mix) into a sodium alginate bath...

... which also explodes, but more like lava.

Then, for the final pièce de résistance, I made an egg with regular spherification for the ‘yolk’ (Made of mango juice)

“I have to stir again?!?!” Most of the shooting day was taken up by stirring, really.

The egg white was made with the same yoghurt mix.

How to tell it’s me and not some imposter: insanely short thumbs

The explosion shot didn’t look that nice, so I gif-ed the part of me squirting ‘soy sauce’ a.k.a. chocolate sauce on it:

“Sweet Sunny Side-Up Egg”.

Of course, there’s the mandatory “eating part” (spherified noodles). (I’m not the person behind the big ape head. XD)

I also made them credit me as @onionchoppingninja, the ‘Molecular Gastronomy Consultant’ XD. (I’m also credited elsewhere, but that’s a secret. :D)

"Hello, where are you? Come on lah get to the on-air, okay thank you..."