How to make Ice Cream Malaysia

Have you tried Malaysian ice cream before? It's such a simple ice cream, nothing so fussy about the method to make one but the taste is heavenly on your taste bud. I can assure you that! ^^

Malaysian Ice Cream recipe

Ingredients

1. Mineral water
2. Sugar
3. Any flavor of your preferences
4. Ice cream plastic bag

How to

Mix some water with sugar and flavor. Fill in the mixture into the ice cream plastic bag. Tie a knot at the end of the plastic bag. Lastly, freeze it. You can enjoy it best especially in warm weather country like Malaysia.

This is a mixture of preserved fruit, water, orange flavor and sugar.

Normally called as Asam boi ice cream.

This is a concoction of Milo, sweetened milk, water and sugar.

Our precious freezer, just for ice cream but we had problem with

it as it couldn't freeze the ice cream even after we left the ice cream

whole night! Definitely will reprimand the seller. It's not a cheap freezer!

Syrup, sarsi and orange flavor. We prepared some ice cubes to put

into the ice cream container too. So far, our daily sales top at about

80 pieces of ice cream per 1 hour sales in the afternoon. Nice right?

Do you think that 20 cents per ice cream is very cheap? 

I bought a Malaysian ice cream in the year of 1993 for 20 cents too. 

It is crazily cheap, right? ^^

Buying props for Small business

It's about time to start planning for our second business. We went to Pasar Borong Selangor (wholesale market) which is near to our house in Seri Kembangan. Our goal for today:

1. Check the price of plastic bag
2. Buy ice container for ice-cream
3. Buy  other necessary tools
4. Exchange coins at the bank

This shop sells egg, plastic bag, styrofoam container and etc.

We have been to Mydin Subang before but it is very far from home. However the price of the plastic bag or wrapper here is a little bit more expensive than the one in Mydin Subang. Yeah..we lose some, we win some right?

Pasar Borong Selangor is near but wee bit expensive.

Mydin Subang is far but cheaper.

*sigh*

After checking the price of plastic bag, our next target is to buy the ice cream container. Off we go to the a shop across the road.

We bought a red one. Nowadays we sold a lot of 'Icecream Malaysia'!

What can we do without our precious icecream container?

Market research for small business

Remember our goal on the first post? We want to open 3 types of small business.

The first - sell Malaysian chips. - checked!

The second - finding food markets for students in Elementary/Primary school and secondary school. - in progress.

 

It's about time to start another shop in front of the school next week. We have bought a few type of snacks from Mydin Wholesale Market in Subang:

• Cloud 9
• Chocopie
• Doubledecker
• Mentos
• Choclairs
• Jelly
• Apollo cocoa layer cake
• Corncos

The price is quite okay. Some of them have higher profit but some are not. We thought that it will be okay as some are fast sellers.

So, off we went to do some serious market research in front of the school at 1.00 noon. The Primary/Elementary schools in Malaysia finish at about this time and the Secondary school a bit later. When we reached the school gate, there are 4 stalls already opened there.

Stall1: Drinks, snacks,hot dog, local ice cream, fruits

Stall2: Ice blended juice

Stall3: Ice cream ( from a 2-wheeler motorbike)

Stall4: Ice cream ( from a 3-wheeler motorbike)

Our finding

1. Malaysia is a warm country and selling hot food is not a great idea at 1 noon. Ice cream or cold snacks would be great.
2. The buying power for children nowadays is unbelievable! We asked a few children, how much money they brought to school? Most of them brought at least RM1. Another kid surprisingly brought RM4 each day and spent it all. WOW! I just spent 20 cent in 1987. ^^
3. No license needed to sell in front of school
4. The ice-cream man rules! ^^ Even we bought one from him

Our challenge

We are torn between making profits and selling nutritious food to children.

What do you think would be good for our kids?

Business v/s Job

We are building this now, for our future.

If only we can have a money making machine. ^^

Business (Pros)

• you need an idea..not only an idea but a WORKABLE IDEA
• a stash of money to start your business - loan, saving = CAPITAL
• loads of perseverance, creativity and guts = ATTITUDE
• faith in yourself and in the business
• a lot of time for yourself
• annual leave 24x7, 365 days a year
• you work your PASSION
• lowest risk in being fired/terminated

Business (Cons)

• unpredictable, you won't know your income, no bonus, no EPF/KWSP, no allowance
• you are your own boss, so you have to answer for yourself
• your business might fail

Us after 3 years too? Hmm..

Job (Pros)

• stable income with loads of fringes/benefits
• you can climb up the corporate ladders from being rookies

Job (Cons)

• Unless you totally are in love with your job, it definitely is NOT FUN
• Fixed time and you are forever ruled and regulated. Talked about being late for a minute? No..no..it means NO FREEDOM

But how many people actually really want to be freed from this prison so called JOB?
Wishing for it? 100%
Honestly implementing it? 0.00001%? Yeah..I'd better start next year..or if not, the year after next.

How to pack Malaysian snacks?

We bought almost 50kg of chips from the kerepek factory and now it's time to repackage it for daily consumers. Today

Our goal is to start a small business to supplement our dwindling income. Initially, the plan is to sell

1. pre-packed rice + 2 dishes
2. various kinds of chips
3. breakfast or lunch at a street stall

Unfortunately we have to abort the first plan as another girl at our desk has already started her marketing. Hmm..We need Plan B! Although we feel that we need the profit urgenly (not even started yet..hahaha) but our subconcious minds kept telling us to hold our horses. Don't rush, we have to plan properly.

So, we started our second plan instead. It was coincidental with our holiday, nonetheless. Luckily, we met the right people at the right time and we were blessed with wise suggestions and advice from Zahari and the elders.

1. Ensure where, when, who, how, why to market our products
2. The price of our products must be competitive as per the market eg in Kuala Lumpur or a little town, price differs

Not even once that they mention of how much profit we want to churn out of this venture. Zahari kept telling the same thing; do our market research extensively before we jump.

As a normal human being, we stashed that "market research" out of the window and thought we might need it later instead of NOW. Hmm..and we learned our lesson the hard way. Why?

1. We always had our congeniality plan if we find our initial idea is going to fail - we had an analog weighing scale to pack the chips but we found out the scale is not accurate. Hence, we bought a digital weighing scale (bummer..it's pricey but it will gonna be our precious asset).
2. We don't have any target market. We don't know what are office workers' preferences or the students preferences. Simply throw in everything under sun into our plan and slowly we amend it.
3. We should have listened to experienced businessman - Zahari mentioned a few tips on market research and even fatty bom bom suggested that we should buy another type of spicy chip but I declined as thought that because I don't like it, so others won't like it. Bad..really bad approach.

Our 50kg chips, not much as a start.

Our pink analog weighing scale, so girly!! Kya!! But we have

to put it aside. T_T

Our expensive digital weighing scale but it made our life unbelievably

easier! Technology does help people.

How to go to Bagan Lalang

It wasn't an easy ride from Seri Kembangan to Bagan Lalang. As a known fact that I always misplaced my "things" (blame it on aging..haha); I totally forgot about the printed direction that I had consolidated the day before from various blogs.

If you are coming from Seri Kembangan / Puchong / Putrajaya / Cyberjaya; you can follow the same direction as per the post here. It's actually very easy to go to Bagan Lalang. If minus the time we lost our way, from Seri Kembangan roughly takes about 30 to 45 minutes.

What really made our endeavour easier was this particular super nice guy called Zahari. He was uberly nice by showing us all the routes to the best 'kerepek' factories in town.

Fatty bombom was blowing her top off as I had the group circling around KLIA and LCCT aimlessly. Sorry!! Being the overly positive me, I told them zillionth time that it was alright! Furthermore, this is supposed to be our precious holiday, right? WRONG! Our first goal on the list is to find the kerepek factory. Right on! I think God must have heard our wish and our path was made easier. Right after we asked the numerous strangers for the way, we met Zahari. He happened to be the 'tokey mesin kerepek' in Bagan Lalang. Wow! What does that mean? Nothing else, except $$$ *did you hear the cash machine ring ding dong at the back ^^ *

Without further delay, let's take a tour of our journey finding the most delish of them all.

Ketemu Rezeki, one of the kerepek factories that we visited.

Kerepek ubi - tapioca chips, fried and flavoured with only salt.

This is tapioca (ubi kayu) before it becomes tapioca chips (kerepek ubi).

The finished products: flavoured chips, spicy chips and salted chips.

All from tapioca.

Fried chips before packaging

This is the warehouse where you can buy chips in bulk.

We had our share of unripe Markisa / Passion fruit grown beside the factory.

It was so sour that it made me salivating even just by looking at it now.

Picnic at Bagan Lalang

I woke up late!! As promised to Fatty bom bom, I should be at her house by 8 am but I woke up at 8am! Hahaha..

The initial plan was to have picnic, some shopping and seafood dinner as Bagan Lalang is famous for seafood. However, the only thing that we managed to do was shopping..not like shopping as in shopping for real..hehe but shopping for Malaysian chips!

We had breakfast at Mamak restaurant for roti canai and teh tarik before we go.

Malaysian style breakfast - roti canai and teh tarik.

Warning: Don't do this everyday. Not good for your health.

I had printed the direction to Bagan Lalang but in the end I left it at home cause the beg that I used the day before was different from the one I brought to Bagan Lalang. Or was it because of my memory getting older? Hahaha..

This cat scolded me for taking his picture but he's so cute! ^^

Fatty bom bom's house is near Seri Kembangan (SK), so I parked my car at her house and we carpooled with her car to Bagan Lalang. We used the route from SKVE, until we found this signboard.

In order to go to Bagan Lalang, we have to go towards KLIA. Then we take the exit to MEX (Maju expressway).

This is MEX

Drive straight until you find the signboard to KLIA for about another 1 km,

then take the exit to KLIA.

Just drive along the highway until you see the exit signboard to KLIA, turned left.

Once you see the toll pay RM4.30. After that drive straight until you see the 

signboard for LCCT Terminal, turned left.

(Warning: Don't drive straight after you see the LCCT Terminal sign Jangan terus, nanti pergi KLIA. Actually, we were lost and went straight to KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)

If you take the left exit after LCCT terminal you will see a mosque on your left.

Go straight and you will find a roundabout. Take 12 o'clock direction and drive

straight until you see Sepang Goldcoast.

Take the left exit and you will find the F1 circuit on your right. Drive straight until you

see the traffic light and you will see a very huge 'ENSTEK' signboard on the hill.

At the traffic light, turn right.

Drive straight until you find a T junction and the end of the T juction, you

will see the sightboard to Hotel Seri Malaysia. Take the right turn and just

follow the S curve. You will see a really small town.

Just go straight until you find the signboard to Sg Pelik.

Make sure that you pass this brick factory on your left.

Then drive straight until you find Sg. Pelik town!

Quiz: Can you guess which one is fatty bom bom?

Minus the time we lost our way, from Putrajaya to Bagan Lalang roughly takes

about 45 minutes or maybe 30 minutes if no traffic or police? Hehehe..

Why Google Adsense does not accept Malay Language?

Recently we have received an email from Google Adsense saying:

"Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into AdSense at this time.
We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.
Issues:
- Unsupported Language"

Although we knew that Google Adsense has updated they never accpet Malay Language, I just want to reaffirm the fact. I have made another blog totally in English :- http://budgettravel2korea.blogspot.com/ and Google Adsense has accepted to put their ads there.

This is quite dissappointing cause we are unable to make use and be proud of Malay Language. T_T

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Business Planning

Why do we need to plan?

Remember the saying "If we fail to plan, we are planning to fail" ?
Hence we need plan. It doesn't have to be extravagant and 100% perfect.
The important thing is that we will seriously be involved in every way to ensure the success of the business. Every steps and seconds are precious and crucial to determine the result.

Our plan:

• survey the raw material price from the local supermarkets and grocery stores
• survey ingredients price at local fish market
• survey Malaysian chips price at a few locations eg Muar, Batu Pahat, Sepang

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The first day of WarungBombom

Today, Fatty bom bom and me started our first step in planning WarungBombom. Due to unpredictable economic circumstances, our rejected over time request by the management (feels like strangling them) and we are realistically money crazy; hence the reason of this business idea.

We are planning to do 3 types of small business but 2 out of 3 has to have proper and detail planning. Basically, we have discussed mainly on:

1. The shop's name
2. The shop's blog
3. Menu and price
4. Location
5. Raw material cost
6. Capital
7. Profit

Myself had very little experience in business but I was not shy to try. I had sold Nasi lemak and cookies from house to house in my early twenties just for fun but have never had formal learning of business as my family background is closely related to agriculture.

After two days of heated discussion on our initial business, we went to do price comparison at a few places namely the local supermarket Giant and the Selangor fish market. Later, I created a blog and the pictures below tell all.

Planned and immediately started a blog. So fast!

After that we had hot dog for dinner.

Yummy!! ^^

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