tattfoo: community based intervention artist

Tattfoo’s Malaysian Herbal Soup (Bak Kut Teh)

This is a favorite Chinese Malaysian dish, originally it was make with pork bone, the flavor of the bone marrow is key of the success of the soup. Since Malaysia is an islamic country, it was altered using chicken so that all can enjoy is flavorful soup.

Ingredients:

6 Chicken thigh with bones

1 Prepacked Herbal soup base
8 cups of water
3 spoonful of oyster sauce
3 spoonful of thick soy sauce
3 spoonful of light soy sauce
1 spoonful of sesame oil

1 pack Oyster mushroom
1 pack Shiitake mushroom
1 pack of Enoki mushroom
6 cube of fried beancurd
half a Pe-tasi (chinese romain lettuce)

Fried chinese twist crullers.

Preparation: Brown chicken thigh in a casserole, once brown add water, soy sauce, sesame oil, oyster sauce and the herbal soup base. Bring to a boil. Add the rest of the ingredients and continue to cook for 2 mins. Served over steamed jasmin rice. Garnished with Fried chinese twist crullers.

Special ingredients: Bak Kut Teh herbal base are available at Asia Market Corp, 71 1/2 Mulberry St., New York, NY 10013 Phone 212-962-2020

I just got introduce to Stephanie Diamonds artwork, What I Eat. It is also a recipe and community based artwork that share a lot of similarity with my current project Nuevo Americana Recipe.

http://www.stephaniediamond.com/past_work/what_i_eat.html

Nuevo Americana Recipe:
compiling your heirloom recipe

Nuevo Americana Recipe, is a compilation of stories, recipes and photo essay of immigrants experience and their cuisine. This project consist of a recipe journal, photo essay and recipe bookmark.

This journal is a blog, a cookbook and a collage by various authors and contributors. I’ll seek and compile recipes from various immigrants groups and investigate what is their comfort food and heirloom recipe. The contributor can be an immigrant or even a descendent of an immigrant where the original recipe is passed down through the generations. It will have stories of their journey, family history, picture of their home back in their motherland, illustration of cooking techniques and introduction to exotic ingredients.

preparation time: now
Ingredients to prepare:
1 cup of recipe
1 pinch of background stories
A spinkle of picture

Please send recipe to me at info@tattfoo.com or call me 718 753 7297 to schedule a cooking session together.

This project was made possible, in part, by a JPMorgan Chase Regrant in partnership
with the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island.

My first time baking for Bryant. No need to buy those package treats that you have no idea what goes into it. I was super excited that he does like it and willing to do any tricks to get a bite.

A box of chicken liver, puree till liquid

2 cups of whole wheat flour

1 cups of corn starch

1/4 cups of oatmeal

Mixed the above ingredients together in a large bowl and roll the dough out at about 1/4 inch in thickness. Cut dough with knife or using various fun shaped cookie cutter.

Open Secret weekend had been a success. We had around 80 people visited over a 2 days period. Flux Factory did a great job by having a bus to shuttle visitors to all the locations. My special thanks to Melanie, Stuart and Jeremiah you guys are awesome.

Seem like I’m on a trial of daddy’s little girl concept photo essay. I had been shooting my friends Wilder and Adam and their daughters. learning on lightings and capturing moments. More picture on www.tattfoostudio.com. And more daddy out there that are interested for a photo session?

Now that I’m exploring photography as a medium and the upcoming movie Eagle Eye. It get me starting thinking. Our society is so affraid of our neighbor and the unknown that we are being survelliance all the time. Every building that I enter have taken my ID and my picture. These low res snapshot really intrigue me.

I just updated my design website. This time around I’m also offering both photography and illustration services.

Published by Ladies Home Journal

Bryant has been feature on the chinese newspaper for his role as Chief Kissing Horse The Ambassador of Fake Attraction 2008.