Roses, for women's day.

If you don't already know, let me tell you that longan and soymilk is another great invention. Just love how these two flavours tend to blend together. I was introduced to this the first time when I was still in high school, as far as I could remember. Then, my piano teacher loves to have parties and pot-lucks to celebrate when we all finish our piano exams. It was a group class, not really piano, somewhat Electones - but never mind that. My friend brought these soy milk jelly and in it was longan. It was love at first bite. I could remember it till now!

As it is also an International Women's Day, today on the 8th of March these roses are for all of you women out there. Hope you have your day off from washing the dishes and mopping the floor. Since it was Women's Day, maybe that's why my evaluators (for my most important oral presentation in the whole course) did not give me such a hard time.

Everyone loves the heart shaped jellies. What happens to the rest? As soon as the jellies hit the table everyone was fighting for the hearts. Even my aunt was! I grabbed the only rose and handed it to mum. It's for her. If there were hearts, I would have always handed it to mum but she always tells me "So old already, still want love meh."
So this time I handed her the rose instead. I think she likes it more.

Konnyaku Soybean Milk Jelly

1 packet (10gm) Konnyaku Jelly Powder
200g caster sugar ?

600ml unsweetened soybean milk ?
400ml water ??

1can longan in syrup

Mix together jelly powder and caster sugar.
Pour soybean milk and water into a pot and heat until it starts to boil. Pour in the sugar mixture and stir until it dissolves.
Drain longan from syrup mixture. Tear them into pieces and place into mini moulds, or if preferred, leave them in whole.
With a ladle, carefully pour them into the mould. Sit them in the fridge for 3-4 hours or overnight. Serve chilled.

~|Notes|~
? the soybean milk i used was quite thick so I used the ratio of soybean milk to water at 6:4,
put in more soybean milk if the store bought ones are more diluted.
?? water can be replaced with sugar syrup from the canned longan, but do remember to reduce amount of sugar.
??? mum hunted this brand of Konnyaku jelly powder down to Singapore. For some reasons they're not sold in Malaysia or only some in the non-halal section?
Other Konnyaku brand jelly would work too. Love the bounciness of it!
...doing doing doing..

Happy International Women's Day!