Had dinner with ML and Siew Mai to celebrate ML’s birthday and when we were flipping through the menu, I couldn’t help but comment that some of the dishes were doable in my kitchen! Then the 2 teased and said that I should cook and then they come over to eat. That inspired my “Omakase”...
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Special Gyudon For Dinner & Plum Vodka
That’s my special Gyudon. I decided not to put most of the beef into the egg mixture AND I used tenderloin instead of sukiyaki beef. The steps are similar to my recipe for oyakodon except that I now separated the soy sauce mixture (mirin and soy sauce) from the beaten eggs and used my new...
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Baked Miso Salmon with Baby Spinach Salad
I wasn’t very hungry and despite my truffle fries craving, I decided to be healthy. All fats in this dish are good ones! 🙂 No frying involved and everything was completed within 20 minutes!! I recently bought a bottle of white truffle oil so pardon if the next few dishes have truffle oil in all...
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Tempura don (Ten-don) and my special tofu
My aunt (who lives in the US) is in town so I decided to cook something special for her. Well…I was also craving to eat my special tofu but it requires a whole century egg, so she was my perfect excuse. Shh…don’t tell her that. Above is my special tofu which is light but makes...
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Okonomiyaki for a picnic dinner
Bro, a friend and I went to watch ‘Othello’ last night at Fort Canning. As it’s part of the ‘Shakespeare in the Park’ series, it meant bringing your own mat and picnic dinner. Tired of the usual potato salads and sandwiches, plus my friend and I just came back from Japan, we went with a...
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Stir-fried Soumen
Here’s something really simple to prepare and cook – all under 20 minutes. I just came up with this dish because my student cancelled our lesson at the last minute and I needed to whip something up quick and healthy. Soumen is a type of Japanese noodle that is normally eaten cold in the summer...