Halloween and Garlic Pork Salad Dinner

 

 

October's main events are  my dad's birthday and Halloween!



 

I went to Breadsociety and they had cute halloween decorations, all made of bread!

 

I bought this little pumpkin guy pastry called "Trick or Treat".

Banana is stuffed inside of the pastry and the face part is made of pumpkin cream.

 

On Thursday, we had a small halloween party at work too :)

We all dressed up in costumes which are made of newspapers!- environmentally friendly costumes.

It was all so fun!

 

 

 

 

 

And this is what I ate for Friday dinner,

Salad.



A bed of lettuce, and on top of that, tomatoes, onions, garlic pork, tuna and egg.



 

I had a huge plate of pasta for lunch, so I decided to eat salad for dinner.
(Well, the salad still looks like a lot, doesn't it. Yes, I know that.)

I ate it with Japanese sesame dressing! YUM.

 

I know that sesame dressing is high in calories...

Is that why there is no calories mentioned in the bottle of my sesame dressing?

I know my other dressings like pickled plum dressing clearly states it only has 3 calories..

I wonder how high the sesame dressing calories are... :O


I'd rather not find out.

:

Buta no Shogayaki Dinner

 

 

Thursday Dinner

 

 

*Buta no Shogayaki

*Unohana

*Spinach in Japanese sauce

*Cheesy soya renkon (lotus roots)

*Okura Mis soup

 

 

 

 

Buta no Shoga yaki (ginger pork)

 

 

 

Previous post on Shoga yaki is here

 

Last time when I wrote this post, I was in Melbourne.

I couldn't buy thin sliced meat in local supermarkets and

I had to either go to Asian grocery shops or Korean supermarkets in city.

 So what I really used in the previous Shoga yaki post is not really thin sliced pork..

 

 

Compared to that, everything is so easy  in Singapore.

I can get real thin sliced meat in local supermarket!

What is more, there is a huge Japanese supermarket called Meidiya too.

 

 

Anyway, so I made ginger pork with truely thinly sliced pork this time

and you know what, IT TASTES BETTER :)

 

 

 Ginger pork Serves 1

 

Ingredients

Thinly sliced pork 150g

Onion1/2

 

Ginger one piece/block

Soya sauce 2

Mirin 2

 

 

Instructions

 

1. Slice the onion thinly. Peel the skin off from ginger, then shave it.

2. Heat up a pan with some oil. Cook the pork and onion till both change colours.

3. Add the soya sauce, mirin and ginger. Stir well and cook for a bit more.

 

 

 

 



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Highly Recommended Japanese Movies!

 

I watched 2 Japanese movies over the weekend.

One is called Bokuno Hatsukoi Wo Kimini Sasagu/ 僕の初恋を君に捧ぐ
This movie was really good! It made me think a lot about life, love and family and life again!

I cried a lot and then couldn't sleep after that!!!!
It is highly recommended - I instantly had to email my brother and asked him to watch!
Has anyone seen this movie yet?? I just want to share this feelings with someone!

I am so tempted to watch this again!! Tonight!!!
Ah but tomorrow is monday. Better sleep early...so maybe not.
(My habit is to watch the same movies over and over again once I like it so much).


Very Sad, yet very sweet.
I loooove this movie!

The other one I watched today is called Tsurega Utsu Ni Narimashite/ツレがうつになりまして
I have been wanting to watch this movie ever since its ad came out!!
But at that time I couldn't watch it cos I was not in Japan when the movie actually came out!

Today I finally got to watch it! :)
I cried again for this movie, but this time, it was more like happy tears.
And and I loooved the lizard in the show!! So cute!!
I wanna keep one at home too!!!!!

I cried sooooo much over the weekend watching good movies that I am feeling really tired now. haha
Tomorrow is monday! Better sleep early and get good sleep!

Happy weekend :)
また一週間 がんばろー

Japanese Style Bibimbap Dinner

Saturday Dinner * Japanese style Bibimbap


 

 

Singapore is a tropical country and its weather is hot throughout the year.

But recently it rains a lot and it is not as hot as it used to be.

It is kinda cold at night too.

It is considered as "autumn" in Singapore? 

 

 

 

 

Hot miso soup and Japanese style bibimbap dinner for a rather "cold", autumn saturday

 

 

Ingredients for Bibimbap.

*Thin sliced pork cooked in Japanese BBQ sauce

*Unohana (Okara)

*Spinach

*Okura (Lady's fingers)

*White rice

 

Instead of eating this up with Korean sauce, I used Yuzu Kosho.

Both the ingredients and the sauce are Japanese style!

 

I also used Okura in the miso soup.

The combination of Okura and fried beancurd in miso soup is

what my sister taught me in Yamaguchi. I love the stickiness of okura in my miso soup! 

 

Just to enhance this autumn season in Singapore, I ate my dinner with an autumn dinner place mat!

 

 

 

 

 

Cooking Craze

 

 

Wednesday Dinner

 

Beef hamburger steak with veggies cooked in tomato soup

 

 

 

Thursday Dinner

 

Unohana /Okara with carrots and fried beancurd

Okura (lady's fingers) with Summer orange soya sauce

 

 



 

 

 

 

Chicken Karaage sandwich with Carrot bread

The carrot bread is from my new favourite bakery called Bread Society in IION Orchard!

 



 

 

Friday Dinner

 

 

Friday at 5!

 

We had some dumplings and meat buns at work :)

 

 

 

 

 

 



Taco Rice Lunch & Chicken Karaage dinner

 

*Sunday Lunch*

 

Taco Rice

 

Ingredients: Minced beef

Taco chilli powder

Salsa sauce

Cheese

Lettuce

Tomatoes

Onions

Egg

 

 

Instructions: 1. Heat up a pan with minced beef. Stir fry it with taco chilli powder.

(I found beef quite oily so I usually don't put any oil at all)

2. Cook sunny side egg.

3. Cut tomatoes, onions and lettuce in eatable sizes

4. Serve miced beef on top of rice and a bed of lettus, tomatoes and onions.

Place the egg on top. Eat with salsa sauce and some cheese.

 

 

 

 

 

*Today's Dinner*

 

 

*Chicken Karaage

*Spinach egg rolls from the day before yesterday

*Salad

*Rice

 

 

 

 

Ingredients: Chicken thigh 200g

 Soya sauce 4 table spoons

Mirin 2 table spoons

Shaved Garlic or ginger 1 tea spoon

(ginger is better if you are eating this in school or at work)

Potato starch half a cup

 

Instructions:

Marinate the chicken in soya sauce, mirin and garlic or ginger and leave it for a while.

Coat the marinated chicken with potato starch and deep fry them with good quality oil.

 

 



 

Yamaguchi Trip Day3 Last day

 

 

Last day in Yamaguchi :(

 

 

Just like yesterday, when I woke up, there was already delicious breakfast ready on the table.

 

Thank you, sinster :)

 

 Today's breakfast was Japanese style!
Okura & fried beancurd miso soup was super delicious!
I had Soumen Uri for the first time.
Soumen uri is a vegetable, which falls in the same category as cucumbers.
But when you boil it, it falls a part and becomes like soumen noodles!
It was very interesting and delicious at the same time!

We also had egg plant & garlic pickles!
We got this from the very kind house owner yesterday.

Rice was Shin mai = freshly harvested rice.
So it was so soft, sweet and round and shiny like pearls.
It was simply delicious!
 

After breakfast, we packed our stuff and head to the airport.
We had to return the car at the airport by 4pm.
and it takes more than 2 hours to get there from the house
so we didn't have much time left for sightseeing on the last day.

 

 

 Yet, we stopped by at Public Onsen on our way!

It was not as big and fancy as the one we went on the first day,

but I felt so great to take a hot bath!

 

 

 

 

After Onsen, my sister took us to "Go jyuu no tou" = 5 story tower.

 

 I've seen 5 story tower like this in Nara before,

but didn't know that there were so many of this all over Japan.

 

 

 

 

 

Uguisu bari no Ishi datami

The floor just next to this sign board has special effect.

It is called Uguisu bari /Nightingale floor.

 

If you walk, jump, clap your hands on this floor, bird like sound echoes back to you.
I have read about this in one of my favourite books called
Tales Of The Otori
So I was so excited to experience the floor.

The book is highly recommended by the way.


 



 

 

Finally at the airport, we had delicious food again!

 

Deep fried Fugu!

I ate fugu for the first time.

It was very tasty!

 

 

Breakfast+Lunch is called Brunch.

Lunch + Dinner is...??

 

Lunner!

 

It was late lunch/early dinner for us.

 



My mum had Tenpura don + Udon set

 

 



YUM!

My sister had some stewed fish and sashimi set

 

 

 



 

 

My brother and I had Kaisen don!

Sashimi Sashimi!

 



I tried Uni for the first time, but didn't really like it.

 

 

Finally,

 

Thank you so much, my sister, for showing us around!

Thank you Yamaguchi for the beautiful scenery and food!

Thank you Yamaguchi people for your hospitality!  

 

 

My family and I had a great holiday :)

 

 

- The end of my Yamaguchi travel posts-