Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Cheese cake!


Shota had started his semester again, this time its history on East Asia. I was flipping and reading through a few chapters and it never fails to help me doze off lol! This textbook is so boring! Baking at Kristi's house is so much more fun! This time we tried to make cheese cakes!



his homework

in process of baking

looks sweet isn't it?

strawberry cheese tarts

having fun with little one

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Chinese Dinner @ KARINBA

Shota loves eating Chinese food in Japan. When we were dating and i was visiting in Japan, whenever he suggested to go Chinese restaurant, i will make a face and said i do not want to eat something i always eaten at home. However he managed my mind 2 years ago when we were touring Tokyo and there was a Chinese restaurant that opened till wee hours near our hotel. They have different dishes that i had never seen it on Singapore menu before and they adapted to Japanese taste as well. Its was delicious! How narrow-minded i was. 

Recently we went to a Chinese restuarnt *Karinba* to have our dinner, i like it but regretted choosing the cheapest set menu as 3 dishes of meat have almost same ingredients with different sauce only. Next time i shall choose others!


can you find where's Shota?


@ Karinba


fried rice n corn soup egg

xiao long bao, soso for me


Thursday, January 23, 2014

Lazy day

Sorry to my readers, haven't been posting any interesting events since new year. Since it is winter now, the frozen road conditions and freezing weather did not help in motivating us to head out. Most of time we are hibernating like a bear instead. 

Chinese New Year is coming soon, guess most of you are counting down the days and busy spring cleaning for upcoming festive. Those that have yet to clean your house, its time to do so! 

Back to sleep after he came back home from work. So adorable hugging senior!

Mac Donald in Japan came out with American Vintage Burgers and bacon cheese fries. I prefer Spore KFC cheese fries. 

Shota cooked chicken katsu don! 

While we are busy, our penguin family is enjoying nap time 

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Cookies Time!

I love staying at my friend house! Their house is fully carpeted with heater plus i love their L-shaped sofa!!! So warm and cosy! Don't be offended when you read this post, Shota! Not that our house is not comfortable.... Just ............ Theirs are better lol!

Anyway, i baked my 1st virgin cookies under Kristi guidance. Not as difficult as i thought it would be. However i only baked the 1st batch and Kristi took over as i was watching wolverine movie on their BIG TV. 


my final product

what's not to love! They sure know how to make a guest feel at home!

Friday, January 17, 2014

North 40-40 yet again

Since now my friends are back to Misawa, i finally have the chance to bring them to one of my favourite restaurant North 40-40. As usual, they did not disappoint me. 

There was a funny incident that happened when we entered, in the midst of hanging our jackets, Bao broke 1 of their hangers. I am not sure it was due to his scarf that weights and looks like a blanket or he was simply too strong haha! I hope the owners do not view it as bad omen for their start of 2014!




fish set

beef set



apple pie


they looked so happy...!

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Delicious Pho!


Went to gym with my friends, i need to start getting back into shape or at the very least stop having shoulder aches. Cutting down on food prove to be difficult due to Shota and my friends superb cooking, every time when i protest and say too much, they will make the meal look and smell so good that i be an idiot to resist lol! So after the gym, i went to their house and they make me their Vietnamese home dish called Phoy. Its basically consist of vermicelli noodles in ox tail soup and mixture of meat and vegetables depending how you like it. As expected, it tasted so good! 









ox tail soup that would be eaten for at least a week!


you place e ingredients in before adding the soup

da ta! Final Pho!

Kristi's meaty Pho, Bao's healthy Pho and mine already start eating Pho !lol!

Yes i can do it... Go on!

Shoulder aches go away!

Mango strawberry smoothie 

Thursday, January 9, 2014

永遠の0

Under Shota's persuasion and with his "please go with me & i really want to watch this" puppy eyes begging me, i agreed to watch the Japanese war film with him. Typically i have zero interest in this genre of movie type. However i found myself in tears 50% throughout movie even when there no subtitle nor kanji on the screen and so many question marks. Towards the end, i could roughly understand what it is about. 

Shall not go into details of movie, but it make me understand how the war has different sides of view and ultimately there are no winners in the war regardless which side won.   







Tuesday, January 7, 2014

New Year Part 2

The next day we awoke up pretty late and okaasan prepared ozōni (お雑煮) , which is soup with mochi rice cake, chicken and others in it. This is the dish all Japanese will eat on the New Year morning. Afterwards, they drove me to shrine to pray as well. There were tons of people queuing to buy the amulets omamori (お守り, we joined the queue as well to buy omkuji. Omkuji is a written oracle which you will shake the box til a stick with stated number will fall out and they will give you a paper with prediction of your fortune for this year. Both Shota and i got 大吉! Okaasan got only 末吉.

May it will be a great year for us as the fortunes say! 


お雑煮


They are making free red bean mochi for whoever that visit the shrine

its sweet and warm, prefect for such a cold day!

queuing up to buy those fortune prediction 



mine is on e right, shota on e left




waiting for our turn to try out luck on getting the gifts

i got the 2nd prize! how lucky! 3000 yen shopping voucher!

every shop is selling Fukubukuro, 福袋. It is a real bargain to buy, items in it cost more than what you pay for. It is what japanese are waiting for during New Year 

Mochi

Red bean paste mochi

Dinner! Scallops 

super sweet kani!

to rest my stomach, my fil cooked crab egg porridge.

my steak lol