Japanese Beef Curry

Ingredients:

• 150-180g of beef cubes
• half carrots cut into chunk
• half potato cut into chunk
• half a pureed apple (I used the shredder to shred it to it is mushy too)
• 1/4 cup peas
• 1/4 onion cut into thin slices
• 1/4 tbsp oil
• 120ml water
• 1 tsp garam masala
• a small pinch of salt
  
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp flour
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 tsp Worcester sauce
• a pinch of freshly grounded pepper

Methods:

1. Heat up the oil in a sauce pan and fry the onion till golden and caramelised, used medium fire.
2. Once the onion brown, add in the beef cubes to brown it.
3. Add in the carrot and water. Turn the fire high.
4. Once at boiling stage, add in the potato, apple and garam masala. Simmer on low fire for about 20-30mins.
5. On a separate pan or saucepan, melt the butter, add in the flour and stir constantly.
6. Add in garam masala, curry powder, tomato paste, pepper and Worcester sauce.
7. Continue to stir till the mixture becomes dry and crumbly.
8. Add in the mixture into the pot of beef stew and stir till it mix well. Season with salt and done.

* amount for one person's lunch box, so multiply based on person eating.. :D

Soto Beef Noodle

Went to that Sabah FoodCourt for lunch again with some colleagues and this time I ordered Soto Beef Noodle. Taste good, but too bad, the portion is kinda small for the price...

Chicken Fish Maw Soup Noodle

• 1 chopped chicken drumstick


• 5 pieces of red dates


• 2 pieces of fish maw (soaked for 10mins)


• 5 slices of ginseng


• 1 piece of dried scallop


• 2 pieces of dried mussels


• 1 teaspoon of Benedict DOM


• 1 teaspoon of soy sauce


• 3 cups of water


• Salt and pepper to taste


• 1 piece of dried noodle.

1. Bring one cup of water to boil, and boil the dried noodle for 2mins. Drain and mix with Benedict DOM and soy sauce. Leave aside.


2. Bring the balance of 2 cups of water to boil. Add in red dates, scallop and mussels.


3. After 5mins, add in chicken drumstick, salt and pepper.


4. Add in fish maw after 5mins and boil for 10mins.


5. Serve the soup on the noodle.

Chicken Fish Maw Soup Noodle @ Group Recipes

• 3 eggs



• 1 piece of cheddar cheese (cut to small sizes)



• 1 teaspoon of cream cheese



• 1 teaspoon of olive oil.



• 1 dash of pepper.

1. Break the 3 eggs to the heated pan oiled with olive oil.



2. Put the cheese all over the top of the egg. After 1/2min, add in the cream cheese.



3. Fold the egg over. Dish out before the egg harden.



4. Serve it with the dash of pepper on top.

http://www.grouprecipes.com/11786/creamy-fry-egg.html

Steam Clam

• 1 inch length of ginger, cut to slices



• 5 pieces of dried chilli (seeds removed)



• 1 dash of salt



• 1kg of clam with shell



• 5 cups of water for steaming

1. Mixed everything except the water in a steel bowl.



2. Steam in boiling water for 7 mins or till clam shells open up.

http://www.grouprecipes.com/11784/steam-clam.html

Lai Mien

Today went to Comic Cafe to try out since the cab driver said that the food there was quite good. Indeed, the recommendation was right.

There is this China guy there doing lai mien (pull noodle, i.e.: hand made noodle). Really with skill and taste good. The noodle is pulled quite thinly, does not stick together and taste better than yellow noodle. However it is not as springy as those instant noodle, but that is good, at least not so much of chemical....

My Beef Noodle, taste good, not too thick, but still fill with taste. The beef is so tender...

The pulling performance:

To view the video, go to Pull Noodle Performance.

EatinOut

Last Sat, had lunch and dinner at 9 to 5 Cafe (just a coincidence that the friend that we had appointment with at night wanted to go there without telling us earlier)

I ordered marmite chicken rice, and hubby ordered sesame chicken rice. Taste kinda not bad. That was for lunch.

My marmite chicken, hand a bit shaky (phone camera too sensitive, no stabilizer)

Hubby's Sesame Chicken

For dinner, we ordered ala carte style instead. Had a kailan fried with salted fish, taufu with minced meat and century egg, pandan chicken and savoury sotong. Got too busy eating, not much pics.

The Taufu Dish

Today had lunch at Taiwan Food House (near to 9 to 5), had ice cream fried rice. Tasted like butter rice (those butter prawn, creamy taste)... not bad, but too oily

Noodle Soup

• One piece of dried noodle


• Two pieces of sausage (cut to 4 pieces each)


• Five pieces of chestnut (boiled and skin removed, halved)


• Two teaspoon of miso paste


• 200ml water (four soup)


• 200ml water (for cooking the noodle)


• One small piece of lotus root (sliced)


• One teaspoon of soya sauce


• Four pieces of chinese date


• Few leave of lettuce


• A dash of pepper


• Parsley for decoration

1. Boil 200ml water. Add in noodle when the water is boiling. Leave it for a few minute till the water re-boil again. Drained off the water and let some cold water run over the noodle. Set aside.


2. Boil another 200ml of water. Add in lotus root, chestnut and red dates. Leave it to boil for about 2mins.


3. Add in miso paste, soya sauce and sausage.


4. Stir in the noodle and lettuce.


5. Dish out to serve. Decorate with parsley and dash on some pepper.

Noodle Soup @ Group Recipes

Kimmy's Restaurant

On Friday before CNY (two days before CNY), the office staff decided to visit the 9 to 5 Cafe again, but they were already close for the holiday.

So, we visited Kimmy's Restaurant instead. It was my second time there. First time, I took the ready chap fan (mixed rice). But this time, I ordered seafood fried rice. Tasted terrible. The seafood was blanched separately and add on to the rice after it is being fried. Not much taste on the rice also.

My tasteless seafood fried rice:

Jackie's Lemon Chicken Rice: