89. Our Food Diary Jan2021
2021
happy new year 2021!star pic
what we ate in Jan 2021:
- fresh fish with taucheo (fermented bean), garlic, chilli, sng buei
- steamed & fried fish
- soy sauce chicken
- sambal prawns
- assam pedas ikan pari (did not take pics)
- steamboat
- soup & rice
- spaghetti
- golden coin beef
- kuay teow soup & nasi lemak at telok blangah cres market
- indian curries and food from tekka market
- mbs bread street kitchen - gordon ramsey
- chicken feet and mushroom stew
- thai food - red & green curry, mango sticky rice, coconut blue ginger chicken soup, prawn cakes
- yardbird
shopping at giant tampines
- marinated pork ribs
- croissant
- corn & sweet potato >> soup
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30 Jan 2021
My birthday today! i'm 52 😅
Lunch - mini hamburger patties, tom yum soup, spaghetti oglio olio, dumplings...
Dinner - tabao from newton
What i bought:
$32 - TKR - Satay
$73 - Alliance Seafood
$10 - Thai - mango salad
total $115
What i ordered:
1. $32 - Satay - 20 chicken + 20 pork + 4 ketupat
2. $10 - mango salad $5 x2
3. $73 - Seafood
Seafood:
$40 black pepper crab
$15 crispy baby squid
$12 lala in chilli crab sauce
$6 mantou
what mummy and daddy bought:
$8 No Signboard - rochor mee
$7 popiah x2 rolls
$5 Bak chor mee pok with XO sauce
29 Jan 2021
Yardbird MBS
Smoked Brisket Sandwich
Southern Fried Chicken, waffles, spiced watermelon, fries (no pics haha)
dinner
this seems to be a short cut for steamed fish sauce.
26 Jan 2021 Tues
25 Jan 2021 Mon
spent the whole morning preparing and cooking!
- roast veggies - pumpkin, red and green capsicums, carrots, button mushrooms, tomatoes
- stir fry celery with capsicums and garlic
- chicken feet and mushroom stew
- chicken soup
- ginger paste for steaming fish or chicken or rice (no pics)
25 Jan 2021 mon
dinner - ok i have now a pic of the ginger sambal or paste that i made this morning
below: crispy seasoned flour from tekka market
24 Jan 2021 sun
dinner - i wish i just had brocoli with omelette.
but there was also curry and thai food on the table...
yes... overate again, ugh smh
24 Jan 2021 sun
Thai Food at Jai Thai Clover for lunch!
red curry $7
coconut milk, blue ginger chicken soup $7
fried prawn cakes $2.50/pc
thot we ordered too much but look at our bowls/plates before and after!!
23 Jan 2021 sat
so we tried to make some tandoori with curry powder and curd bought at tekka. at the end, we had to add our own ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice and salt... good thing we knew that! it didn't taste like tandoori but was still very yummy!
below: half a chicken with the powder and curd bought at tekka wet market
22 jan 2021 fri
masala chicken thigh, masala mutton, curry veggies
went to tekka market to buy ingredients for CNY dishes...
- buah keluak,
- blachan
(the type of blachan i wanted was unavailable as M'sia's struggling with Covid19)
- and ingredients for rempah,
like red shallots, garlic, ginger,
fresh kunyit or yellow ginger,
galangal or blue ginger, coriander
lime, dried chillis, assam,
fresh daun salam (bay leaves)
22jan2021
lunch - pomfret soup with rice (so good!!!) - tekka teochew fish soup
dinner - curry from tekka market!!
Tabao for dinner:
1. masala chicken $3.50/pc x2 maryland - from Aaya Indian Foods stall
2. mutton masala $4 - from stall specialising in Chettinad cuisine
3. tandoori set - $6.50 - from Shahs
-2 naans, 4 tikka chicken pieces, mixed veggies
(long beans, brinjal, aloo gobi - potatoes & cauliflower)
21 jan 2021 thu
boat noodles $1.50 each bowl & mango sticky rice $7
at seletar mall (i didn't like the food here)
below: conveyor belt sushi
21 Jan 2021 Thu
breakfast - bak chor mee at queen st coffeeshop (jln tua tow branch)
20 Jan 2021 wed
nasi lemak with bergedel and fried egg for breakfast $2
19 Jan 2021 Tues
breakfast - kuay teow soup
& lunch - meatball soup and rice with leftover assam pedas ikan pari
18 Jan 2021 Mon
Lunch at MBS, Gordon Ramsey's Bread Street Kitchen
18 Jan 2021
Gordon Ramsey's Bread Street Kitchen MBS
below: pics - cropped
bread
pork chop 280g $45
mushroom risotto with truffle pesto and shaved parmesan cheese $32
beef fillet wellington $80
18 jan 2021
below: pics with no cropping
18 Jan 2021
cooking chicken feet with mushrooms
17 Jan 2021 Sun
lunch - assam pedas ikan pari (stingray), kai lan
so yummy and no pics!
17 Jan 2021 Sun
Dinner - Aidan made spaghetti with button mushrooms & sotong
jelly cheesecake made by edna!
below: i cooked a 2nd batch but doesn't taste as nice as Aidan's
also used thai chilli flakes so it tasted a bit spicy
15 jan & 16 Jan 2021
soya sauce chicken $9.80 from china classic
16 jan 2021
frozen marinated pork baby back ribs @$11.90 per packet from giant
today, we bought the honey & herb marinated ribs.
goes so well with hot jasmine rice!!
16 jan 2021
veggie soup - corn, sweet potato, carrots, cabbage, red dates
16 jan 2021
Vannamei prawns from giant, $10/kg
whole chicken from giant $6.90/chook
11 jan - 14 jan 2021
these days i keep forgetting to take photos.
and when i do, they don't look as yummy as they should be!
back to the conclusion that i will always be able to take really bad food pics haha!!
below:
threadfin fish / ngo he in garlic and black sauce
chicken feet - bones haha!! cos i forgot to take any pics before i ate!
12 jan 2021 tues
below: kuey teow soup from
telok blangah crescent market $2.50!
my rice bowl over last 3 days...
11 jan - 14 jan 2021
14 jan 2021 thu
jannah blending yoghurt with
strawberries & blueberries
2 Feb 2021
Fish Section at NTUC AMK Hub
10 Jan 2021 Sun
we went grocery shopping at Giant when it was raining heavily for hours!
here are some pics of our trip to Giant Tampines.
8-11 Jan 2021
Crazy Weekend!
the weekend from 8-11 Dec 2021 had been dominated by the news of president trump & his incitement to storm into capital hill. wow. i can hardly eat or think of food. it feels like the world is upside down and about to end. sigh. it does feel like the korean drama serial "sweet home"- at the point where surviving humans come to realise that the world is now overrun by "monsters" who are engulfed by their desires. further down the drama series, we find that monsters and humans aren't that different after all! sounds like what is happening to our world right now, with covid19 pandemic and people doing ridiculous silly things.
below: what we ate over the weekend...
fried kuay teow,
kuay teow soup - homecooked,
kuay teow with beef stew (golden coin)
mommy's roast pork belly
fried fish - threadfin with black sauce and garlic
8 Jan 2021 fri
bought a LOT of food from 628 amk market!
golden coin,1.1+kg $19.50 @$17/kg
chicken feet (big ones) $5
chicken liver $2
fish balls $3, bak kueh $2, tau guah $1
red chilli - padi and big chilli mix $2
cinnamon + cloves + ginger $3.50
garam masala $1.50
kueh teow & bean sprouts $2
cooked pork skin $1
roast pork sio bak $3
honey char siew $5
malay stall longtong $3
malay stall sambal potato $2
pork ball porridge with century eggs $3.80
christen was so greedy he just piled his plate without making it look nice. just placed his food wherever there was white rice Lol said he enjoyed his lunch! nice! ("nice!" is his key word LOLOL)
below: just turned on the heat for a pot of
golden coin beef, 3 small onions, 1 garlic clove,
red dates, tang gui, shaoxing wine,
light soya sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce
salt & black/white pepper
below: photo taken about 1 hour later
(crockpot not boiling yet)
8 jan 2021 dinner
golden coin beef is always a WOW.
not so much for how it looks. but how it tastes and its texture!
soft wiggly tendon and tender beef - all melt in the mouth!
christen's friend brought him out on a yacht.
they went fishing and someone caught a huge snapper.
christen brought home a huge white snapper tail...
we only cooked half of it and still couldn't really finish it
we steamed half of the snapper tail HK style...
the metal plate is about 20" in diameter
7 Jan 2021
my rice bowl
6 Jan 2021
fishball and teochew meatball soup $4
from telok blangah cres market food centre, abc stall
4-6 jan 2021
have no pics for the dishes of fish that we cooked & enjoyed.
wow. can't wait to cook more of the fish!
3 Jan 2021
went to NTUC at 9.30am and by 10.30am, we saw the supermarket PACKED like... some crazy festival or some panic buying spree! we rushed out by 11am.
managed to buy some fresh fish from AMK Hub NTUC:
(no pic of my fish or the wet market fish area at ntuc...)
-whole salmon, cut into fillets - @$1.39/100g, my fish costs about $35
-whole threadfin, cut into fillets - @$1.59/100g, my fish costs about $32
-stingray wings cut into square pieces about $19
-kee fish x3 fishes, gutted - total $7
-dodo fish balls x2 @$1.70 each
also bought
2 whole chicken,
eggs,
veggies,
rice,
& detergent - breeze power clean, bleach, powder soap.
LUNCH:
so for lunch, gathered the 2 fish heads and fish bones to cook up.
Recipe: Fish bones and head with taucheo, chilli, garlic
fresh fish head & fish bones
fresh fish belly and wings
rempah:
-taucheo
-2 big red chillis
-1 big green chilli
-garlic x15
-sng buei x3 big sour plums
-thick black sauce
-fish seasoning (lee kum kee)
-water to make into a gravy
1. season fish head and bones with salt & pepper.
2. coat fish bones/head with corn starch and fry. set aside.
3. use same oil to fry rempah.
4. pour rempah over the fried fish and bake in the oven for about 10 min 150-180 degrees
5. serve hot with rice
notes:
but i prefer to make mine from scratch
i would use
light soya sauce,
garlic oil,
shaoxing wine
and a pinch of sugar.
3 jan 2021 - our lunch below:
3 Jan 2021
my thoughts about 2020 and upcoming year 2021...
everyone is hoping for 2021 to be a better year - many see 2020 as a horrible year. but i think 2020 was not only interesting, it gave us a wake up call, urging us to grasp the opportunities and choose our priorities better.
covid19 started sometime 2019, but 2020 is when it hit our shores and locked us indoors. 2020 is also a time to see how the West struggles with racism, democracy, polarization, free speech, economy & loss of jobs - in America, there's Trump & their election - that makes people shake or scratch their heads. in europe, there's brexit for uk, assassinations in france from religion-related issues provoked by the Charlie caricature, and rebellious crowds during covid, with those refusing to wear masks, social distancing or crowding at the beaches. in Oz, the PM keeps throwing words carelessly against china, claiming that it's his right to speak up and stand up for the country's "values" - this makes asians shake and scratch their heads as well... i can't help but think how selfish, inconsiderate and entitled the west is now. i can see why china feels bullied before and now try to assert its own values, stand their own ground. don't think i'm pro-china or biased against the west. i'm just losing respect for the west's so-called "values", where they seem hypocritical and self-centred. the world has not gone crazy. the world is beginning to fall apart because people don't want to focus on working together for the common good or goal. to simplify, unity and harmony are key, but these are completely ignored.
yes, i guess i do wish that 2021 is a better year. but i also need to re-define what "a better year" will mean to me :)
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