93. Our Food Diary Apr2021
Our Food Diary April 2021
hmmm... we might wanna go here some time...
Star Pics...
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what we ate in April 2021
dinner black sotong and sweet potato leaves
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what we ate in April 2021
- thosai masala
- slow cooked chicken soup and rice - with recipe
- scallops with tung hoon - with recipe
- oxtail - soup and tomato stew - with recipe
- pork chops (shoulder butt, ngo huey) - with recipe
- mapo toufu - with recipe
- assam pedas with batang fish and ikan pari - with recipe
- fried tung hoon with recipe
- thai asparagus
- chicken macaroni soup!
- chicken soto!
- chicken soto!
- steamed fish thai style
- prawn with tung hoon (used same recipe as scallops with tung hoon)
- western & cafe food - waffles, pork chop, fish & chips, pasta -
- chicken rice from 628 market (always good!)
- deep fried spring chicken from Vincent's @amk central
- feta cheese salad - goat feta cheese from huber's
- pork porridge from telok blangah market
- pork chop with salt, pepper, garlic and fried onions
- canned corned beef with fried egg and rice
- salmon dishes
- mala xiang guo - cooked at home using Haidilao spice mix
- chinese soup - buddha jumps over the wall
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30 April 2021 Fri
i brought christen to the telok blangah rise market for breakfast. we had some soya sauce chicken hor fun and shui kao or prawn dumplings. he enjoyed his noodles!
funny thing... christen loves chicken breast meat so we ordered the ordinary chicken hor fun (where we're so likely to get the breast meat) but the owner gave him a drumstick (which costs more, about $4) and the strangest thing is, christen hates chicken drumsticks most LOL
X (no pic of christen enjoying his breakfast LOL)
tabao a pack of Malay nasi lemak from Labrador Nasi Lemak & Nasi Padang stall. it had a very traditional nasi lemak taste - the sambal is not too sweet and exactly the right sweetness that i like, but the sambal is way too salty :((
29 April 2021 Thu
waited for jannah at plaza sing. then we had lunch at a vietnamese place.
beef pho for jannah and some prawn/crab beehoon soup for me.
the food is a bit on the expensive side. but we were surrounded by women customers speaking vietnamese. so i suppose the food is either very authentic and/or they have a lot of support by their own people. how sweet!
28 April 2021 Wed
breakfast - kuay teow dry!
27 April 2021 Tues
Pork Chop - nice!!
26 April 2021 Mon
Buddha jumps over the wall -
SOUP & rice for lunch!
soup menu
below: buddha jumps over the wall soup
at NTUC finest looking at wines -
should i buy one to make lamb shanks?
26 April 2021 Mon
bought some cooked pork from the 628 amk wet market yesterday.
- pig skin $2,
- pig large intestine $3,
- roasted belly pork $5
the lot smells bad today yuck!
so i boiled the pork bits in water,
(pork bits = pig large intestines and pork skins)
a pot with pig bits and water,
added light soya sauce,
chinese wine
and rice vinegar.
threw away the water
and put the boiled pork bits into a new pot.
stewed the pork bits
with the black sauce gravy from the market,
thick dark soya sauce (from chicken rice stall)
fried crispy garlic,
chinese wine,
white pepper,
light soya sauce
and a pack of raw brown sugar...
woahhhhh. my pork stew smells amazing!!
too bad my pics look... so bad ugggh
i guess it looks better in a bowl... ?
looks better and tastes better with
sng mi chou or garlic vinegar chilli sauce
perfect with rice, teochew porridge or kuay chap!
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| sng mi chou or garlic vinegar chilli sauce |
some close ups, photo edits or crops...
25 April 2021 Sun
bought some beef and lamb at the wet market
Ribeye steaks x6 (1/2 inch thick) $35/kg - $38
Knuckle beef - about $16/kg - $10
Lamb Shanks x3, $20/kg - $28
25 April 2021 Sun
Chicken Rice day!
Hainanese Chicken Rice from 628amk market
for lunch and dinner
- 1 whole chicken $24
- chicken liver x4 portions $2
- chicken rice x6 packets 50 cents x6
- fresh cucumber, archar, chilli sauce, ginger sauce,
thick dark soya sauce, pre-mixed light soya gravy,
total: $29
24 April 2021 Sun
tried the Mala Xiang Guo ready made chilli paste by Haidilao
i think the chilli paste is great but i didn't realize i used too much paste when cooking, so my dish was just too salty and too MALA Lol - ma (numbing) and la (spicy).
Recipe - Mala Xiang Guo
1. Haidilao's Mala Xiang Guo spice mix
the packet comes with 2 portions in 2 separate packs.
i suggest you use about 1/2 each time
2. meat
- i used pork ribs from my soup
3. veggies of your choice
- i used black fungus
you can also add toufu
4. noodles of your choice
- i used glass noodles or tung hoon
5. aromatics - chop them up
- ginger
- garlic
- onions
- spring onions
- coriander
6. pre-cook veggies and meat, set aside
7. fry aromatics. then add mala spicy paste. fry for a few seconds
8. add the pre-cooked meat, veggies etc.
9. add water or stock and let it boil before you add the noodles
i used tung hoon so that it would soak up the liquid and make the dish a little drier but not completely dried up. my pic of the dish below looks dry but i do have about 1/2 pot of gravy at the bottom.
10 place into a bowl, add sesame oil, spring onions, coriander and serve wth hot fragrant rice!
25 Apr 2021 Sun
it was so salty i added one bowl of water into the Mala dish.
next time i'll use half a pack for a dry version and full pack for steamboat.
24 April 2021 Sat
Lunch - Soto Ayam on a rainy day! wow
24 April 2021
sandwiches for breakfast can be really yummy!
only on days i feel like having a butty!
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| bad pic taken from my phone Lol and prolly bad photo editing too! |
23 April 2021
nothing as comforting as chicken macaroni soup for me!also love a fried rice with all the leftovers from dinner the day before Lol
22 April 2021 thu
altho i think the taste is ok, i'm not sure why i ended up not liking this simple fried bee hoon with a fried egg and ngo hiang (or meat roll). chilli sauce was ok too but i really didn't enjoy this breakfast. i'm not even sure why i would dislike it even though the food was ok.
20 April 2021 Tues
breakfast - porridge with century egg and a raw egg
after my breakfast, bought some belachan from the wet market at telok blangah cres. wonder if it's as good as the one i bought from tekka market? the sticker and text look sooooo similar...
link to belachan bought at tekka:
dinner - omelette and baby kai lan - so good!!
also had chinese style curry chicken - cooked by tini, but no pics
19 April 2021 Mon
DINNER
fried tung hoon
with thai asparagus (thin ones),
fried salmon
recipe below
Recipe - Fried Tung Hoon
fried with garlic, red chilli & thai asparagus
1. soak tung hoon in hot water,
then strain water,
2. season tung hoon with...
- mountain sauce,
- light soya sauce,
- oyster sauce,
- fish sauce,
- sugar,
- white pepper,
- shaoxing chinese wine,
- fried garlic oil
3. boil thai asparagus in salted water,
asparagus stalks first,
then later add the asparagus tips
4. in hot oil, fry garlic, chilli
(and prawns/scallops if you have them!)
add seasoned tung hoon and some water
fry till tung hoon is al dente
add spring onions and coriander while hot
5. serve with steamed fragrant white rice
& a dash of lime juice!
assam pedas with sour bling bling fruit
6 April 2021 tues
3 April 2021 Sat
3 April 2021 Sat
steamed grey grouper thai style
1 April 2021
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| i didn't have fresh prawns or scallops so i used the fried salmon fish Lol |
19 April 2021
LUNCH
canned cornbeef with onions and chilli,
fried sunny side eggs and rice. wow!!
18 April 2021
at a good zhi char stall at a coffeeshop in amk
pork chop pai guat wong $10
assam fish head (half a head) $12
below - photos without editing
17 April 2021
Happy 21st Birthday Aidan!
(above) and that's the cake we took from the store!!
we chose the special strawberry cake,
we got the 18cm, $55
(21cm is $65)
Aidan's Bday Lunch
Lunch - pork chops (shoulder butt), ribeye steak and cake!!
ribeye steak - seasoned with salt and black pepper
(we had 2 pcs leftover from before)
fried in a bit of butter, fresh thyme and rosemary
pork chops
we bought around 1.8kg, about $28
there were about 14 - 15 steak pcs
14 April 2021
mummy's apple pie haha she didn't add baking powder and it's like a pudding. very tasty tho! great with vanilla ice cream!
14 apr 2021
lunch & dinner -
grilled oyster sauce chicken wings!!
14 apr 2021
breakfast at telok blangah crescent.
managed to park near market!
13 April 2021
lunch - rice with sambal belachan, fried fish, beef rendang from 628amk and leftover spaghetti
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| 13 april 2021 dinner |
12 April 2021
11 April 2021
fried leftover bee hoon for breakfast.
lunch - no pics
9 & 10 April 2021
lunch - chicken rice from 628 market and fried spring chicken from vincent's amk central
8 & 9 & 10 April 2021
oxtail & beef golden coin soup - no pic
bc beef looks so brown haha it tastes amazing tho!!
pork chop - no pic! LOL
seasoned with salt, pepper, baking powder and crushed fresh garlic
drunken chicken served cold - no pic 😓
boiled chicken drumsticks soaked in chicken stock, soya sauce and shaoxing wine, left in the fridge for a few hours before serving cold (think this dish is an appetiser)
assam pedas ikan pari sting ray
Recipe - Assam Pedas
Rempah
- dried chilli
- fresh red chilli
- belachan - roasted
- red shallots
- garlic
- tumeric (fresh kunyit)
- langkuas or galangal
- serai
- buah keras (candlenut)
- sugar
cooking ingredients
- stingray (ikan pari) or other fish like batang
- assam
- daun laksa (laksa leaves)
- daun kunyit (tumeric leaves)
- torch ginger flower
- veggies - brinjal, lady's fingers, bling bling fruit, tomatoes, pineapples
- salt to taste
- oil for frying rempah & fish
8-10 April 2021
8 april thu
Mapo Toufu - cooked by Jannah for her school program
recipe here:
ref video here:
organic goat feta cheese with cherry tomatoes,
cucumbers and romaine lettuce
8 April 2021
Breakfast porridge
8 April 2021
on rainy mornings or when you just crave for a good bowl of pork porridge, singapore style, you'd wanna just order a bowl with your favourite ingredients.
i like minced pork balls. they're well-seasoned with salt, light soya sauce, roasted/fried tee poh (a type of dried fish) in powder form, sesame oil and maybe a little sugar. i prefer watery porridge while i see many prefer thick porridge, perhaps it's because i'm teochew. i also love to add a runny egg where i break the egg yolk and mix it with my porridge like what you see here. sometimes i add some century egg and/or pork liver and/or tender, seasoned pork slices. omg, how amazing, this looks like a simple bowl but i haven't even finished listing down what else goes into this bowl of porridge! toppings include tung chye, fried crispy shallots (bawang goreng), spring onions, white pepper, yu tiao or yu cha kueh and sometimes a dash of sesame oil. anyone could easily cook this at home but somehow it simply tastes better at the hawker centres or when you tabao/pack from the market!
pork porridge stalls i like are the one from 628 amk, kovan, telok blangah crescent and the stall that used to be at East Coast road - where i've driven 1hr through traffic just for breakfast!
years ago, around 1980's-2010, i would drive all the way to the east area to have pork porridge at a coffeeshop called "Carlton" (one of the old coffeeshops along east coast road, near the catholic church, esso service station and katong bakery - the porridge stall moved once or twice along that stretch of road and the queue always followed LOL. the uncle never talks to anyone, being too busy cooking the porridge. his wife takes the orders and serves the bowls. there's always a long long queue and long wait. sometimes, they get their son to help serve the bowls of hot porridge (their son has down syndrome but is very helpful and pleasant). this stall also specialises in raw fish salad - seasoned very differently from many other stalls. i think they use a lot more raw onions, lime juice and chopped fresh red chillis. sometimes i think uncle uses a splash of tobasco sauce. i do like that they add a mountain of fresh, crisp strips of iceberg lettuce and fresh coriander. oh man, i miss this family's pork porridge and raw fish salad! those were happy days!
managed to get some old photos from the web -
someone had blogged about it,
thank goodness!!
the stall is now closed and i don't think they have moved but have retired.
i can't say enough how much i miss uncle and auntie's porridge and raw fish salad. they have amazing tastes. i've always suspected uncle uses tobasco sauce for his raw fish Lol i will try to make this some time... i think i know how to recreate this salad. but it only tastes a lot better when eaten together with the porridge - i must empty the sweet-sour-slightly spicy sesame dressing from the raw fish salad into the porridge. wow.
photo credits: blog on 冯记 Pang Kee Porridge
blog post dated SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008
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7 April 2021
yesterday i made assam pedas with bling bling fruit from scratch. but i forgot to take a pic ha. so today i took a pic of the gravy... just the gravy man haha. but that gravy is sooooo good with hot rice!
dinner -
roast chicken with corn
(corn from yesterday's big pot of corn soup)
and brinjal in hot chilli and vinegar sauce
6 April 2021 tues
nasi lemak for breakfast at telok blangah.
wanted some pork ball porridge but the queue was super long!
teatime
4 April 2021 Sun & 5 Apr 2021 Mon
breakfast - chwee kueh with chye poh and hae bi chilli sauce
4 & 5 April 2021
dinner -
pork chop with garlic, salt & pepper,
oxtail soup & tomato stew,
veggies,
prawn with tung hoon
bought about 1.5kg oxtail $28 from the wet market
bought about 1.5kg oxtail $28 from the wet market
Recipe - Oxtail
1.5-2kg Oxtail slow cook with
- onions x1 big,
- garlic x1,
- tang gui x1pc,
- raw/brown sugar x1 tbsp,
- salt
- freshly ground white & black pepper corn
- light soya sauce,
(used 2 types of sauces - kikoman fragrant soya sauce & soba soya from diaso)
optional - Oxtail Tomato Stew
after oxtail is fall-off-the-bone soft,
in a hot pan,
use oil from oxtail soup to fry onions and garlic,
add tomato gravy, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms and braise for about 5-10min
add tender oxtail and braise another 5-10min
serve with pasta or garlic/butter toast
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Oxtail - Fall off the bone tender!
Oxtail in Crockpot on high heat for about 4 hours.
you'll have the meat fall off the bone and sooooo tender! you can separate the meat from the bones and then season your meat lightly with salt & pepper, and if you like asian flavours use a little light soya sauce. have your oxtail meat with bread, toast, pasta, steamed rice, noodles or as is.
how to cook this =
Cover oxtail with water, add salt, white & black pepper, whole shallots or onions (basic clear soup recipe), slow cook for a few hours.
to get rid of the oil, refrigerate overnight and throw out the hardened oil the next day. your soup will be oil-free!
oh, and cooking this dish makes your home smell nice too haha!!
enjoy!!
Recipe - Pork Chop
Shoulder butt pork chop - season with
- baking soda x1 full teaspoon
- salt
- white pepper
- light soya sauce
- garlic - freshly pounded into a paste
fry onions till soft, set aside
fry & brown pork chop till cooked
serve hot with fried onions
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| pork chop below fried onions pork seasoned with salt, black pepper, crushed fresh garlic onions are fried with little oil, salt and sugar |
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| cut into cubes - pork chop at bottom of pic |
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| oxtail - the thin, end part (left of bowl) pork chop - cut into cubes (bottom of pic) homemade turnip and bamboo shoots stir fry (popiah filling) |
Happy Birthday Jannah!
Lunch at singapore swimming club
coincidentally we met mama and papa, uncle les & auntie sandra,
jean & her 2 daughters isabella 9yrs, chermaine 7yrs.
3 April 2021 Sat
Dinner - sukiyaki pork, scallops with tung hoon, chicken chop, baby kai lan
don't have all the pics, just a few pics AFTER i ate most of the food! LOL
Recipe
Frozen Hokkaido Scallops with tung hoon
1. Scallops
- defrost, drain liquid.
- season with salt, white pepper, fried garlic oil.
- fry scallops to golden brown
- add shaoxing chinese wine
- stir fry for a few more seconds (high heat)
- set aside scallops
2. in hot oil, fry chopped garlic, red & green chillis, onions till fragrant
3. add light soya sauce and a pinch of sugar. when fragrant, add some water or stock.
(i used lee kum kee seafood sauce as it is pre-mixed. but u can mix your own sauce - see below)
4. add tung hoon into the liquid,
mix till tung hoon is well coated
make sure you mix noodles well with the sauce and noodle is al dente.
set aside.
5. add coriander and lime juice to the tung hoon noodles, mix well.
6. on top of noodles, add fried scallops.
if too dry, add some sauce.
(optional) add lime juice
Serve hot!
pre-mix sauce for frying tung hoon
- light soya sauce,
- fish sauce,
- chopped red and green chillis,
- sugar
re-edited the light for the pic & cropped it...
next time i hope to take a better pic!!
uggh i take really bad pics haha!!
2 April 2021 Good Fri
lunch - no pix
dinner - chicken soup and rice
Recipe!
whole chicken slow cooked in simple soup!
- red dates x8,
- tang gui x2 pcs,
- shallots x3,
- garlic x1,
- salt,
- light soya sauce,
- crushed white pepper corn
below: christen's messy plate!
took a pic of my own rice bowl food but it ended up with a pic of my fingers uggh so NO pic of my bowl haha
2 Apr 2021
after dinner
dessert at thomson road's Belo Cafe
above: mocha $6
Waffle Banoffee $15
Vanilla waffle, single scoop hazelnut ice cream,
salted caramel sauce, caramelized banana,
crushed hazelnut, macaro
Salted Caramel $13
Vanilla waffle, single-scoop salted caramel ice cream,
salted caramel sauce, fresh berries, a macaron
truffle fries $11, tabao for aidan
1 April 2021
Breakfast - masala thosai at telok blangah cresc market - not oily!
dinner - good old macaroni soup!
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