114. Our Food Diary - Jan to March 2024

OUR FOOD DIARY 2024

Jan to March 2024

what we ate from January to March 2024

and here are the star pics!

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no mummy and no helper.

just me trying to go market, plan and cook meals.

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List of what i cooked and enjoyed

- garlic bread and tomato beef, oxtail stew

- beef noodle soup (golden coin) - with recipe

- tomato chicken curry

- boiled chicken with ginger scallion oil and soya sauce mix

- hae mee - prawn noodle soup - with recipe

- soto ayam (or is it ayam soto?) - with recipe

- pig stomach / pig maw soup  - with recipe

- su chye (chinese cabbage stew, teochew style)

- fried crispy tempe

- fried tung hoon - with recipe

- button mushrooms 1kg + 1kg

- baby sotong with squid ink (black sotong) - with recipe

- stingray assam pedas

- stingray kuah lada (alow's recipe but not done correctly) - with recipe

- whitebait fish fried with garlic and limau purut

- steamed chicken with red dates, dang gui, black fungus and cordyceps - with recipe

- stir fried collar pork

- ribeye steak (jannah's 18th bday lunch)

- grilled chicken chop with salt. pepper, light soya sauce and garlic oil

- stie fried chicken thigh pieces with miso

- spaghetti with fresh button mushrooms, onions and tomatoes - with recipe

- CNY cooking - 

https://jt-food.blogspot.com/2024/02/115-cny-2024-year-of-dragon.html

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starting to cook less dishes 

and trying to cook rice only for the day

and not to keep overnight.

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what we ate and cooked in ...

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MARCH 2024

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31 March 2024 Sun

breakfast - had leftovers

lunch - beef soup, broccoli with spaghetti, grilled chicken

tea - ice cream cake for jannah's birthday!

dinner - stir fried miso chicken (weird but quite nice), eggs, fried kuay teow with bean sprouts

below: stir fried chicken with miso

30 March 2024 Sat

we kinda celebrated jannah's bday earlier

went 628 amk market to get steak - 

sirloin but out of stock

so i bought ribeye instead

ribeye x10 pieces $63 @$45/kg

golden coin 4 pieces (about 1.5kg) $30 @$20/kg

total $93

lunch

ribeye steak x8 pcs

- grilled/pan fry, seasoned with salt, black pepper

- sauce - HP, tomato A1 sauce with fried onions

chicken chop x3 huge pcs

- salt, pepper, light soya and garlic flavoured oil

- grilled at about 175 degrees in turbo oven,

grilled for 20-30 min on each side

button mushrooms 1/2 kg 

- stir fried with garlic, salt and butter

spaghetti no5 500g pack 

- fried with broccoli stems and leftover sweet peas

broccoli

roast tomatoes

good friday - 29 March 2024 Fri

breakfast/lunch - leftovers - no energy to cook

dinner - went to prata shop with christen

i had kuay teow goreng, christen ordered plain, egg and butter prata

didn't know butter prata is called planta LOL

tabao naan with butter chicken for aidan and ginger tea for daddy

28 March 2024 Thu

early morning - had fish ball noodles with jannah 

- wrong stall - anyway, tried a new stall and not so nice

dinner - jannah tabao beef rice from Suki-ya and fried chicken, tofu from don don donki

no pics

27 March 2024 Wed

lunch - tabao from 628 market - 

got fish soup for aidan and i had spinach yong tau hu, quite nice!

dinner - cooked tempe, sambal goreng without a rempah and minced pork with broccoli

26 March 2024 Tues

early lunch - leftovers - soooo tasty!

soya bean sprouts, whitebait and smoked duck - no pics

then went work and back for dinner

dinner - jannah and i had this szechuan fried fish - very nice!

25 March 2024 Mon

lunch - leftover smoked duck, whitebait and soya bean sprouts
late afternoon - after collecting meds, antibiotics from ttsh, 

ate some mee siam at Qiji, not bad!

dinner - cooked fried ikan kurau but the skin got stuck in the pan. 

fish was very very nice! but no appetite and weather so hot!!

24 March 2024 Mon

no idea what i ate LOL

23 March 2024 Sat

lunch - spaghetti with button mushrooms, tomatoes and onions

dinner - added more spaghetti to remainder lot, 

also added spinach, carrot and broccoli stems to spaghetti, 

then made mapo tofu and corn, carrot soup (no pics)

and heated leftover ginger chicken (no pics)

Recipe: Spaghetti - Simple

- spaghetti 1/2 packet (500g pack) - boiled in salted water

- fresh button mushrooms - i think i used at least 20 - 25

- fresh tomatoes x3 - cubed

- onions x2 medium or x1 large

- added leftover broccoli cooked in miso soup

1. fry onions till fragrant and soft, add salt

2. add garlic and fry till garlic is fragrant

3. add tomatoes and fry till soft. use a bit of pasta water to soften tomatoes

4. add spaghetti and a bit of pasta water

5. add white/black pepper, light soya sauce and a bit of butter

6. mix well and serve hot

we had our pasta with leftover roast chicken. very tasty!

below: pasta for dinner

below: pasta for lunch

22 March 2024 Fri

lunch - leftover roast chicken, whitebait and miso soup with spinach

dinner - zhi char - mapo tofu, brinjals and baby kailan - so good!

21 March 2024 Thu

breakfast - beehoon dry with fishballs $4

lunch - packed nasi padang - fried tempeh, sambal goreng, fried egg, assam pedas gravy

dinner - met aidan at amk central for zhi char (no pics)

- sambal fried rice, beef hor fun and pork rib king with egg set

20 Mar 2024 Wed

lunch - 

rice with leftover tom yum soup 

and crispy fried whitebait

dinner - 

leftover sar poh fan, 

veggie stew (spinach, brocoli, sio bak, cabbage, sweet peas) 

and roast chicken with honey and black sauce

19 March 2024 Tues

lunch - amk hub - had fried gyoza and ying chun noodle soup

(met william, the founder of First street teochew fish soup - he sold everything to breadtalk)

dinner - sah poh fan

18 March 2024 Mon

no pics

lunch - forgot what and where LOL

think ate leftovers at home :)

dinner - leftovers 

cooked creamy coconut tom yum soup 

with mushrooms, dried whitebait, cabbage and sweet peas

17 March 2024 Sun

lunch - tabao 

white beehoon and fish beehoon soup 

from amk 505, near jamie's flat (so so, not great)

dinner - tabao - no pics

rong ji zhi char northstar - aidan bought

-baby squid, pork chop, sambal kang kong, braised tofu stew

16 March 2024 Sat

lunch - 

bought char siew $5 and sio bak $15 from 628 amk market

and heated up leftover food

dinner -

below: packed for christen (isolation from HFMD)

15 March 2024 Fri

lunch - leftovers + fried more tung hoon for cabbage stir fry

jannah made ham, fried button mushrooms and eggs for breakfast/brunch

dinner - amk central for zhi char - pork ribs and brinjals 红烧

bought from wholesale market

- dried whitebait - indonesia $200 per 100g

- dried whitebait - japan $3.80 per 100g

- dried cordyceps $3.50 

14 March 2024 Thu

went to work and forgot my wallet!! 

so i used cdc vouchers 

and later draw money from ATM using the phone. 

breakfast - $6 fish soup with mee sua and extra veggies

lunch - $3.80 chye peng - egg, mui chye, kai lan 

dinner - $6 pork rib king and rice set

13 March 2024 Wed

lunch - cooked!

- steamed chicken with red dates, dang gui, cordyceps and black fungus

- ginger paste

- chicken rice chilli

- corn and carrot soup

- crispy whitebait fish (still crispy!)

dinner

- stir fried collar pork strips

- cabbage with black fungus and carrots with tung hoon

- leftover stew

- leftover cucumber 

Recipe - Steamed Chicken

- black fungus

- cordyceps (think i used fresh ones)

- ginger, garlic, onions

- dang gui x2-3 pieces

- red dates x4 - seeds removed, cut into halves

- oyster sauce

- light soya sauce

- white pepper

- shaoxing chinese wine

- sugar

1. fry ginger, garlic, onions/spring onions (chopped together)

add shaoxing wine, salt, sugar, light soya sauce,
fry till fragrant, then set aside

for chilli sauce, add fresh red chillis (chopped) 

and fresh lime juice to the ginger mix, cook till fragrant

in the same pan that cooked the ginger paste,

2. fry onions, ginger, garlic and black fungus

3. add water and shaoxing wine (a lot), 

season the stock with oyster sauce, light soya, salt, white pepper, sugar

4. add marinated chicken, dang gui, red dates, cordyceps flower

5. steam till cooked, sprinkle with wolfberries and steam another 1min 

6. serve hot with ginger paste and chilli sauce, steamed fragrant rice

forgot to take a pic before we ate LOL
chicken was so good and the wine made it so fragrant!

below: stir fried marinated pork collar strips 

with garlic, onions, chilli, fresh chinese celery and coriander

12 March 2024 Tues

lunch - woodleigh for fish soup

dinner - cooked - no pics :(

- rice with lap cheong, 

- fried cabbage with tomatoes

- leftover stew

- fried minced chicken with sweet peas

- cucumber and tomatoes

11 March 2024 Mon

lunch - no pics

chye peng - $8.40 x2 packets

jannah and i shared - potatoes with sausages, spinach, brinjal with string beans

christen had - potatoes with sausages, spinach, sweet and sour pork

dinner

- fried mushrooms with garlic and butter

- chicken stew with A1 steak sauce and tomato ketchup

- fried eggs

- cucumber and tomatoes

- leftover sio bak, eggs and beef noodle soup (added more beef balls)

- lots of fruits

below: christen's dinner LOL

10 March 2024 Sun

lunch & dinner - golden coin beef noodle soup

dinner - 

cooked u-mian 

made hot sio bak i bought from 628 amk market on sat

added lion dance brand beef balls (so good!!) $2+

9 March 2024 Sat

8am+ went market to get stuff...

bought beef, noodles, sio bak $10, porridge for aidan and christen

10am - left 4 pieces of golden coin ($31) in the slow cooker

the off to the ntu open house!

after ntu adm open house, went to jurong point for ramen!

so rich, couldn't eat dinner :(

left beef golden coin in the slow cooker but not ready by dinner. so daddy and aidan had to tabao western for themselves and christen (christen in isolation - HFMD)

8 March 2024 Fri

lunch - scrambled eggs with cheese and fried garlic butter mushrooms

i ate the leftover fried rice!

dinner - (think no pics)

chicken soup with rice and leftover nasi briyani

fried white bait fish

cucumber and tomatoes

below: leftover fried rice with crispy whitebait

so good!!

7 March 2024 Thu

breakfast - teochew noodles - ok lah, for $5

lunch - red bean kueh

dinner - tekka market - tandoori tikka and naan - not so nice

6 March 2024 Wed

still sick :(

aidan is sick too :(

lunch - 

miso soup with leftover corn soup, 

leftover roast chicken

dinner - 

bought 1kg white button mushrooms from ntuc $14

so made mushroom miso soup, 

fried white / silver bait 300g $15,

minced pork patties 170g ntuc, 

fried rice with crispy whitebait oil,

leftover su chye

5 March 2024 Tues

very sick but still went to see daddy's doctor at chinatown for regular consult

lunch - indian food

dinner -

- mummy's honey roast chicken (the other half)

- su chye - chinese cabbge with dried scallops, tau kee, oyster sauce, salt and pepper

- long beans with eggs and chye poh

4 March 2024 Mon

unwell - runny nose, sneezing, sore throat

very sick by dinner - took yellow pill and danzen

lunch - grouper soup (nice!) $10 + $1 rice

snack before cooking dinner - polar chicken pie with jamie's chilli sauce

dinner - cooked meat from ntuc woodleigh

roast chicken - half, 

corn carrot soup (nice!)

scrambled eggs (used 6 eggs)

stir fried string beans with garlic

cucumber tomato iceberg lettuce salad

fried leftover bee hoon with salt, pepper, oyster sauce and soya sauce

3 March 2024

dinner - zhi char from rong ji, northstar

pork rib king $12

sambal sweet potato leaves $12

tofu fried $10

fu yong omelette $10

4 rice $4

total $48

1 March 2024 Fri

dinner - cooked soto ayam

started around 6pm, finished cooking almost 9pm!!

2-3 March 2024 Sat & Sun

ate soto again and again

sooooo good!!

1 March 2024 Fri

lunch - 628 market - had nasi padang

potatoes, brinjal, sambal goreng, fried egg $3.80

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FEBRUARY 2024

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29 Feb 2024 Thu

lunch - ikea beef cheeks, spring rolls, meatballs, choc cake, tea

dropped jamie at airport around 2pm

dinner - daddy and i had dinner out (will add when i remember!)

(was at nafa and waited till daddy finished his physio)

ok! for dinner 

had redhill88 teochew noodles at plaza sing - no pics

28 Feb 2024 Wed

lunch - zuzu kebab - 

bbq lamb and chicken salad - so good!

dinner 

- assam pedas with ladysfinger and stingray

- jamie's thai sausage from chiang mai 

(nice! tastes like tom yum flavour)

- fried chinese cabbage

- fried kiam chye

- fried leftover chicken rice with garlic and olive veggies

27 Feb 2024 Tues

had an online meeting and worked at home

lunch - leftover tung hoon, smoked duck and rice (so good!)

dinner - mongkok dim sum at upper thomson

- pai guat wong / pork ribs king M $15

- sambal sweet potato leaves M $15

- beef with kai lan S$12

- crispy noodle with seafood S $7

- beef hor fun S $8 

(we ordered small but they gave a medium and charged for small)

- watercress sai yon choi soup $6.80 (nice!)

- 2 rice

26 Feb 2024 Mon

breakfast/lunch - sengkang hospital - 

the foodcourt is really interesting and not bad LOL

daddy and jamie had western breakfast

i had the beef pho with plenty of spinach - again. but so good!

dinner

- fried tung hoon with prawns, fresh scallops and eggs (yum!)

- stir fried batang fish xi chap sauce

- leftover yu sheng salad

- smoked duck - always nice with rice!

Recipe - Fried Tung Hoon

1. soak tung hoon in room temp water (not hot water)

2. fry eggs (partially cooked), set aside

partially cook prawns and scallops in a broth, set aside

3. fry garlic in oil, add prawns and scallops

4. season with 

oyster sauce, 

light soya sauce, 

chinese shaoxing wine 

optional - add sesame oil for flavour 

(in today's recipe, i did not add sesame oil)

optional - a pinch of sugar 

(food will taste better with a bit of sugar)

5. add the tung hoon and fry. add some broth if too dry

6. top with chopped coriander, spring onions, chillis

(today - no spring onions or coriander, and too lazy to cut chillis)

7. serve hot

 

Recipe - Batang Stir Fry Xi Chap style

1. season batang

- salt, white pepper,

- light soya sauce, 

- fresh chopped ginger, 

- shaoxing wine, 

- cornflour

2. cook batang in broth, set aside

3. fry onions, ginger, garlic, chilli, salted black beans (chopped) till fragrant

4. add shaoxing wine, oyster sauce, light soya sauce

add a bit of broth if a bit too dry

5. add fish and stir carefully (don't break the fish)

6. mix well and serve hot

if colour too light, add a bit of dark soya sauce.

25 Feb 2024 Sun

DAY AFTER CHAP GOH MEH!!

lunch - made fish soup with batang, fresh scallops, grey prawns + sng mi chou

dinner - chicken rice and Yu Sheng at ko ko's house

below: yu sheng pickles pack bought from NTUC ( $15 - $16 )

and CNY ends, 

another cny is over Lol

09 Feb to 24 Feb 2024 

CNY Reunion and DAY 1 to DAY 15

see - https://jt-food.blogspot.com/2024/02/115-cny-2023-year-of-dragon.html 

6 Feb 2024 Tues

wow, i prep'ed food all day.

morning 

- ntuc and market to get cny ingredients

- then clean leeks, coriander, limau purut, turmeric 

- peeled and minced fresh garlic

- defrosted chicken 2kg, minced pork 2kg, cuttlefish paste, prawns, crab meat....

- defrosted the rempahs, water chestnut

- seasoned and boiled pork ribs from market 2kg

preparing to cook

- chicken sioh

- buah keluak pork ribs

- bakwan kepiting - crab meatballs

wed must cut bamboo shoots and mix the meatballs,

make fresh rempah if not enough... uggh

also had to do other things while jannah did her chem experiment with cooking oil Lol

dinner - roast chicken prepared on sat, fried leftover chicken from chicken rice, fried leftover pork and chicken with lao gan ma sauce mix, fried broccoli and carrots with black fungus... 

so tired!

below:

2kg pork ribs $20

2kg pork minced $11-$12 ntuc offer

2kg chicken boneless thigh $9 ntuc offer

1 packet cuttlefish paste $8-$10

2 packets peeled crab meat $12-$15 ntuc offer

1.5kg fresh tiger prawns - around $25, around $16/kg before price rise for cny

5 Feb 2024 Mon

went eye centre so had lunch at people's park. 

my lunch was tomato eggs and rice. 

daddy had hk noodles with char siew sio bak.

and tabao food from people's park at around 5pm+

- chicken rice from boon heng

- hor fun (cantonese style) - got wok hey!

- daddy got rendang chicken

4 Feb 2024 Sun

lunch - grilled honey chicken, sweet peas, ladysfingers with sambal belacan

dinner - boiled pork collar and pork belly with lao gan ma chilli sauce mix, 

chicken with sweet peas, boiled broccoli and carrots

recipe - lao gan ma chilli sauce mix

- lau gan ma chilli crisps

- chopped fresh ginger and garlic

- chopped coriander and spring onions (from my plants) 

- light soya sauce

- black vinegar

- sesame oil

3 Feb 2024 Sat

breakfast - ate leftover rice with brinjal, tau yew bak, prawn tofu

lunch - hong kong shrimp noodle with korean dumplings

dinner - grilled honey chicken, 

tom yum soup with batang fish and coconut milk, 

leftover tau yew bak/brinjal/tofu

2 Feb 2024 Fri

lunch - aunty's noodle - again! 

when i reached the stall, aunty wasn't there. uncle told me it's gonna take some time, 15min. so i said ok and he barked at me to sit down. i sat and 10min later, i realised i haven't told him my order and aunty's not back yet. so i went up to him and ask him if he knew my order. he said like "duh... and go sit down!" true enough, my order is exactly what he had been serving me for over 10 years! wow

dinner - ended class late

went amk central with daddy to eat zhi char but the china stall was closed. we went to blk 722 to have zhi char - had beef bittergourd xi chap and pai guat wong (pork ribs king). 

got our food around 9.20-9.30pm, good dinner! 

or maybe i was super hungry!

1 Feb 2024 Thu

breakfast - noodles (aunty going to retire after cny)

lunch - mi jiang kueh red bean 

dinner - rice with kai lan, mo kuei (melon), scrambled eggs and. kung bao chicken $5.80 - i didn't like the chicken... too tasteless. daddy couldn't chew so he had porridge with the best yu cha kueh i've ever had! so fragrant and crispy!

below: jelly given by my student DM1F he xi - gesture's so sweet!

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JANUARY 2024

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31 Jan 2024 Wed

breakfast - fried beehoon with soto ayam soup (half a rice bowl) 

and chicken from soto cooked earlier

dinner - made some food that is "soft" since daddy had a problem tooth

- tofu with prawns

- brinjals

- leftover tau yew bak

30 Jan 2024 Tues

happy birthday to me!

morning had a med appt with prof leo

lunch - people's park - knife cut noodle in beef soup

horror of horrors, i added too much chilli and i almost couldn't handle the spiciness! and i surprised myself by finishing the whole bowl! (went shopping with jannah afterwards)

dinner - thai food at nummum thomson road

crab omelette

grilled sotong

thai pork satay

deep fried fish thai style

tom yum soup

more info about the stall at people's park...

below: thai food at nummum

29 Jan 2024 Mon

went to giant and ikea for lunch

bought pork belly and some huge prawns

dinner - tau yew bak with eggs and mixed mee goreng

surprisingly, the laksa noodle was very tasty and had a very nice bite.

28 Jan 2024 Sun

went 628 amk market to get noodles and tau geh / bean sprouts + fried onions $5

also bought grey prawns $30 ($22/kg)

and baby squid - tiny $6

baby squid medium - $9 for half kg

coriander (wang sui) and chinese celery (kng chye) $1

lunch/dinner 

- ayam soto

- assam squid with black squid ink

- steamed baby squid - later fried it with garlic

below from wet market at 628 amk

prawns + 2 types of baby squid

- tiny baby squid $6

- baby squid medium $9 half kg

- grey prawns $22/kg bought $30

managed to save like 2 ink sacs to use the squid ink!

i kinda broke the rest of the sacs and lost the ink!

Recipe - Squid Ink Assam Sotong

1. fry garlic onions red/green chillis, serai, limau purut

2. fry sotong and add squid ink

3. add assam, sugar, black soya sauce, pepper

cook, season to taste and serve hot with rice and sambal belacan!

Recipe - Mama's (woodlands) Black Sotong Recipe

1. small onion and garlic fry until fragrant

2. knock the lemongrass and fry together

3. put sotong in and assam (dont need put water)

later i found aunty sylvia tan's insta post on squid ink dish

27 Jan 2024 Sat

breakfast/lunch - shared aidan's korean instant noodle and christen's stew and rice

went to woodleigh to get a chicken and some groceries for cny, like bamboo shoots

lunch at 4.30-5pm - tabao lams noodle and salt baked chicken

dinner - salt baked chicken and rice and leftover broccoli

no pics

26 Jan 2024 Fri

lunch - yummy rice - $3.80 - tofu with leeks, kiam chye, mo kuei melon stir fry

dinner - western from amk central - chicken chop with pasta

25 Jan 2024 Thu

breakfast - aunty's fishball noodles 

(she'll retire after cny, i've been having her noodles for over 10 years!)

lunch - red bean mi chiang kueh

dinner - liver and pork ball kiam chye soup with rice, 

bought lotus root soup and chye peng for jannah

(chye peng - scrambled eggs + mo kuei melon stir fry + fried cabbage = $3.80)

no pics

24 Jan 2024 Wed

lunch - had indian veggie rice set at jalan kayu - not bad

dinner - cooked broccoli and heated remainder food. also made instant noodles to go with the mala soup coz leftover rice looks little. also heated the leftover kuah lada, pig stomach kiam chye soup, chicken stew.

23 Jan 2024 Tues

lunch - tabao from nasi padang shop in fortune centre

they said $5 minimum and charged me $5.80 for this lot.

this is one nasi padang stall that i feel bad eating from...

must remember not to go there again.

dinner - 

cooked chicken stew, baby kai lan,

leftover pig stomach soup, 

leftover mala soup

21 Jan 2024 Sun

good mood the cook!

made prawn noodle soup and kuah lada

22 Jan 2024 Mon 

- leftover prawn noodles

kuah lada

some photos missing some ingredients coz i forgot to place it to take photos Lol

20 Jan 2024 Sat

after fetching christen from bedok camp, went to amk hub to buy some food - ended up with a huge bill LOL i bought:

- stingray @$24.90/kg - $24.10

- white snapper x1 - $12.41

- tiger prawns @ $12.90/kg - bought $21.40

- pork ribs - on sale - $10.85 for 1kg

- 1 whole chicken

- pig stomach / pig maw (cooked) - $4.65

20 Jan Sat cont'd

morning - cooked pig stomach and pork rib soup and prepared the prawns for CNY - chopped and peeled prawns for bakwan, cleaned the stingray, snapper, chicken and pork for cooking...

then rush rush to amk for the edusave award ceremony

snack at 2pm - fried bee hoon and pandan chiffon cake at edusave award

4pm - sukiya gyudon and karaage - with jac and jannah

too full for dinner

19 Jan 2024 Fri

lunch - leftover turmeric chicken and rice

jannah had korean food at fortune centre before we went for NAFA open house

dinner - tabao tandoori and naan, dosai masala

18 Jan 2024 Thu

breakfast- noodles from regular stall - aunty going to retire after cny this year :((((

lunch - red bean kueh

dinner - liver and pork ball kiam chye soup - so good! chilli was v v good too

17 Jan 2024 Wed

lunch - amk 603 - korean bbq chicken (not spicy) and beehoon goreng

dinner - grilled turmeric lime chicken, cucumber, fried eggs and leftover patties

bought frozen blueberries and strawberries,

ntuc finest, seletar mall

$15 for 1kg packs

16 Jan 2024 Tues

lunch - tabao from whampoa after blood tests at ttsh (no pics)

fish soup with laksa beehoon, nasi lemak and white carrot cake

dinner - loy kee chicken rice from whampoa

1/2 roast + 1/2 white chicken = $26

chicken rice x4 packets

15 Jan 2024 Mon

lunch - thomson plaza - chye peng

dinner - grilled chicken thighs and miso soup with white radish/carrot, wakame and leftover duck! (no pics but it looks amazing since the roast duck and white carrots in miso actually looks very pretty!

below: seaweed / wakame for miso soup, $2 at daiso

12 Jan Fri

lunch - cooked smoked duck, heated roasted duck from ntuc 

and cooked broccoli with mushrooms and omelette/scrambled eggs

(also ran out of gas! and then rushed to work after cooking)

14 Jan 2024 Sun

lunch - patties & leftover broccoli, leftover duck

dinner - tabao fried rice and har cheong gai (no pics)

13 Jan 2024 Sat

chong boon market, amk

batang and red grouper fish soup with pork meatballs $12

shared with jannah. v nice!

dinner - tabao western from amk central

11 Jan 2024 Thu

usual noodles at albert market - 

aunty says she'll retire CNY this year :((((

10 Jan 2024 Wed

amk hub - u mien $5.50 - ok lah

8 Jan 2024 Mon

Lunch - cooked for aidan and me

fried eggs & stir fried cabbage

poured some chicken curry gravy over my rice.... wah, sooooo nice!!

dinner - aston's salad buffet with "meet but dunno when" haha

hwi ching had covid but didn't check till next day 

8-9 Jan 2024 Mon/Tues

made sambal belacan with jannah

and chopped garlic when free

7 Jan 2024 Sun

lunch - boiled chicken with ginger scallion oil and soya sauce mix

i had bee hoon soup :)))

dinner - roast chicken and leftover boiled chicken, soup

Recipes 

Boiled Chicken with Ginger Scallion Oil

1. boil chicken in a pot of water, add ginger, onions/spring onions

season water with salt, white pepper, shaoxing wine and light soya sauce (1-2 tbsp)

2. remove chicken and add soya sauce mix + ginger scallion oil

Soya Sauce Mix - boil and pour over boiled chicken

- light soya

- oyster sauce

- shaoxing chinese wine

- garlic oil

- water / stock

Ginger Scallion Oil - fry and pour over boiled chicken

- aromatics mix - chop ginger, onions, spring onions, fresh coriander, garlic (little)

- add salt and sugar

- heat up oil and fry aromatics mix till fragrant

- set aside as a topping for boiled chicken

6 Jan 2024 Sat

lunch - woodleigh for fish soup - bought 2 chickens, honey and black pepper from ntuc

dinner - jalan kayu - naan for me, tandoori naan set for christen, masala thosai for daddy

5 Jan 2024 Fri

lunch 

- leftover tempe, soya sauce black fungus chicken 

with leftover curry with hard boiled egg 

- aidan and kristy made udon with miso soup and korean dumplings

dinner 

for daddy christen and me

- leftover food - soya sauce chicken, broccoli, curry and su chye

4 jan 2024 Thu

lunch - leftover curry is thicker today!

added boiled eggs into the curry

dinner - cooking before kyi kyi comes to clean on fri LOL

broccoli

soya sauce chicken with black fungus

fried tempe!

leftover su chye, egg curry

and leftover laksa noodle boiled in miso soup (very nice!)

dinner

3 Jan 2024

lunch - tiong bahru market with daddy and aidan

had pig's organ soup with kiam chye

dinner - su chye, minced chicken, fried eggs and leftover curry

2 Jan 2024

lunch - ramen with jannah at amk

dinner - chicken curry and garlic bread

1 Jan 2024

lunch - cooked spaghetti for the christen and aidan

(jannah sleepover at hansee's house)

changi beach club (raining)

- snakehead fish with bittergourd, 

- crispy fried whitebait, 

- black hokkien noodles with lard, 

- pork ribs, 

- fish maw soup

dinner

after lunch, went to giant and got some veggies and bread, croissant

had garlic bread and tomato beef, oxtail stew for dinner