119. Our Food Diary - Jan to March 2025

Our Food Diary

Jan to March 2025

Star Dishes & New Dishes I Cooked

cooking is quite a challenge!

working these few months and so exhausted these days.

also have pilate class on mondays 9-10pm

sometimes forget to take photos too,

wonder why - since i have the habit of taking pics all these years...

so below are quick photos of food on days i remember to take photos for my food journal.

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March 2025

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31 March 2025

30 March 2025

29 March 2025

tried to cook pork chops LOL

27 March 2025

knife cut noodles with homemade chilli sauce,

using lao gan ma garlic crisp chilli paste

26 march 2025

grilled turmeric chicken and fried kailan

25 march 2025

lunch at work...

malay food lunch from fortune centre

24 march 2025

tabao

chicken rice from 628 market

carrot cake

23 march 2025

22 march 2025

jannah's banana blueberry yoghurt ice cream

with cornflakes LOL

jac gave me a shogun wok, non stick

but i already bought the tefal wok

22 March 2025

chong boon market - bak kut teh

21 March 2025

vegetarian - chicken wan tan mee

from fortune centre

9 march 2025

yishun northpoint - grouper soup

8 March 2025

pork stew and fried kang kong

7 March 2025

fried fish - uggh, it keeps sticking to the pan and breaking into pieces!

5 March 2025

veggie rolls!

Recipe - Veggie Beancurd Rolls

1. fry (separately)

a. fresh prawns with garlic

for these rolls, i used prawn balls

b. veggies

season with salt, white pepper, light soya, oyster sauce and sesame oil

- shredded carrots, 

- black fungus, 

- bamboo shoots, 

- dried chinese mushrooms 

- spring onions (today i used spring onions from the garden)

- optional - cabbage

2. prepare beancurd skin

3. roll cooked veggies with beancurd skin

4. grill the veggie rolls

5. make the gravy

- dark soya sauce, oyster sauce, sugar shaoxing chinese wine and sesame oil

6. add tbe gravy to the rolls and steam

7. serve hot with steamed rice

grilled the rolls before steaming with gravy

scrambled eggs with bamboo shoots, black fungus, carrots

- remainder veggies from the veggie rolls 

5-6 March 2025

scrambled eggs with bamboo shoots, black fungus, carrots

- remainder veggies from the veggie rolls 

5 march 2025

western food at old airport road - $13

chicken, pork and lamb chop with fried egg, coleslaw, fries and bread

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February 2025

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27 feb 2025

26 feb 2025

kampong admiralty

sushi popiah and prawn noodles

25 feb 2025 - amk central zhi char

24 feb 2024 - fried rice

24 feb 2025

amk hub coffeeshop - noodles

23 feb 2025

23 feb 2025

amk central zhi char

22 feb 2025

22 feb 2025

a pot of curry! so good!

think this is japanese curry Lol

21 feb 2025

tabao for dinner

fortune centre - new station zhi char shop

21 Feb 2025

fortune centre - dumpling and noodle shop

fortune centre - dumpling and noodle shop

20 Feb 2025

cooked at home

20 feb 2025

18 Feb 2025

tabao for dinner from boon keng - noodles and dumplings

18 feb 2025

tracy's mushroom udon

so good!

17 feb 2025

17 feb 2025

bibimbap at amk hub

16 feb 2025

edna's kachama

chicken with motherwort herb

16 feb 2025

15 feb 2025

sambal goreng

14 feb 2025

lunch at the singapore swimming club with ah liang and doris, hui tzur didi

13 feb 2025

omg i miss macaroni soup!

13 Feb 2025

12 Feb 2025

12 Feb 2025

kampong admiralty

yong tau foo - very nice

11 Feb 2025

dinner - tabao from boon keng market

dumplings and noodles (la mien)

11 feb 2025

zhi char at fortune centre - new station cafe

10 feb 2025

9 Feb 2025

8 Feb 2025

fried mee goreng

8 Feb 2025

suddenly craving for homemade pancakes!

6 Feb 2025

lunch - tabao from fortune centre

4 Feb 2025

lunch at new station, fortune centre

with jannah

3 Feb 2025

daddy's western food at old airport road

3 Feb 2025

forgot where i bought this prawn noodles

think it's at old airport road

3 Feb 2025

ming fa noodles at sin ming

jannah bought cake for me

1 Feb 2025

1 Feb 2025

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January 2025

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31 Jan 2025

tabao from upper thomson mongkok dim sum

31 Jan 2025

30 Jan 2025

cny makan at home

28 Jan 2025

mushroom udon at fortune centre

26 Jan 2025 Sun

7am onwards - 

defrosted the ingredients for bakwan kepiting,

cooked chicken feet soup with 2 red dates,

then combined and seasoned the ingredients: - 

- minced pork 1.5 kg

- sotong paste x1 packet

- prawn paste x2 packets (triangle type)

- peeled fresh prawns x1 packet

- bamboo shoots

- water chestnuts

brunch - chong boon market

bak kut teh and grey mullet

dropped off bak kut teh at ko ko's house

cooked lunch (with jannah and christen's help)

- chicken feet soup

- chai poh omelette with spring onions

- otah

- rice

then cooked these dishes with jannah's help

- bakwan kepiting

- sioh

- crab omelette with carrots and french beans

- belacan fried rice

- fried tempeh

25 Jan 2025 Sat

started preparing meals for cny eve and cny day1.

- sambal belacan

- sioh rempah + marinade chicken

lunch/dinner

- steamboat for lunch and dinner - since no time to cook!

- aidan, christen and jannah helped to prepare lunch 

while i prepare the sambal belacan and sioh rempah to season the chicken.

24 Jan 2025 Fri

working all day ... so tired!!

and had a bad tummy pain so took simple food!

breakfast - ham and egg sandwich (4 seasons cafe, fortune centre)

lunch - yong tofu with rice (fortune centre)

dinner - steamboat at home! 

(we had steamboat for next day's lunch and dinner too! cos i was cooking)

- iberico pork collar shabu shabu (chef brand)

- pork ball

- beef ball

- sotong ball

- prawn and fish roe ball

- beancurd roll with fish paste

- spinach, tang or, broccoli and eggs

23 Jan 2025 Thu

8am - shop at ntuc amk hub

breakfast at malaysia boleh

lunch - ate leftover ginger chicken and thai sauce (many days already)

aidan came home from vietnam then

went to the wake with aidan

dinner - had diarrhea and but tummy pain

22 Jan 2025 Wed

morning - sgh, eye centre

lunch at sgh food court

daddy had mee siam, i ate longtong

4pm people's park 

- pork rib spicy noodles 

6.30 - 9pm papa's wake :(

with daddy and jannah

20 Jan 2025

lunch - ttsh malay food

soto $4.50

sambal goreng $2

dinner - made more soup!

leftover ginger chicken, 

stir fried chicken breast,

lotus root peanut soup

21 Jan 2025 - leftover soup

20 Jan 2025

brunch at ttsh

19 Jan 2025 Sun

went to hdb flat - new queen bed delivery

lunch - kampung admiralty - chye peng

17 Jan 2025

lunch - chong boon market

bak kut teh, pork trotters, tau chye

also had bak chor mee

15 Jan 2025 Wed

steamboat and yu sheng / lo hei at joey's house to celebrate cny and my birthday!

14 Jan 2025 Tues

cooked broccoli and pork belly shabu shabu slices

and had some leftover beef soup

13 Jan 2025

aidan bought some broccoli after visiting papa and mama in woodlands.

(papa went hospital for stones in gall bladder)

12 Jan 2025 Sun

cooked oxtail soup & beef golden coin,

fried eggs and french beans, 

leftover sio bak, char siew and spinach with mushrooms

11 Jan 2025 Sat

cooking for aidan and kristy

chicken wings, 

spinach with mushrooms, 

char siew sio bak

10 Jan 2025 Fri

met dennis teo and family at fortune centre

for coffee/tea and kaya toast

had 2 eggs

ate some cantonese gnao lam beef brisket noodles

then went airport to drive aidan home

aidan is home after 5-6 months in Canada & USA!!

dinner - tabao from casuarina

ha cheong gai

beef hor fun

salted fish fried rice

8 Jan 2025

lunch - leftovers

eating stingray and pork trotters

7 Jan 2025

chong boon market amk

fish soup with fish roe!

6 Jan 2025

cooked stingray!!

used the rempah i made long ago - 

the 1st time making kuah lada after so long...

5 Jan 2025

lunch - nam kee chicken rice, 

kangkong, hainanese pork chop

dinner - cooked 

corn beef, salmon, eggs

4 Jan 2025

buffet lunch at the club

with liang, doris, hui tzur didi and sabrina

4 Jan 2025

made otah and leftover veggies and eggs for christen

3 Jan 2025

breakfast - jannah fried udon with spinach and eggs

salmon - took some out for dinner

lunch - chong boon market with daddy and jannah

- bcm noodles

- bak kut teh and mustard greens (tua chye)

3 Jan 2025

salmon for dinner!

3 Jan 2025

lunch at chong boon market amk

2 Jan 2025 

dinner - cooked rochor mee with leftover prawn soup

2 Jan 2025 lunch

chinatown, smith street