121. Our Food Diary - April to June 2025

Our Food Diary

April to June 2025

Star Dishes & New Dishes I Cooked

cooking can be tiring!

working these few months (till early May)

and so exhausted these days.

also have pilate class on mondays 9-10pm (Feb to Apr 2025)

later pilate classes changed to wednesdays 7.45pm (from May 2025)

sometimes forget to take photos too,

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

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what i cooked this quarter:

- carrot cake with cream cheese dressing

- lemon butter cake

- salted black olive fried rice with minced pork

- cucumber, pineapple, onion archar

- egg mayo sandwiches

- roast chicken and salad wraps

- fried mee suah with prawns (dry mee suah)

- sambal stingray and sambal kangkong (same sambal)

- prawns with french beans, long beans, garlic sprouts/stems

- grilled squid/sotong with salt and pepper

- tau cheo pork

- sliced pork with french beans and garlic stems

- spinach with century eggs and salted eggs

- simple garlic veggies - chye sim, kailan, spinach, cabbage

- corn beef (omg, so good!)

- steamboat

- fish curry (white snapper from ntuc)

- salmon

- kuah lada

- pork lada with bamboo shoots and daikon

- chicken macaroni soup

- spaghetti - mushrooms and tomatoes

- chicken - roast, black sauce with ginger, porridge, stew

- knife cut noodles

- beef in red wine tomato sauce

- pork twee bak in tomato rosemary and thyme gravy

tabao / eating out

- aston's salad buffet

- black chicken herbal soup

- tandoori, naan (riverwalk and tekka shah's tandoor)

- turkish food (zuzu, serangoon gardens market)

- singapore swimming club

- el carbon grilled chicken with olio aglio

- kueh chap (giant, bishan)

- nasi padang

- mee siam (Qiji)

- bcm, wan tan mee, soup noodles

chong boon's bcm, wan tan mee is good

amk central bcm/soup noodles is good too

- sar poh fan (malaysia boleh)

- bak kut teh, pork trotters, steamed grey mullet (chong boon amk)

- prawn noodles (old airport road)

- chicken rice, char siew sio bak rice, porridge (628 market)

- ikea beef cheeks, baked chicken leg, spring rolls

- giant - mutton briyani, masala chicken

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

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JUNE 2025

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26 June to 29 June - Bangkok

29 June to 30 June - Khao Yai

food pix1 - https://jt-write.blogspot.com/2025/07/42-aj-meet-but-dunno-when-2025-all-pics.html

food pix2 - https://ajc-86.blogspot.com/2025/07/bangkok-khaoyai-2025.html

20 June 2025

lunch - mee suam at rempah SGH - no pics

late lunch - beef horfun at chun kee, hk street at tanglin/Commonwealth

dinner - tabao fish beehoon soup and homemade fried beancurd

19 June 2025

breakfast - no pics

daddy ate chicken rice

i had fish soup with rice

lunch - 

made a gravy to pour over ipoh kuay teow

then jannah made some fruit smoothie

mine had no mulk and tastes like ice cream!

banana, strawberry, blueberries

dinner - grilled salmon

daddy's had salt, pepper, mirin and garlic flavoured oil

our salmon had some soya sauce added to the basic marinade

salmon grilled for about 10-12min, 180 degrees

added my homecooked chicken rice chilli...

18 June 2025

lunch - no pics

i had fish soup and noodles

daddy had chicken rice and jannah had kaya toast with eggs

dinner - spent 4 hours cooking macaroni soup

also had ipoh hor fun and mee suah

so good!

and made my own chicken rice chilli.

17 June 2025

lunch - chicken rice, 628 amk - no pics

dinner

- steamed pork with tung chye

- pan fried squid and shelled prawns

- garlic stems with prawns

daddy had steamed minced pork with ti poh powder, 

soft tofu and 2 prawns (salt and pepper, no veggies to prepare for colonoscopy)

17 June 2025

Recipe - Grilled Squid/Sotong with Salt & Pepper

1. season squid/shelled prawns with:

- oil (i used garlic flavoured and olive oil)

- salt

- white and black pepper

- chilli powder/flakes

2. pan fry at high heat

(charcoal bbq is most ideal)

3. serve hot, 

squeeze some lime/lemon juice on the squid/sotong

(today i used lime juice)

ref: https://youtu.be/JkSBbpUMRIc?si=bRwE1DmiSvphdJb_

16 June 2025

dinner

- mama's roast pork

- leftover roast chicken cooked by jannah

- leftover salmon and fried kai lan with mushrooms from day before

also heated the fried mee suah for dinner but aidan said 

he wanted to bring it to work the next day LOL

i added left over roast chicken into the noodles

15 June 2025

lunch - singapore swimming club chinese restaurant

- brinjal in claypot

- deep fried croaker fish

- sweet and sour pork

- tofu (looks like toys LOL)

- whitebait

- roast meats x3. -duck, sio bak, char siew

- fried mee suah

dinner 

- mama cooked pork porridge with century eggs

- i cooked salmon and kailan with oyster mushrooms

lunch - jade pheonix with dio dio and koko

good teapot... where can i buy one?

14 June 2025

lunch - bcm at chong boon

at home, jannah roasted a chicken and i made archar for lunch

(aidan, christen and jannah - they almost finished the chicken!)

dinner - 

macs spicy chicken burger

and fried mee sua noodles (3 pcs of noodles)

oh, i don't have a pic of noodles with less ingredients LOL...

Sapo Mee Sua $3/pack from Chong Boon Market, rabbitcat brand

5 pcs of fried noodles per pack

below: christen's messy plate LOL 

13 June 2025 fri

lunch - red star (father's day) - no pics

- steamed chicken and ham

- scrambled eggs with sharks fin in lettuce cups

- duck noodles

- dim sum - siew mai, ha kaw, steamed beancurd roll, pork ribs, char siew soh, egg tarts, porridge, chee cheong fun, roast char siew and sio bak (i ate only one beancurd roll and 1/2 of one chee cheong fun noodle Lol)

dinner - cooked

grilled salmon in miso and soba sauce

with leftover veggies and minced pork

grilled salmon 180 degrees for 10-12min

12 June 2025

dinner - cooked

- leftover abc soup

- minced pork with assam and black sauce

- stir fried kangkong and string beans

- fried eggs

lunch - bishan j8 - no pics

chicken soup and rice

11 June 2025

kuching laksa

https://jt-write.blogspot.com/2025/06/186-5-eat-eat-potluck-lunches.html

10 June 2025

brunch at kovan 

curry rice $4.60, no meat

dinner

- assam sotong

- fried eggs

- french beans with fish cakes

- tempe

brunch at kovan

9 June 2025

lunch - kuay chap at giant

8 June 2025

lunch - mapo tofu at amk central

dinner - steamed chicken with ham

7 June 2025

brunch - 628 amk - no pics

porridge with egg and century egg

dinner - olive fried rice

fried cauliflower

leftover roast chicken and minced pork

Recipe - Thai Olive Rice

1. fry 4-6 eggs, set aside

2. fry garlic, onions with black olives x4-x6 pcs (remove pit)

3. add minced pork, fry together

4. add chopped veggies - i used french beans, carrots and kailan

5. add rice, fried eggs and fry together

6. season with pepper, salt, oyster sauce, light soya, fish sauce

7. fry and plate

8. serve with

- raw onions, 

- fresh big / small limes, 

- cut red chilli / chillipadi 

- toasted cashew nuts

6 June 2025

breakfast - whampoa economy beehoon 

(now so bland compared to before)

lunch - amk hub food court

black chicken herbal soup with rice

dinner - jalan kayu 

prata and masala chicken - no pics

5 June 2025

lunch - leftovers

- boiled beansprouts seasoned with salt and sesame oil

- braised beancurd with leeks and prawn balls

4 June 2025

lunch - ikea - no pics

daddy had beef cheeks $16, 

i had baked chicken leg $9.90

enjoyed spring rolls too! $1.80 for 2 pcs.

dinner - from giant tampines!

tabao mutton briyani $6.50 

and chicken masala $4 

below: what i read on Insta

3 June 2025

lunch - old airport road

around 4pm

had prawn noodle soup

then tabao egg tarts

dinner - wraps with roast chicken and boiled eggs

think aidan loved the wraps!

i had rice

and i made my simple archar!

below: my simple archar

cucumber, pineapples, onions

seasoned with salt, lime juice and sugar

2 June 2025

lunch - cooked more mee sua Lol

that's it, i think i've had enough mee sua for now

dinner

- put chicken and pork balls into the bak kut teh soup

- braised tau kuah with prawn balls and chinese leeks

- leftover pork (too sweet!)

- leftover rice and noodles

1 June 2025

Sapo Mee Sua $3/pack from Chong Boon Market

lunch - chong boon market amk - $49

bak kut teh, pork trotters, 

mustard greens, pork skin, beancurd skin 

and steamed grey mullet fish

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MAY 2025

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30 May 2025

ttsh for blood tests and bone mass density scan

nasi padang at ttsh $5.50

dinner - astons with AJ, novena

29 May 2025

dinner

- grilled salmon head and bones with taucheo

-  fried macaroni

- jannah's fried pork slices with garlic stems

salmon head and bones with 

taucheo mix that i made 1 year ago LOL

the taucheo sauce was very very tasty!

not sure if i can recreate the same tastiness again.

fried up the leftover macaroni - no more chicken :(

jannah cooked stir fried pork slices

i added the garlic stems and carrots the next day

28 May 2025

dinner

before pilate class, 1 must have my macaroni soup!

jannah cooked stir fried pork slices for everyone's dinner

27 May 2025

lunch - ikea (love this menu)

- beef cheeks $16

- roast chicken $10

- spring rolls and chicken wings

dinner 

- made more soup and pasta for macaroni

- knife cut noodles

- leftover fish curry and fried snapper fish

26 May 2025

breakfast

thai beef soup from kaffe and toast kkh

after consulting doc

lunch / dinner  

mama's fish curry 

and minced pork

dinner

- mama's fish curry with fried snapper fish

- mama's minced pork

- fried eggs and oyster mushrooms

- fried kangkong

25 May 2025

breakfast - wan tan mee at chong boon

dinner - chicken macaroni soup

baked cakes from 5pm till 9+pm

- carrot pineapple cake - this time a bit powdery :(

- lemon butter cake 

(jannah mix everything herself! and i baked the cake)

baked cakes from 5pm till 9+pm

- carrot pineapple cake - this time a bit powdery :(

- lemon butter cake 

(jannah mix everything herself! and i baked the cake)

below: lemon butter cake

below: carrot cake with no frosting

below: carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

below: carrot cake batter

below: cream cheese frosting

below: carrot cake - 

baked and cooled for at least 30 min

below: carrot cake - crumbly when cut

not sure why the cake breaks into crumbs :(

cake tastes moist, even if you had to use a spoon 

to scoop the crumbs like eating rice/porridge LOL

24 May 2025

sandwiches again for breakfast

jannah added strawberries into her sandwich and salad Lol

lunch - ginger black sauce chicken porridge (all in one)

23 May 2025

felt like eating ham and egg sandwich...

21 May 2025

lunch - amk hub for noodles (no pic)

dinner - cooked ginger chicken with leftover carrots and chye sim

20 May 2025

lunch - porridge

yes, strangely, chilli padi can be put on top of the box...

dinner 

(only have pics for the sambal stingray Lol)

- leftover kuah lada, 

- sambal stingray, 

- braised beancurd

- fried eggs

- fried french beans with carrots and sliced pork

Recipe - Grilled Stingray

1. season the stingray with 

salt, turmeric powder, garlic oil, black pepper, plum sauce

2. i use baking paper on a grill plate

3. then add a layer of pandan leaves and raw onions

4. place stingray on top of pandan and onions

5. add the sambal chilli and more raw onions on top of the stingray

6. grill until fish is cooked (i add a bit of water for gravy)

7. squeeze lime or lemon juice to the grilled stingray

Recipe - Sambal 

1. fry garlic, onions, hae bi (dried prawns) and serai

2. add dried chilli paste x1 tbsp 

(i use singlong dried chilli paste)

3. add sambal belacan x2 tbsp

4. add stock cube, sugar, salt and assam to taste

5. fry chilli mixture

6. add tomato ketchup, water to cook till the paste is dry

7. set aside paste and cool

8. add lime or lemon juice

9. add chopped limau purut leaves

see below: i use this chilli paste for the sambal

19 May 2025

morning - kkh for scan (quite atas the clinic Lol)

lunch - malaysia boleh - sar poh fan

dinner - cooked but no appetite to eat 

(ate after i cooled down in aircon room and put mopiko on all my swollen mozzie bites!)

cooked chye sim and sliced pork with beans

jannah requested beans with pork :D

18 May 2025

bake cake sunday! with jannah

we made 2 carrot cakes 

and 1 lemon butter cake

recipes - https://jt-food.blogspot.com/2017/07/22-cakes-and-bakes.html

18 May 2025 Sun

lunch and dinner

roast chicken, spaghetti with mushrooms

(Spaghetti No 3 is quite thin... )

16 May 2025 Fri

- stingray kuah lada - pepper ikan pari or stingray fish

- prawns with string beans and garlic stems

- spinach with salted and century eggs

15 May 2025

mee siam at qiji amk hub

before grocery shopping at ntuc

14 May 2025

hand itchy, plucked a lime from the garden 

- wow so fragrant!

14 May 2025

omg i misssssss fried cornbeef!

and with fried eggs and stir fried kailan - o m g !!

14 May 2025

kovan for curry rice $4.80, not really cheap?

- brinjals, leeks with tau kuah, mei chye / mui choy, kailan

this portion is after ko ko took some veggies from my plate LOL

12 May 2025

chong boon wan tan mee - nice!

11 May 2025

alow's recipe

brinjals with garlic, dark soya sauce, salt, white pepper and sugar.

10 May 2025

didn't feel too good

pork porridge at 628 always comforting and yummy!

9 May 2025

cooked fish curry with some ingredients from wet market indian stall

- bought the rempah $3.50 and brinjals $4.80

went 628 market to buy some curry ingredients

then cooked fish curry before meeting jac 

9 May 2025

went 628 market to buy some curry ingredients

then cooked fish curry before meeting jac 

kuay chap at giant (with jac)

8 May 2025

bought a whole salmon from ntuc 

tau cheo salmon fish head

8 May 2025

tau cheo pork

some green veggies LOL

8 May 2025

lunch at amk hub coffeeshop

must have something to eat before going ntuc

4 May 2025

curry rice lunch at kovan $4.80

- brinjals

- kailan

- fried egg

- mui choy (mei chye) with minced pork

3 May 2025

dinner at old airport road

prawn noodles

1 May 2025

from leftover grilled fish gravy (central zhichar stall),

added chicken - tasted amazing LOL

chicken stew (using leftover fish gravy)

1 May 2025

macaroni soup!

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APRIL 2025

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30 April 2025

grilled sambal sotong

using the leftover sambal kang kong

29 April 2025

REC (Research) meeting and mark entry

breakfast at dino's

28 April 2025

braised tau kuah

sambal kang kong

Recipe - Braised Tau Kuah

1. fry garlic 

2. add chicken stock (or water with chicken powder/cube)

3. season with oyster sauce, sugar, light soya, sesame oil, chinese shaoxing wine

4. add dark soya sauce for colour

5. add cubed tau kuah and cook till gravy coats the tofu

6. other things to add if available:
- dried scallops or fresh scallops

- chinese mushrooms or any fresh mushrooms

- prawns or prawn balls

Recipe - Sambal Kang Kong

1. fry onions, garlic, cut fresh red chilli

2. add hae bi (dried shrimps) and fry

3. add dried chilli paste and sambal belacan

4. season with salt and sugar

5. add kangkong and fry till cooked

6. serve hot with steamed rice

28 April 2025

quick spaghetti

27 April 2025

bcm at chong boon market

seriously good noodles!

25 April 2025

vegetarian dumpling noodles

24 April 2025

stewed pork in dark soya sauce

21 April 2025

home cooked whatever i can cook LOL

looks good though!

20 April 2025

grilled ikan kurau

20 April 2025

lunch at el carbon with daddy

19 April 2025

looks like stewed beef

but i would never eat it with rice. 

so i can't rem what this is LOL

aidan's birthday present

kieren (aidan's friend) gave him some chocolates

16 April 2025

expensive lunch from nasi padang restaurant on bencoolen street $7.80

2 dishes - sambal goreng and money chye

food is not bad. just a bit too ex

10 April 2025

mixed cabbage tunghoon 

with pepper pork bamboo shoots

9 April 2025

chong boon market wan tan mee

chong boon market bak chor mee - nice!

7 April 2025

pepper pork with bamboo shoots - kuah lada

with daikon or white carrot (nice!)

edna's coriander revived after soaking in water

7 April 2025

lunch for christen, jannah and me

spaghetti, roast chicken and veggies - cucumber and mushrooms

6 April 2025

forgot what this is LOL

5 April 2025

turkish food from serangoon gardens

4 April 2025 fri

noodle soup!

dinner before going to gerald's house

4 April 2025

my malay food lunch

$5.80 for 3 -4 dishes, no meat.

2 April 2025

fatty ox - duck noodles - wow, very nice!
next time i'll order the beef stew noodles (gnao lam meen)

1 April 2025

tomato and red wine beef stew

oops. camera shake, pic blur :(

1 Apr 2025

Josephine (Jo, our admin) cooked ayam pedas.

it's like a soup. very light and soupy!

1 April 2025

bibimbap at fortune centre