Simple simple lunch of pumpkin rice, tomato eggs and gao kee cai soup today!

Gao kee cai soup
Fry garlic till fragrant. Add in minced pork (marinated in soy sauce, sesame oil, corn starch and pepper) and fry till almost cooked. Add in gao kee chai and continue frying till wilted. Add in chicken stock and simmer for 10 mins. Garnish with goji berries.

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难得我们想出门. Showing off my very coordinated outfit. ☺

吃 ondeh ondeh cake at Assembly Ground. Not bad leh the cake was moist and really tastes like ondeh ondeh.

Dinner at Soup Restaurant! Food was yummy as usual but nausea striked again after dinner. 😞

Baked salmon

Baked salmon on cedar planks
The salmon is freshly delivered from kuhlbarra! Simply seasoned with garlic thyme oil, salt and pepper and baked on cedar plank for 35 mins at 150deg.

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Miso grilled chicken

Miso grilled chicken
Marinate 2 chicken thighs in 2 tbsp white miso paste, 1.5 tbsp mirin, 1 tbsp sake and half tbsp each of sugar and soy sauce overnight. Place the thighs in baking tray and bake in a 200 deg oven for 15 mins on each side, basting once or twice with leftover marinade.
Soba soup base
Add 1.5 tbsp of soy sauce and 1 tbsp mirin to 800ml of dashi.

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Woke up at 215am and cannot sleep again 😞
The same thing happened last friday. Is it a sign of aging…………..

So, I went back to sleep at 630am and had a dream.
Dreamt that I got woken up by my colleague and I was in a train. She jokingly asked me "要起来了没有?". I groggily opened my eyes and found myself in a downtown line train heading away from home. I wondered how I appeared on downtown line when there were none immediately accessible near my place. What a strange place to sleepwalk to. I hurriedly alighted at the next stop because I want to go back to sleep more.

Walked around the whole station and discovered that there were no trains in the opposite direction. Saw quite a few taxis but there was none available. Was contemplating booking uberpool when I saw an Indian family get out of a taxi because the driver didn't want to go to the location they want. Happily boarded the taxi only to see another guy already in there. Told the guy I am heading to Bedok and asked him if he wanna share the cab. The driver was very agreeable!

Just as we were pulling up the highway, I realised ey wrong! Why am I heading to Bedok? I don't stay there anymore! I must be still groggy from sleep. Quickly stopped the driver and told him to drop me off at the kerb. It looked like some place in the middle of nowhere. There was a sudden commotion behind me. The driver and the male passenger was shouting at me to look up.

And I saw the most beautiful sunrise. Gorgeous colours lighting up some lovely fort canning hotelish structures. There were already many people there, seemingly having a church service or just celebrating the wonders of life. I was filled with such feelings of amazement and wonder. Kept taking photos to show CJ and more and more marvellous things kept showing up on the screen.

I feel like the dream is telling me to always look on the bright side of life. 🙂

Anyway after that was some anticlimax part of me being back at home, horrified to find myself in a v dirty toilet with a broken toilet bowl. And me being woken up again (this time I am on my bed) by my mum who somehow managed to enter our house. She wanted to leave seeing that I am still sleeping but I told her nvm let me pei2 u.

I love the smell of the air the morning after a thunderstorm. So crisp and fresh, it instantly made my day brighter. 💕

Chinese gravy noodles

Chinese gravy noodles from omnivorescookbook
Fry some minced ginger and spring onion. Add in rehydrated shittake mushrooms and dried lily buds. Fry for a min or two before adding in one chopped tomato. Continue frying for a few mins. Add chicken stock and liquid from rehydrating the lily buds and simmer for awhile. Add in sliced pork and seafood (premarinated in shaoxing wine, cornstarch, salt and pepper).

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Mee tai mak soup

Mee tai mak soup for a rainy day! Lao gong's portion.
Fry 30g of minced dried shrimps in oil with some shittake mushrooms till fragrant. Add in 150g minced pork (marinated in 1 tbsp shaoxing wine, 1 tbsp soy sauce, little pepper and sesame oil) and fry till half cooked. Add 300ml each of chicken broth and water and simmer for 10 mins. Ladle over mee tai mak and garnish w coriander, chilli padi and lard pieces. Drizzle a little garlic oil.

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Tang yuan in ginger soup for supper. ☺

Chicken conpoy porridge/ braised hairy gourd with mushrooms

Chicken conpoy congee for lunch!

Cheat code to get the cantonese porridge 口感 in a short time – wash and drain the rice grains and freeze it for at least 8 hours before cooking. The freezing will cause water inside the rice grains to expand and spilt the grains. Only need to cook for 20 mins to get the smooth and thick congee! (learnt from woksoflife).

Chicken conpoy porridge
Marinate 2 chicken thighs (chopped) with 1 tbsp shaoxing wine, 1 tsp soy sauce and white pepper for 20 mins. Soak 4 conpoys till soft and shred them. Boil 500ml of water with 80g of rice and the conpoy for 15 mins. Add chicken and ginger and simmer for another 15 mins. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with spring onions and a drizzle of sesame oil.

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Pre-roasted chicken carcasses make the best chicken stock.
Toss the chicken carcasses and thigh bones with a little oil and roast at 200deg for an hour. Place the bones into pressure cooker and use some hot water to get all the drippings from the roasting pan. Using just enough water to cover the bones, pressure cook for 1.5 hours. Tadaa~

The 收获!
Good amount of extremely nutritious bone broth. The layer of chicken oil (left most jar) will solidify in the fridge and can be skimmed off to use for frying vegetables! 不浪费 and makes the vegetables extra tasty.

Dinner of sambal belachan sweet potato leaves, steamed fish and braised hairy gourd with mushrooms.

The sweet potato leaves wasn't very good because I forgot the hei bi! Will try again next time! And I think it really needs a lot of oil to be nice. 😶

Braised hairy gourd with mushrooms
Rehydrate a small handful of conpoy and 5 shittake mushrooms. Fry minced garlic and some ginger in oil till fragrant. Add hairy gourd (and shredded chicken picked from the chicken carcasses) and fry for a few minutes. Add in 300ml of homemade chicken stock, 1 tbsp oyster sauce, 1 tsp soy sauce, and abit of sesame oil and pepper, conpoy w soaking liquid and the mushrooms. Simmer till gourds are soft before adding vermicelli.

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Tau yu bak 💕

Lor bak and teochew porridge. My favourite. 😍

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Packed and ready for 娘家! So happy that my dad loves the assam fish!

Oyakodon

Oyakodon!
Heat 1 tbsp sake and 3 tbsp mirin in a pan. Add in 350ml of dashi, 2 tbsp of soy sauce, 1 tbsp of sugar and bring to a boil. Place 2 chicken thighs (cut into chunks) and an onion (sliced) into the pan in one layer and simmer for 10 mins. Beat in 4 eggs.
I followed the recipe and only used 2 eggs but it was really insufficient. Especially for an egg lover like me. Will double it next time!☺

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