Spice Market

My friend, B, told me about this cool place in NYC at lunch today. (B is a fellow g’villean who spends every other week in NYC). The way he described it resembled the Japanese style “eating booths” or whatever they’re called. So you go in, eat your food behind the curtains and exit in the [...]

the result…

the pad thai didn’t turn out restaurant style, but good, nonetheless. I was surprised to learn that the millers were big jap anime fans. We ended up watching My Neighbors the Yamadas. Very funny.

pad thai.

Tomorrow, my friend and I will attempt to make Pad Thai (click for recipe). Will let you know how it turned out!

touched.

I got a package today from J. So sweet. I was on my way back to the apt and thought I’d check my mail. In the package was a card, titbits, and non-no (my favourite Jap magazine!!) J must have gotten that during her layover in Tokyo on the way back to Singapore. Jan, you [...]

music intoxication

as Josh puts it. Thanks to Caleb & Joshua, I’m hooked on nodame cantabile. I don’t remember ever being interested in anime and this is the first time I’ve actually finished watching an episode. 22mins. My Taiwanese friend, JS, who loves almost everything Japanese has highly recommended nodame cantabile too. I believe I’m in for [...]

morphing

this blog is becoming more of a thinking out loud, reflections, evaluations, etc. column. I might just start a new blog for that. The onethird person blog didn’t work out too well. Heh, all three of us stopped blogging and posting pics after a while (notice I took it off my blogroll). Yea, Pam, I [...]

yippee

S gave me a haircut today! This is the second time in 9 years since I’ve let someone other than William cut my hair. Most of my friends know I’m picky and stubborn about my hairstylist and I have never ever had my hair cut or permed anywhere else. It came to a point where [...]

I’m merely human. Like you.

A couple of friends have commented that my life seems to be pretty good, full of fun, no worries, etc…. you get the idea. Heh… I wish.
If life were that easy or smooth sailing, we wouldn’t be who we are today. If we didn’t have trials & temptations in life, we wouldn’t have grown.
That said, [...]

drunken chicken

I got a surprise package from a friend and this cookbook was one of the things that came along with some other things. It’s the CWA cookbook. The recipes were contributed by lots of tai tais. Pretty pictures with succint recipes. Kind of nice. Anything long-winded would be a chore to read.
This is one chinese [...]

beef & mushrooms

Man, writing a recipe is hard. I’d rather demonstrate than write it out because I have to think through the steps. This is specially for nick, lydia, little cody, and all food lovers.

ingredients: sliced beef, sliced mushrooms, spring onions, yellow onions (optional:bell peppers)
marinade: chinese cooking wine, soy sauce, black pepper, sesame oil (optional: cornflour- [...]