Having lunch @ home in Fukuoka

Home cooked breakfast & lunch

Eating home-cooked food

Lunching at home on a Saturday. We seldom like to eat out on weekends as Singapore eateries are very crowded. What can one expect when SG, an island of 719 km2, has to accommodate 5.9 million residents (not including tourists and visitors)?
Besides, eating home-cooked food is much healthier than eating out, right?

Breakfast,lunch at home, dinner @ Yoshinoya

I had tang hoon (glass noodles) for breakfast. Lunch was rice, miso soup, fried bitter gourd with cherry tomatoes and eggs and a plate of home made Japanese char siew. Also had an orange after lunch.
Eating home cooked food is, in my opinion is a healthier choice. Only issue with cooking is the amount of time and work involved. Doing the dishes is also a chore. Eating out is convenient but not necessarily healthy as my blogger friend pointed out in his blog.

Dinner@ Yoshinoya (Beef Bowl)

Beef with rice or "Beef Bowl" is one of my favorite Japanese dishes. I had it for dinner at Compass One Mall. I opted for just a bowl which cost $6.50. In Japan, the same dish cost about $4 and taste even better.
I had ice kachang for dessert from Kopitiam ($2.20, picture below)

Lunch@ home and meeting@ Kovan

Instead of attending my school cohorts lunch, I had mine at home. Moreover, I attended the get together with the SIA/SATS retirees which I consider more relaxing than with my school cohorts.
The former was held at 313@ Somerset while the latter was at Kovan which is nearer to my home.

Our blessed Sunday lunch@ home and chu char dinner

We had our Sunday lunch at home. Rice from Japan, nikujaga, bitter gourd and potato salad. All dishes were prepared and cooked by my wife. Wish we could eat at home more often but sometimes due to our schedule it's not possible. 

Chu char dinner

Dinner was at a coffee shop in the Sengkang area (P12 coffee shop). This was our first time there. We ordered the hot-plate tofu with seafood and minced meat, sweet sour sliced fish, sambal kangkong and a bowl of rice each. The food was above average. I like the sweet sour fish and the tofu. The kangkong was not spicy enough for me. The cost was $28.50. The place was 40% full at around 5pm.
Service was fast and we like it. We will frequent this place soon. 

Nice home prepared lunch

Home cooked lunch

This was my lunch. It's made up of fried rice, miso soup and broccoli salad. The last picture was the yam cake from Toast Box which I had for dinner plus Old Chang Kee curry puff and fish balls (no pic). 

My kampong neighbours

Uncle Lim looked fierce and cruel to me. His step daughter Mary would surely agree with me. Uncle Lim, his wife  Auntie Lim and the 6 year old Mary were my neighbours.
We used to live in a kampong and it was quiet and peaceful until the Lim's family became our next door neighbours. Fortunately for us, they only lived there for a year.
Certain things in life, one could never forget even though they may have happened many years ago.
The story I am going to relate happened when I was about 10 years old.
Uncle Lim was about 30 years old and his wife was 5 years younger than him. He was unemployed but his wife struggled to keep the family of 3 going. Auntie Lim worked as a dance hostess at the old Happy World Cabaret in Geylang.
Almost every evening, a trishaw rider would come and transport Auntie Lim to the Cabaret. She would come home very late in the night.
Whenever Auntie Lim was at work, Uncle Lim would beat up Mary for the slight wrong she did. Mary would cry and screamed and pleaded for the neighbours to help her but no one dared to help her. Next day we would see the red cane marks on Mary's hands and legs.
Mary was Uncle Lim's step daughter. We did not know what had happened to Mary's father. We suspected that Mary's father was either killed or imprisoned for being a gangster.
I noticed that Uncle Lim was a body builder. He was seen to spend a lot of time lifting weight. He was big built and a bully. As a child, I was always afraid of him.

Lunching at home

Lunch was ma bo tofu, mushrooms + veggies and rice. Simple but satisfying and healthy.

A nice cool morning

Woke up to a wet and cool morning. The outside temperature is about 27.3 C which is cool by Singapore standard.
I thought to myself how fortunate we are as we do not have to go out and work.
I just heard on the radio that one of MRT (train) lines has been disrupted causing some inconvenience to the passengers who were going to work. The train breakdowns are frequent compared to those in some other countries like London, New York, Tokyo etc. Singapore train networks are relatively new when compared to those in countries that I've mentioned.
Driving to work can be frustrating too. The roads or so called expressways are usually jammed with all sorts of vehicles. There are about 1 million vehicles in this tiny island of Singapore.
Therefore, we are glad and lucky not having to travel to work.

Lunch at home

We had our lunch at home. It's a simple lunch comprising of nikujaga, fried chicken and a small bowl of Japanese rice.

My usual home prepared lunch

Once again, we are back to our home cooked food. We may not attend any buffet meal for a while after yesterday's experience. The grilled salmon, salad, fried egg omelette, tofu and rice is more satisfying than yesterday's buffet.

Lunch, onigiri and fruits

Onigiri are Japanese rice balls. We made them using the leftover grilled salmon and rice. We may have them for afternoon tea.
Were at Chong Pang market a while ago and bought all those fruits from there. The jack fruits are sweet and can't get them elsewhere. The Australian oranges are also sweet and juicy which are better than the ones from FairPrice or Sheng Shiong.

Lunch & McCafe cheese cake set

For the afternoon tea, we headed to the nearby McDonald's to have our cheese cake and cappuccino. We have not visited the McDonald's for months but frankly we did not miss the place. Reasons for not visiting are mainly due to the overwhelming crowd and the rowdiness of the kids. 

Home prepared lunch

We are trying to include more fish than meat in our diet. Reasons are obvious and were stated in my earlier post. The above are:

• Grilled salmon
• Kailan (vegtables)
• Miso soup
• Japanese rice.

Lunch@ home

Being a Saturday, we are quite sure the eateries and malls would be jam-packed with people. Therefore, my wife decided to cook our lunch and have them at home.
This simple but nutritious meal is made up of Japanese white rice, goyza, sambal kangkong and fried eggs/onions.