Home cooked Japanese food

 

Have not eaten home prepared Japanese food for ages. Above is our lunch. It is made up of saba fish stuffed with mentai or fish roe, miso soup, tofu, fried egg, sliced onions and a bowl of Japanese white rice.

A delightful meal

We bought 18 pieces of medium size prawns for $6.70 and made tempura ebi. They tasted superb perhaps due to my wife's cooking. I could not have done the same as I am still a novice at cooking Japanese dishes. Wonder how much will it cost to eat the above at a restaurant in SG?

My daughter and my grandson had the premium seafood bowl and salmon don (below pictures) for $49 and $17 respectively at Bonta Bonta (too expensive for us retirees)
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Yummy food from Tokyo, Japan

Endless nice food from Japan...Yup, I just feel like flying to Japan this spring or summer to satisfy my hunger for washioku.

Japanese salmon rice, preserved veggies, sardines etc

1983 cafe prices cheaper than ....

Cafe 1983 is one of the eateries that serves besides the traditional kaya toasts, coffee etc, mee rebus, mee siam and many more other local dishes.
I was at Changi Airport Terminal 2 yesterday and was surprise to discover the prices at 1983 were cheaper than those at  Toast Box, Ya Kun etc.
The traditional kaya butter toast set which comprises of 2 soft boiled eggs, toast and a cup of hot drink cost only $4.30 while the same one at Toast Box cost $5.40, Ya kun $4.80. Mind you this Changi Airport T2 where the rental is much higher than Toast Box, Yakun etc at the heartland malls.
The mee rebus and mee siam set at 1983 is only $5.50 compared to Toast Box's $6.70.
I have not eaten at 1983 but often at Toast Box and Ya Kun. I was told the food at 1983 is as good as at TB and YK.
Currently there 4 1983 outlets in SG. Click here for its website.

Home prepared Japanese meal

We decided to eat in due to the rain. We had Japanese white rice with mentai (salted fish roe), Japanese preserved vegetable, miso soup and a plate of broccoli, sweet peas, ladies' fingers and fried egg with bacon. It was a hearty meal, I must admit. Again compliments to my wife.

Today's meals and Mr Koh the hawker

Began the day with some sweet oranges and before that a cup of kopi O. Lunch was typical Japanese home prepared food. Dinner was a $6 plate of delectable fried Hokkien mee at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.

A note about the Hokkien mee hawker:

Let's call him Koh. He is about 60 years old, slim and tall with a head of thin grey hair. He fries the mee in a large wok and his helper is his wife. Koh's mee is really good and my guess is that he is in this business for a long time, maybe 30 years or more. His stall is at the wet market and I think he is the original tenant and pays a nominal rent of about $400 a month to the HDB. His overhead is very low and judging by the number of customers he has everyday, his profit may be in the region of $12,000. He charges $3.50 for the smallest plate and $6 to the biggest (the one I had). He is not friendly at all and hardly say a work as he fries his mee...he does not have to be friendly as long as he could satisfy his customers' taste buds. He opens his stall at 3pm and closes at 10pm daily.
In Singapore, if a hawker or cook excels in his cooking, he will make tons of money.

Japanese restaurant in Ang Mo Kio

This is the charasi don (2 sets) we had at Jubilee Square, AMK Ave8 (near AMK Hub) for lunch. Each set cost $14.80 ++. For 2 sets we ordered, we were given another lunch set free of charge. The free set is the saba set (below pic) but without the rice. In other words, if you order 2 sets, you will get one for free. However, for the free set, it must not be more in value than the original set you ordered...example the charasi don set we ordered was $14.80 and the free saba set was $12.80.

The restaurant is called Haru Haru. The ambience was nice and pleasant. There was no queue even during lunch time although it was 90% full. Service was good and food was as good as Sushiro at Thomson Plaza (Sushiro's queue is perpetually very long and the place is small).
Strongly recommended if you love Japanese food.

My lunch and dinner for today

Top picture is the masala dosai. It is a Southern Indian snack which looks like a thin pancake. Inside is stuffing made of mashed potatoes, onions, green chilli and spices. It is eaten with curry gravy and grated coconut milk.
The other picture is the waffle with cream and a scoop of caramel ice cream.


Home cooked Japanese hamburg steak

The Hamburg steak was cooked by my wife. It tasted great and am really grateful for having a wife who is also a fantastic cook.

Visited Sushiro again

We couldn't resist going back to Sushiro for the Japanese food again. This time we deliberately went a bit late, thinking the lunch crowd would have left the restaurant. We were sadly mistaken as there was a long queue outside the restaurant. However, not to be deterred, we joined the queue and managed to get our seats after 25 minutes.
My wife had the Premium Charasi don and myself the Unagi don. At $24.80 the Premium Charasi don was quite expensive. The Unagi don was at a reasonable $15.80. For all Charasi don the base was sushi rice whereas for Unagi don, California rice was the base.
Taste wise, the Premium Charasi don was good but the Unagi don was not up to my expectation.

Chirashi don@ Sushiro for lunch

The Chirashi don at Sushiro Restaurant (Thomson Plaza) is one of the finest and cheapest in Singapore. The Q is usually long even before opening time. Besides the above, you may also find other types of Japanese food like Unagi don, donburi, sushi, sashimi etc.

We had the above for lunch today. The Chirashi don lunch set with miso soup and salad is $15.80 each. If you do not want the lunch set but just the bowl of Chirashi don, it will cost you $12.80. There is no ++. Besides being inexpensive, the taste and quality of the food is first class.
The small restaurant can only sit 20 people at any one time so be prepared to wait in the queue.

After lunch, we proceeded to nearby Yakun Kaya for our kopi O. The place is deserted and quiet during lunch time.

Cheese+egg toast, Japanese lunch and a video of "fried ice-cream"

The Japanese lunch set ($13.90) is known as tendon which is tempura (prawn & chicken) with rice plus pickles and chawanmushi (steamed egg custard).
The video was taken at a pasar malam stall selling Thai fried ice-cream. The five rolls of ice- cream is $4. I bought it out of curiosity. I find the taste just like the ordinary ice cream.

Good excuse for not flying to Japan

This was the coin that gave us the headache regarding the washing machine. It got stuck somewhere
near the coil and interfered with the spinning mechanism. The technician retrieved the coin and everything was fine. It cost me $60 and lots of inconveniences for that simple retrieving task.
Anyway, I had to wait for the technician this morning and so had the excuse of not going with my wife to Japan. She is visiting her parents. Flying or travelling is not my cup of tea, after all I've been flying for 35 years prior to my retirement. I prefer to stay at home.
The pictures (below) were sent to me today.