CNY lunch @ home

 

Lunch @ 5 by Sans Facon French Restaurant

 

The meal was average. The beef steak ($29) was a little tough. The cheese cake was not worth the $9 paid. The lamb shank ($29) lacked the lamb taste and the Salad Burrata ($19) was so so.

The service was good and the ambience nice.

CNY goodies for senior citizens

 

Our residents' committee has generously distributed the above Chinese New Year goodies to all senior citizens. There was also an ang pow containing a $10 note.

This is my first time getting the goodies as most time I was not in SG during the CNY season.

Our MP is none other than Mr Lee Hsien Loong, our Prime Minister.

Many thanks to the committee and our beloved PM!

Are Singaporeans able to do this?

 

These are foreign workers. Besides the construction of HDB flats, MRT lines etc they can also paint tall buildings like the one above. The jobs come with big risks like falling off the gondola etc.

We need these workers because we don't have the expertise or guts to do the job like the above. Yet, these workers are paid less than S$1,000 per month.

Home cooked fries

 

 

                           How to prepare click here

Home cooked laksa with ready made paste

 

I bought the above ingredients from Sheng Siong supermarket. The brand name of

the laksa paste is Hai's. You may also add a bit of dry shrimps  (pound) and fry it with the paste in hot oil. After that add about 600 to 800 ml of water and 200 ml of coconut milk. Boil the mixture with some tau pok. Then pour the gravy into a bowl of cooked laksa noodles and towgay. You may add some sliced fish cake and cockles plus a teaspoon of sambal. To enhance the flavour, you may also put in some laksa leaves. The end result is the laksa is as tasty as the famous Yishun 928 laksa. It is very simple and convenient to make your own laksa with ready made paste. Try it and probably you won't want to eat the hawkers' laksa anymore.

Laksa@Yishun 928

Cooking Fish Curry

King Kong to scare Covid-19?

 

Singapore beef noodles

 I can be anywhere in the world but one dish I really miss is the Hwa Heng Beef   Noodles. The stall is located at the hawker centre next to Boon Keng MRT Station.

 It is operational from Wednesday to Saturday from morning (not sure of the time)   till 2.30 pm.

 A bowl of soup or dry noodles with beef, towgay, tendon etc cost from $5 to $7. The one in the photo is $6 with beef and beef tendon.

Harvesting Broccoli and Turnips

 

Finally, the above vegetables are harvested. The broccoli tasted as good as the turnips or daikon as it is known in Japan. 

Winter vegetables

 

The broccoli, cabbage and daikon are doing well even when we left them alone for the last 2 months. These are winter vegetables and needed minimum water and care. The cold winter is able to sustain them.

The bottom picture are vegetables from our garden except for the carrots and meat. They are pressured cooked and had it for dinner.

A New Year in Japan

 

It is sunny but quite cold in the afternoon with a temperature between 4 and 5 the whole day. I kind of like the slightly cold weather but does not like the chilly wind.

As far as Covid 19 goes, it is bad in the big cities like Tokyo and Osaka. Fukuoka is not as bad although it is worse than in SG. Tokyo record and average of 1,000 new cases a day. Japan as a whole record around 3,500 to 4,000 a day in recent months.

Flood in Singapore on 1 & 2 Jan 2021

 

Birthday Dinner@ Tower Club on 29 Dec 2020

Celebrating birthday with my close relatives. Ambience and food is good but best of all is the companionship.

Sheng Siong supermart overcharged by mistake?

 

We bought 2 bundles of spinach (1 red & 1 round) from Sheng Siong supermarket this morning but was charged for 3 bundles (2 red & 1 round). We didn't realised it until we got home when we, out of curiosity, checked the receipt. Could this overcharging a mistake on the part of the cashier? Could this "mistake" be made frequently without the customers knowing it? We seldom check the receipt against what we bought as we trust the supermarket. We could have disputed the matter but the supermaket is a distance away and it's not worth our time and effort to travel all the way to rectify the issue. I blog the matter so as to bring awareness to all.

Still maintaining my weight

I cooked the bee hoon and spinach or bayam and had them for lunch.The curry puff was for dinner. The bee hoon was stir fried with chopped garlic and small pieces of meat. The same went for the spinach. Of course, I used a little bit of oil and light soya sauce. I also made my own yogurt and had it for afternoon tea. All in all my weight still remained the same (69.4 kg) when I got up this morning.

How I made my yogurt

I mixed a teaspoon of honey and apple cider vinegar and stirred well. Then I poured fresh milk into the mixture and voila my homemade yogurt!