我的烹饪分享 - 面食篇

咱們家的beng, 除了是饭桶, 还是个面王。久不久，他就会吵着要吃面，也因为这样，原本对面食的煮法一窍不通的我，也逼着逼着自创乱煮乱炒了起来~ 呵 ^.^

通常beng都是冷不防的突然crave for 面食的，所以我每次都得临时发挥创意，冰箱里剩下什么配料就拿来跟面来个一锅熟，以下这些“杰作”就是这样煮出来的。。大家见怪莫怪~

香肠培根炒唯一(Vits)面~

~ 猪肉碎炒阳春面 ~

培根蒜苗干捞阳春面 （这个是想吃家乡SP华强茶室的阿南面时弄来抵一抵瘾的~）

杂锦炒面 （青菜，萝卜，蘑菇，培根）

辛拉面 + 蛋

海鲜大杂烩面（Bondi Beach BBQ剩下的配料）

蟹王烩米粉（螃蟹是在酒楼吃剩的，这道米粉好鲜好好吃哦~~ ^o^）

冬菇鸡丝炒阳春面 (鸡丝是前晚吃剩的Oporto Lemon Herb Chicken..咔咔咔)

肉碎紫菜韩式粉丝 （beng在韩裔同事家吃过后吵着要吃的）

buoy式猪肉（碎）粉（条） （beng朝思暮想的猪肉粉，在KL的时候，每逢周末必点的早餐，这个buoy式的，有7分像吧，beng就将就一下下吧！嘻~）

为了以防万一面瘾来得太突然，我们都会谨慎确认家里的某个角落，一直都是满满的。。。

酷吧？~~ 咔咔咔~~ ^.^

桃園(Towon) & Sushi-YA @ Chatswood

Today, we have both our lunch and dinner at Chatswood, lunch with Kim, and dinner with lovely Ying & Ke.

We had our lunch at 桃園(Towon) - A Chinese Restaurant which serves chinese food(of coz =_='') and also some korean food(heard that the owners are a couple where the husband is a Chinese and the wife is a Korean).



When we first entered the restaurant, we were quite surprised by the ambience and decoration inside the restaurant. At first we thought it was just another hawker-style restaurant, but after entering the restaurant, we started to worried about our wallet. kakaka~

The atmosphere was quiet, relaxing and classy. Waitress were mostly Korean, and the service was friendly and prompt. We were given the menu right after we were seated at a table near the window.

After browsing through the menu, we were relieved that the prices were indeed rather reasonable. Kim saw this Korean Shio-jiu in the menu, and recommended us to try it. So we ordered 1 bottle to share.

It tasted somehow like white wine, lighter aroma, with much stronger alcohol content. I would prefer if it is slightly more fruity. ^.^ Though me and beng shared one bottle of it(375ml), we started to feel a little drunk after just a couple of tiny glasses.

The chopsticks cover was printed with Korean words too, carrying the same meaning as the Chinese words, "Peach Garden".

This yellow-roundish thingy was the complementary apetizer, according to Kim it is a common apetizer in Korean meal, and it tasted something similiar to pickles, sweet & sour. The chilli sauce was for the spring-rolls that came as a side dish to what beng ordered.

This is what beng ordered, Mongolian Lamb + Spring Roll rice set. The lamb was perfectly flavoured, very tasty, though the portion of the rice was slightly too small to fill up beng's pops~


Kim & I ordered the same dish, the Jajangmyeon, the Korean version of Zhajiang Mian (炸酱面), the brown colour of the sauce is from the use of chunjang (a salty, black-colored paste made from roasted soybeans), rather than hoisin sauce. Jajangmyeon may also feature a variety of diced seafood rather than pork. It doesn't taste like the Chinese-style Zhajiang Mian I've tried before, and I was quite surprised when first noticed that there were only mixed veges in it (a disappointment for a meat-lover like me) ..haha!

Ya I know, it doesn't look good. haha~

However, it was indeed true to not judge a book by its cover leh, it actually tasted quite good. Not too salty, not too sweet, just nice.

After finished eating, we spent some time chit-chatting, chilling and enjoying ourselves on this pleasant afternoon...

We left the restaurant around 2pm, when Kim realized that his car parking period was going to expired soon. We parted ways at the train station, and move on to our activities for the rest of the day.

Beng and I spent the next few hours scrolling along the streets at Chatswood, sitting on the bench watching all kinds of people passing by, shopping for groceries, joking, laughing, and enjoying each other's company. ^.^

At dinner time, we met up with Ying & Ke, and we went together in Ke's car to this popular sushi restaurant called Sushi-YA. It was located at the corner of the shoplot beside a quiet neighbourhood. I read about its reviews from the Internet and was very excited to try out the food myself.

We were greeted attentively as we entered the restaurant, and we were lucky to secure ourselves a table for 6, which is quite spacious for the 4 of us, in this small but cosy, very busy restaurant.

As usual, we ordered hot ocha(green tea) , our must-have drink whenever we visit a Japanese Restaurant.

They have quite delicate tableware, with nice Japanese drawing painted on..

We ordered the Special Sashimi set, a generous platter of mixed fresh seafood sashimi!!! The presentation of this dish was simply awesome and mouth-watering~ ...and guess wat? The price was incredibly affordable! The slices of raw fishes were thick and juicy, not to mention the superb freshness, this is definitely our favourite dish and it is worth every cent of the money spent!

Next, we also ordered the Main Sushi set, consisting of 15 pcs of mixed sushi and roll, which were cleverly placed on a rectangular plate.

Besides raw dishes, we decided to try some of their cooked dishes as well. We selected the Chicken meatball which was highly recommended by Ying. It was a plate of 6 medium-sized meatballs, marinated and deep-fried in a very tasty special sauce. It was crispy on the outside, and soft in the inside...yummy~~

As Ying is a vegetarian now, she ordered the fried tofu + rice set. She was very generous to share the dish with us, though she had got very little to eat from all the meaty dishes we've ordered. This is a very nice dish as well, I wondered what is the sauce they used to marinate the tofu, it was very rich in flavour as compared to other tofu dishes I usually have.

These were the 4 dishes we ordered and shared. All the food were of very high standard and we were very satisfied with it. Though the restaurant was kinda crowded and busy, we felt grateful that we were given much privacy and sweet time slowly enjoying our meal, and we never at all encounter any negative experience as mentioned in some of the reviews we saw on Internet.

It was indeed a great experience we had at Sushi-YA, and we would like to thank Ying & Ke for such a nice dinner and quality time with you guys. We are excitedly looking forward to our next visit together, and we'll make sure this time it'll be on us.

What a great day we had today! *^_^*

Phobia

"I will just grow my hair, and make a pony tail."

And this was from a cute colleague of us, K, a decent, yet funny man.

K had recently developed this phobia towards getting his hair cut. It was due to several unpleasant experiences he had with the barber shops in Sydney, where he was not entirely satisfied with his new haircuts. He thought he looked silly with the overly short haircut, though we thought it was not really that big a deal and he actually looked quite smart with it.

The other day, we went to Eastwood to do our grocery shopping together, where he happened to mention about his hair getting long and he was thinking of getting a haircut. However, he was obviously still being haunted by those past experience, in which he ended up just wandered outside the barber shops, hesitated, and left. It was then that I realized he indeed does mind a lot about his haircut, which kind of surprised me.

In my experience, for most of the men in their middle age, who’s settled down with a family and kids, who’ll just go shopping with slippers, shorts and T-shirts, who have started developing a tummy, would usually no longer care much about how they look physically, well not as in the sense of cleanliness of course, but it would seem to me that they would just not care much anymore about whether they have a good haircut or if they still look handsome. Just like my daddy, he would just simply visit any barber shop which offers the cheapest price in town, as long as they can get rid of the excessive hair and make him looks ‘tidy’, even though it would mean that he will get a good laugh from us when coming home with bad haircuts, he would be totally fine with it~ LOL

Anyway, now that I know my view was not entirely true. At least it isn't applicable to every man in that group. In fact, it seemed that everybody has got their own insecurity and phobia towards something, it is perfectly normal, and it doesn't really matter that much. What really matters is, whether one has the courage to admit it, the gut to face it, and the effort/will to overcome it.

And that's from where, we grow, and become stronger.

Have you got a phobia to share? :)

我的烹饪分享 - 瓜菜类。豆类。豆腐篇

- 瓜菜类 -

超爱吃蔬菜的我，青菜，瓜类是每餐不可缺少的菜肴，从最简单的蒜头清炒，到配料丰富的大杂烩，炒sambal等，都是我的最爱~

** 蘑菇红萝卜炒菜心 **

** 牛肉片炒芥兰菜**

** 豆豉姜丝炒苦瓜片 **

** 蘑菇红萝卜炒上海小白菜 **

** 清炒菠菜 **

** 清炒小白菜 **

** 三巴酱炒蒜苗 **

** 虾米辣椒干爆茄子 **

** 清炒小包菜（很爽口哦~）**

** 虾米炒包菜 **

** 酱油蒸茄子**

** 清炒Zucchini **

** 南乳蓮藕 **

** 杂炒zuccini**

** 豆腐干炒白萝卜**

- 豆类 -

羊角豆，乌龟豆，罐头青豆和罐头茄汁豆，皆是比较容易处理的豆类，所以我喜欢（尤其是羊角豆和罐头青豆），呵呵~

** 清炒乌龟豆 **

** basil三巴酱炒乌龟豆**

** 鸡蛋茄汁豆 **

** 鸡腱炒青豆 **

** sambal虾球羊角豆 **

** 清蒸羊角豆 **

** 红辣椒炒羊角豆 **

** 小咸鱼炒豆芽**

- 豆腐类 -

冷冷的豆腐，淋上香喷喷的热蒜油或自制的肉酱，简单又美味。

** 肉碎冬菇豆腐 **

** 蒜头油冷豆腐 **

我的烹饪分享 - 预告篇

屈指一数，我飘洋过海到悉尼已经7个月了呢。咦，也就是说，我当了煮饭婆，也有半年多了嘞~ ~（照一照镜子看看脸有没有变黄先。。^.^）

想当年（怎样，去年不也是归纳为当年咩），刚来到这里的时候，我对烹饪还是蛮半桶水的，会弄的料理寥寥无几。初报道的时候，我和beng也都是过着那种咸鱼白菜也好好味的自爽日子。咔咔~

然而，当个好煮妇向来都是我的兴趣和自小的愿望（我知道我很有大志, hehe），只是碍于之前一直没有天时地利，所以迟迟未能实现。过来这里后，终于可以拥有完全属于自己的厨房，我的快乐烹饪天地。厨房虽然很小，烹饪用具也有限，但已经够我发挥啦，至少它可以纵容我在烹饪上不按牌理的尝试和研究，哈！每每厨房的门一拉上，就是我和食材香料们的private moment, 一次次的满足感，在厨房门打开的同时，和食物的香味一起漫延到家里的每个角落。

一直想把每日三餐的作品记录起来，结果一拖再拖，愈积愈多，已经没办法一天一篇的写了。或许在接下来的几篇里，我将它们分门别类的归纳起来，然后以总结的方式在这里分享就好了。

而一些比较特别或值得介绍的菜肴，我稍候再逐个把详细食谱一起po上来，希望与大家共勉之。嘻~ ^.^