FOOOOOOOD

This is dinner at my favourite japanese resturant – Nagae

Oh my.. the food is not like the general Japanese resturants around the neighbourhood.. this is THE BOMB.

Our individual setting

They let us choose our own sake cups

First dish: Some… marinated squid thingie

Next: Some fish innards. Haha. Left is fish liver, right is fish stomach. The fish stomach is one of the most exquisite I’ve ever tasted. It’s silky in texture and a little smokey in taste because the chef used a blow torch to glaze the surface.
(Click below for an individual shot)

 

Chawanmushi. Every little detail was paid attention to. Even the prawn was perfectly peeled. I can only imagine the poor cook in the kitchen peeling all the prawn to such perfection (Because I’ve been there, and I wasn’t even half as meticulous).

Freshly arrived salmon roe. The chef (Alex) topped the salmon roe with fresh parsnip and quince peel to offset the saltiness of the roe. Such thoughtfulness!

Sashimi. Extremely extremely stunningly fresh and sweet. Nothing like those from sushi tei.

Oysters. Tastes okay… oysterish. I’m not a huge fan of oysters.

 
Some pickled vegetable to eat on the side. It’s salty, a little sour, and crunchy.

Sanma fish. Also nothing like those from sushi tei. The meat on this one is so smooth and so delicate. Packed to its fins with Omega-3 oil.

Sushi soup! A must-have!

 
Dessert. Left is green tea ice cream with azuki, right is sakura ice cream (MINE!)

The chefs at the sushi counter – Left is Nagae-san, right is Alex

 
Nagae-san and I, taken during the previous time we were there.

   
Hannah Little miss specky and I

       
Brother in law with Justin

 
Brother in law and sister

Sister and sister

Girl power

Family

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And a few days later, I volunteered to cook for Ling and Ting for one of our almost-weekly dinner together.

First course: Baked eggs and tomato

Main course: Mashed potatoes and chicken stew with hearty vegetables

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Taboo-ed

Please remind me never EVER to mention my travel plans to anyone anymore because it seems that everytime I do, something will happen and my precious travelling plans will be dashed.

Which, in turn, makes me a very very frustrated person.

 ARGH.

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Felix the Kat

My friends from school say I look like this (and only in particular to this picture) -

And they’ve been calling me Felix intermittently for the past .. 6 months?

I reaallly beg to differ. Haha.

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Life in the Blue – BBC Motion Gallery

 

I love it!!

The artistic direction is really interesting such a genre of documentary. And I love the shrimp on the sea cucumber and nudibranch!!

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In entirety

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Travel + Photography = Wall

Me is very proud of my travel photography wall.

I think I’ve managed to encompass most of the significant places that I’ve been. There’s diving in Sipadan/Kapalai and Dayang (didn’t add Burma Banks in though it was a fantastic trip), there’s Cambodia, Chinese paintings from Shanghai, New Zealand, Sikkim, and Alaska.

-Beams-

 

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Zzz

 

Need. sleep.

Currently fueled by sugar.

 

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Currently on my wall

 

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