From their menu, you can infer that they get quite a lot of gaijin tourists, because there’s a helpful guide in English on how to eat soba. What’s missing from the guide though, is the most important fourth step: slurp the noodles as loudly as possible.
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Kyo Kaiseki in the heart of Gion
Having a Japanese kaiseki meal is an experience in itself, and there is no better place to enjoy it than in Kyoto, where it originated.
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Teppanyaki at the butcher’s shop
Where do you go for nice but reasonably-priced Kobe beef teppanyaki? First, you take the train to Kobe. Second, you opt for lunch and third, you choose a butcher’s shop that also happens to run a restaurant upstairs.
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Crab diem, seize the crab!
The Wife and I are huge crab fans and satisfy our cravings at various seafood restaurants in Singapore — chilli crab, black pepper crab, steamed crab, curry crab, crab beehoon, cold crab — you get the idea. So when we found a restaurant in Osaka that served crab kaiseki, we had no choice but to go.
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The best chicken rice in Singapore
Let’s say there is one chicken rice shop for every 1,000 people living in Singapore. Given a population of about 5.6 million, there should be around 5,600 places selling chicken rice. And among all these places, Sinn Ji Hainanese Chicken Rice makes the best one in Singapore.
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Making Mommy Oh’s Korean tofu pancakes
Tofu is one of our favourite foods and The Wife keeps a ready supply in our fridge. When we saw a recent video from Mina Oh’s Youtube channel sweetandtastyTV showing her mother making Korean tofu pancakes at home, we decided to give it try.
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Frozen chapatti three ways
This is the season for frozen food and I was on the lookout for some prata. I couldn’t find any in our friendly neighbourhood 24-hour NTUC Fairprice downstairs, but I did notice their house brand frozen chapatti. Close enough.
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Quarantine + BBQ Delivery + Amarone = Meh
It was Day 25 of the not-lockdown and I wanted to bust out our bottle of Amarone from the vegetable compartment. And since Jerry’s BBQ now does deliveries, we decided to order some meat to go along with it.
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One duck was harmed in the making of this post
Back in the day when planes were in the air and international travel was possible, we had the most amazing duck tasting menu in Yilan, Taiwan. It’s been four years since then, but we still can’t forget the best duck soup we’ve ever had in our lives.
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Could home hydroponics be the new normal?
The Wife and I have always been interested in growing our own vegetables, but it’s been challenging given that we live in a small apartment with no balcony and no direct sunlight. Given that we’re stuck at home these days, The Wife decided to give it another go. But this time, she chose the simplest of vegetables — taugeh.
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