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He loves Japanese cuisine.  I love Japanese cuisine. He read Master Chef Murata’s featured article about his book “Japanese Home Cooking” and am tempted to buy it. We love the fact that his recipe is fuss free, using readily available ingredients and looks yummy with great reviews!

Yoshihiro Murata, one of the most accomplished and respected figures in Japan’s culinary world, has combined his expertise and artistry with his enthusiasm for teaching Japanese cooking to create this exciting new book. Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata presents over sixty healthy home recipes, from classic to modern, ranging from popular restaurant offerings like yakitori, tempura, and shabu shabu to typical home dishes like onigiri (rice balls), miso soup, and tonkatsu fried pork cutlets. “

All of the dishes can be made using Western kitchen tools and ordinary ingredients readily available from the supermarket; if a more exotic ingredient is called for, Murata suggests alternatives. And, while he strives to retain the authenticity of a recipe, he also recommends ways for the Western chef to adapt it. For example, in a number of the recipes, he suggests using high-quality store-bought chicken broth, which is also used in Japan, instead of traditional Japanese dashi stock.”

- Amazon.com

He made me buy it and I made him promise me to whip up the dishes we both love!

With $30 dollars I get to eat up to 60 Japanese home cook dishes! It’s a great deal! Hee.

Chako

Restaurant Chako
134 West Coast Way
Hong Leong Garden Shopping Centre
Singapore 127064
Tel: 67763919 / 67764613

The last time we visited Restaurant Chako was in Feb 2009. More than a year later, we visited it again. It was just as good and as expected the wait was terribly long (at least 45 mins to an hour) but well worth it. You can view my review here back in 2009, the points are still valid other than their new improved menu which comes with English translation. Hah.

Yan Yan.


Yan Yan is one of my favourite childhood snacks and it still is one of my comfort food! Tried this Mango flavoured Yan Yan I got to say, I prefer my Yan Yan in Strawberry! HAHA

He brought me to Dozo for my birthday dinner. It was beyond my expectation. It was really good! Dozo is a modern fine dining Japanese restaurant at Valley Point which specializes in Japanese-French cuisines. It was good, it was more than good, it was amazing!

This is not a table ornament. This is edible. A snack in between the 7 course dinner. It’s actually Japanese noodles.

We each had one of these to cleanse our palate before we start our dinner.

Starter

We each had a platter of starter. This was good but not amazing.

Cold Dish

Hers: Succulent king crab claw salad drizzled with sesame vinaigrette

Awesome.

His: Tataki with shaved parmesan and truffle mayo mosaic

Awesome.

Side Dish

Hers: Tempura battered soft shell crab on galette of mash

Average

His: Gratinated escargots topped with yuzu butter

He almost flew to heaven.

Soup

His: Crab bisque

It was so good!

Hers: Infusion of cepes mushroom and truffle

OMG.

Main

His: Herbs-braised lamb shank

He is in food heaven at this point.

Hers: Beef tenderloin on “pu-ye” and granite hot stone

THIS IS THE BEST! The beef just melts in my mouth. Hmmmmm.

Dessert

Hers: Freshly baked warm chocolate cake served with ice-cream

I flew to heaven grinning like mad!

His: Dozo’s “mo-cha” crème brulee

Yummilicious!

Drinks

His: Iced grapefruit melody

Hers: Iced fruity refresher

A nice refreshing drink to end the dinner. It was perfect and Dozo’s staff made it even better with this complimentary cake!

Their service was superb. Responsive, knowledgeable and friendly, they are true blue service professionals.

Thank you love for everything! I love it!

A quick shout out! Magnum is having one for one sale! It’s nation wide and I believe it’s a month long sale! While stock last! This is a once a year sale so don’t missed this chance! In my opinion, Magnum is slightly overpriced if not for the sale, I won’t have buy it! HAH.

Dim Joy

My family celebrated my birthday at Dim Joy (my sister recommended this place after reading Lady Iron Chef!) ! It was yummilicious but a tat pricey!

Thank you sister! Love her new center parting hairstyle! She carries it well! As for my new bangs, I’ll talk about it in another post! HAH. Some drool worthy dim sum!

I love my crazy family! It’s a love hate relationship. HAH.

I while back I met up with the Tabeem gang at Sapore Italiano at Raffles City! It’s nice catching up with them and I kind of miss school life!

Sorry for the crappy photos. It’s from my pathetic iPhone 3G (I need an upgrade!).

This is their must try! Carbonara! The other pasta and pizzas that we ordered is rather average.

I love meeting up with the girls. Great food at Professor Brawn Café at a great price.

Love it when the girls come back from holidays! I need a holiday too!

We are so blessed to have girlfriends with awesome boyfriends! Lennel got us girls these badges. CW is always purple and SA is always pink. Lennel decides to allocate who is Little Miss Giggles and Little Miss Sunshine! The conclusion? I am Little Miss Giggles because he cannot imagine SQ giggling! HAHA. Thank you Lennel (I will be writing a thank you post soon, closer to date. hee)

*Picture of us girls*


It is quite rare we didn’t take any pictures of ourselves that night and this is one of those rare moments! HAH.

After dinner we headed for desserts and played a game with SA. A game to analyze and evaluate her love life. We called it “Learning Journey” (OK. We are not creative. Yawn)

Picture is intentionally blurred to protect the privacy of the various parties.

Great company. Great “real life” catchup session (we talk via email all the time)!

Love the girls to the bits.

Found these mini ang ku kueh near our training centre. So cute!

We went out on Friday to celebrate Jingwei and Victor’s birthday again! There is always a reason to hangout and celebrate! We ate at Marche and it was my second or third time eating Marche. The crowd on Friday evening is crazy! We queued for nearly an hour and a half just to get in! Our second activity only starts after eleven so we decided to just hang in there despite the long wait.

Their rosti is good but I don’t think it’s worth the queue! Anyway, I’m glad we hang out as friends (instead of during work hours)! We had a lot of fun and should definitely do this more often!

Love strawberries. Love tarts. Love strawberry tarts.

Love strawberries. Love lemonade. And you know. I love strawberry lemonade!

We only took one picture outside our secret second activity due to some unspoken house rules. I’ll upload it when Stephanie sends it to us! Hee.

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