Archive for January, 2009

Chinese New Year 2009 – family reunion dinner

My family celebrated Chinese New Year last weekend with a delicious family reunion dinner. This year, Mum cooked just one of the dishes – the must-have chap chye, which consists of cabbage, mushrooms and other fungi, beancurd skin and vermicelli. I’ve loved this dish ever since I was a child. We were all very pleased […]

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Crispy chicken noodles dry style – guilty!

This was such an unhealthy lunch! J and I have been craving this dish from Munch Terrace (Shop 6, 230 Hay St, Corner Bennett St East Perth) for sometime. We’d actually gone to Munch in the week after Christmas with a craving for these noodles with crispy fried chicken and were devasted (OK OK, maybe […]

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Breakfast fried rice

Last Tuesday morning I woke with a craving for fried rice. Since I wasn’t packing bento lunches (my workmate J and I had made plans for lunch, coming up in the next post), I had time to quickly rustle up a batch of fried rice. I used cooked rice we had in the fridge, SPAM, […]

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Red curry chicken

Dinner last Monday night: red curry with chicken and lots of vegetables (potato, sweet potato, broccoli, onion and green beans). Jac used red curry paste from a jar – Valcom brand, I believe. I think I prefer Thai green curry to red, but this was very tasty. My favourite curry dishes (in no particular order): […]

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Dinner and bento – Nile perch and salad

The dinner Jac panfried Nile perch fillets and served them with salad. She bought the fish fillets frozen; they turned out lovely. This is another one of the meaty, white-fleshed fish I enjoy so much. The bento I woke on Monday morning to rumbling thunder and flashing lightning. I think a loud thunder crash woke […]

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Old favourite

Every now and then, I cook myself my old favourite dish of fried SPAM with egg, Heinz baked beans and rice. And even if I’ve had the crappiest of crappy days, I always feel at least a little better as I enjoy this comforting savoury meal.

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Saturday food

For a recent Saturday breakfast, Jac cooked bubble and squeak using the leftover roast potatoes, cabbage and peas. I like eating bubble and squeak with lashings of tomato sauce. I took this photo before my liberal saucing, though, so you’d be able to see the bubble and squeak properly. :) We went to shops at […]

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Celery salt chicken escalopes

Dinner a couple of Friday nights ago: chicken thighs pounded flat with a meat mallet, then rubbed in celery salt and panfried. Jac served these chicken escalopes on a bed of lettuce, with fresh tomato and cucumber. She cubed up the last of the leftover roasted vegetables, and sprinkled dried chives on top. We ate […]

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Breakfast at 44 King St

Last Friday morning, I met up with my friend Chad and had breakfast at 44 King St in Perth. I haven’t been there for years – I think the last time I went to 44 King St, I was in my early twenties. A workmate and I went there after work. It was a hot […]

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Thursday night dinner at Spencer Village

Another recent meal at Spencer Village (Spencer Road Shopping Centre, Thornlie – thanks, Aussie Tourist :)). I had char kway teow from Penang Foods. Jac had a salmon sashimi set from the Japanese stall, which comes with vegetable and prawn tempura, California roll sushi, and salad. Sorry, not many words tonight – I’m very tired. […

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