Tempura

Tempura sounds very difficult to make, probably, but actually if you know the temperature of oil and how to fry, it is not so difficult.

This is Renkon(Lotus roots), Carrots, Thin Asparagus and prawns.  You make a light batter with normal flour and cold water.  Just dip vegetables and prawns and sliding into the oil.  The oil should be around 180 degrees Celsius.

You can eat with tempura sauce to dip in.  I like to sprinkle a very good salt such as Guerande salt.

Bolognese Sauce

There are so many kinds of Bolognese recipes.  I sometimes follow the someone's recipe or make my own with what I have in my fridge.

This is a very traditional Bolognese sauce from my grand father.  He was a really good cook and very modern guy.  He tried a lot of western dishes.  He taught to my mom and she told me how to make this.

The recipe is used minced beef, but I mixed with minced pork and thin sliced beef.  I chopped thin sliced beef so it has a great texture.

Salad

I love vegetables and I love Salad.

This is the salad I had for lunch at David Jones.
You can choose 4 kinds of salad out of 10 kinds for a plate.  I chose this salad.  Wow, it was amazing.  So delicious.  One of them was Moroccan style salad.  Very nice!

I wish Singapore had a shop like this.

Perth, Australia II

The restaurant we went the last night of our stay was really trendy and nice by the river.
This is the view from the restaurant.

The atmosphere was great!  That day's special, sea food platter.

I had barramundi with macadamia sauce which was delicious!

I am not a big fan of sweets, but my family love all kind sweets.  They ordered this!

I had a shot of sambuca with a few coffee beans.  It's my favourite after-dinner drinks:)

Perth, Australia

We were on holiday in Perth.  I've been to Sydney before, but it was a first time to trip to Perth.
The sky was so clear, blue and beautiful and of course, Australian wines are excellent.

I had a lot of nice wine from Margaret River and some really delicious food.

This is appetizer, soufflé with goat cheese sauce with pears.

Main dish was prosciutto and cheese rolled by chicken on corn risotto.

I forgot to take the desert photo.  It was very tasty.

Inside Out Roll Sushi

This is not a really popular sushi in Japan, but I read and heard that it is a popular sushi in US.  I guess because it looks bright and only a bit seaweed inside.

I wanted to put crab meat, but couldn't find a fresh one so instead of that I put salmon, avocado and shiso/ooba(Japanese mint leaves).

Maitake Miso Soup

Miso soup has a lot of variations.  I like simple one like this.  It's Shiitake Mushroom and Maitake Mushroom.  Maitake is popular in Japan, it's white colour and woodsy aroma and meat texture.  It also contains Vitamin B and calcium and magnesium.  It is good for diet.