Jap Food...

Bro just left for France for 2 weeks for work. So nice to be able to fly around for work (and for free) I'm so envious! Haha.

Yesterday was mummy's day. Dear came over and helped me with the Japanese cuisine that I wanted to make for mum. Well, its been about 10 years since I last made sushi, so I almost totally forgot how to do it. Luckily those recipes can be easily found online.

Out of the 3 dishes that we prepared, the agedashi tofu turned out to be the best. Its surprising how easy it was to make this dish.

There were 3 types of sushi that we made. Unagi, Prawn Roe and Crab stick. It was during the making of this sushi then we realised that making sushi ain't as easy as it looks. It really takes a lot of skill to make nice sushi, not to mention good tools as well (a super sharp knife is damned important, no wonder the katana is renowned for its sharpness)

The tempura was a failure. Ha ha. All thanks to mum for giving me her (thai) 'tempura' powder and messing up my original recipe. Well, I was getting a bit lazy to manually make the mixture already, so I tot it would be a nice short cut to use the (thai) tempura powder. The shrimps turned out to be just like ur standard fried prawns instead of tempura ebi. Lousy. Haha. Will attempt to do it properly next time.

Now I understand why Japanese food ain't cheap. Their ingredients are damned ex. Think making this meal costs me well over $50. (but not all is spent on one meal, there are plenty of leftover condiments and talc rice). Hope mum likes it

Luckily dear was around to help me to make this. If not I dunno how long would I take to finish preparing! Thank you dear!

Home-cooked Jap Food anyone? Damned free loaders, bring your own ingredients! I ain't loaded!