Japanese meals and snacks

Japanese set lunch. Sweet miso mackerel, miso soup, rice and cold tofu

Lunch set is fried chicken in sauce, bamboo rice. Pickles and miso soup.

Green tea, chocolate and vanilla ice cream at Pinafore Maid Cafe

Giant rainbow Pocky (thanks A) in grape flavour 

Grape soft serve

Japanese breakfast with porridge

Sweetened mackerel jerky

Sweetened Wasabi rice cracker

Green tea kit Kat (thanks other A)

Hakone hot spring boiled egg (makes you live 7 years longer)

 

Dark chocolate kit Kat (thanks again other A)

Looks like a turd but it's a sweet potato pudding in cake. 

Green tea muffin with creme patisserie and red bean. Yay fusion

Casual eating in Japan

Gyoza

Vat of boiled goodies at a 7 Eleven

Ramen 

Thin sheet of egg on flavoured rice

Handmade udon in creamy caviar broth with chicken, prawn and scallops (ok not very cheap)

Minced raw tuna on rice

Ramen

Fried rice and cold tofu

Sesame coffee (delicious!!!)

Japanese breakfasts...

Traditional Japanese breakfast (top left clockwise: fried fish with pickles served cold, fried salmon, pickled vegetable and plum, fish cake with sauce, miso soup, cold tofu with bean shoot and peas, steamed rice, poached egg in soya jelly). Wow.

Now the set menu from Japanese restaurant in Royal Prince Park tower hotel.

Stuff I ate in KL

Indian Banana leaf meal

Lala (pipi's)

Dry wonton noodles

Assam fish

Hor Chien (cockle omelette)

Tau Fu Fah

Golden soft shell crab on curry leaf spaghetti

Jong Tau Fu (vege stuffed with fish paste in broth)

Popiah

Vegetable filling 

Ipoh Sar Hor Fun 

Ginger cat biscuits

Using my faithful gingerbread man dough recipe. 

Herman the German Friendship Cake

Hello my name is Herman.
I am a sourdough cake.
I am supposed to sit on your benchtop for 10 days without a lid on me.
You cannot put me in the fridge or I will die.
If I stop bubbling I am dead.

Day 1 : Put me in a large mixing bowl and cover loosely with a tea towel.
Day 2 : Stir well.
Day 3 : Stir well.
Day 4 : Herman is hungry. Add 1 cup of sifted plain flour, 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of milk. Stir well.
Day 5 : Stir well.
Day 6 : Stir well.
Day 7 : Stir well.
Day 8 : Stir well.
Day 9 : Add 1 cup of sifted plain flour, 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of milk. Stir well. Divide into 4 equal portions and give 2 portions to friends. Keep 1 portion for later and use 1 portion to cook me tomorrow
Day 10 : I am ready for the final stage.

Add the following to me: 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of sifted plain flour, 2 heaped tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 2/3 cup of cooking oil, 2 eggs, 1 tsp of vanilla esssence, 2 heaped tsp of cinnamon. Mix well then mix in 2 chopped cooking apples and 1 to 2 cups of sultanas.  Pour into a prepared cake pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup melted butter and 1/4 cup brown sugar on top of the cake, then bake for 45 minutes at 170 to 180 degrees Celsius.  Test the middle with a skewer.  You may need to cover with aluminium foil and bake for a further 20 minutes until set.  When baked I can be frozen.