日本大好き - My First Bento Box

 I always envy so much of the bento box you saw on Japanese drama where mum usually make for their kids at school or wife makes it for husband. And on my recent trip to Japan, I bought some bento making books and found it so interesting and tempted me so much into making a bento box. And here I use the most common bento box dish hamburger steak that I just made and some potato salad and other vegetable to make it look nice and delicious.

日本大好き - Juicy Japanese style Hamburger Steak

 I remember I promise to bring back some inspiration I got while I was traveling in Japan and now I am trying my best to show you what I’ve learn so far. One of the funniest thing in Japan is that their restaurant usually only sell one type of cuisine or dish, such as my favourite ramen place, they literally only sell one single flavour and they have shop all over Japan. I found this is quite amazing to be honest, as long as you make the best food of the kind you can totally survive by just selling one thing.

日本大好き - Strawberry Daifukumochi いちご大福餅

As an Asian, the usual cake that we grow up with is a little different with western, as we tend to heavily reply on various types of rice flour, and starch on our sweet and savoury snack. And one of my all-time favourite even since I was a kid is Mochi. Mochi is usually referred to any glutinous flour products but in Japan, mocha is generally referred to any traditional cake.

What I love the most of these Mochi is the chewy texture, traditionally the chewiness was made from continuously pounding from cooked rice to paste. But now a day, thing was so much easier for us, you do not need to pound til you sweat to make these delicious traditional Mochi, all you need is just a microwave and it will be ready in less than 30 minutes.

日本大好き - 30 minute Yakitori Don 焼き鳥丼

The other night I was looking at one of my favourite Japanese Food Blogger- justonecookbook and suddenly so craving for some yakitori which in English mean grill chicken skewer. But it will be too much hassle to setup a grill just to make some chicken skewer, so Instead of grill, I pan fried it. I love yakitori so much and I always order it at my favourite Japanese restaurant, but I consider it pretty expensive if you order it at restaurant while it actually very easy to made and can be done in 30 minutes.

J’aime le macaron - Matcha Macaron with Matcha Red Bean Filling

Since my 5^th trip to Japan is 5 weeks away, I start getting really excited about it and keep looking and planning what I’m going to buy or eat when I get there. I have to say I’m a big fan of Matcha (Green Tea) and red bean, anything sweet have these ingredient will immediately catch my eyes. And as you know those ingredient is also a very tradition and common in Japanese cultural. I would say no one make better confectionary than Japanese when it involve matcha and red bean, it is like a perfect match when you put them together. The bitterness of matcha neutralised the sweetness of red bean, so I thought to make a fusion style of French crossover Japanese Matcha Macaron with Matcha and Red Bean Filling.

Matcha Red Bean Creme Brûlée

April had been a crazy week for me as I had 2 exams at the end of the months that why I haven’t been updated my blog for a while. But now finally the busy has gone and May is already here, this year have gone so quick, it already been 4 months since I started blogging and thankfully I got lot of compliment and support from everyone which is what keep me going.

日本大好き - Japanese Honey Cake カステラ

It about 2 months ago when I first start blogging, I made Japanese Honey cake which is also named as カステラKasutera for my first blog. I’m sure I had express enough my passion about Japanese cuisine with my previous post Warabi Mochi, and all of sudden I just craving so much of my favorite Japanese Honey Cake. Kasutera or Japanese Honey cake is very popular in Japan, as my previous blog post said they even have store are famous on just selling one type of cake.

日本大好き - Warabi Mochi (蕨餅)

Last Sunday I brought my parent to try the Ippudo Ramen at Westfield which was delicious and yet fatty (most fatty food is yum). And which remind me of my previous holiday in Japan. So later the night, I was craving for something glutinous sweet but don’t want to get fat from eating late at night. So I made this guilt free confectionary which very popular in Kansai area of Japan during Summer time. Also one of my must eat food whenever I travel to Japan.

2014 New Years Revolution

After all those encouragement I received for the past few months, I decided to give myself a challenge. In 2014, I’m going to start a blog which going to record majority my favorite recipe, travel destination and anything I love and cherish in life. The original idea is for me to start an online cake shop, however at this stage of my life I really can’t make too much commitment in it. But I believe my dream of having my own patisserie will become true one day.

Now I should start on my very first blog post in 2014. And my revolution is to post at least one recipe every week. So I was wondering what should I write for my very first post? And I finally pick this recipe that I had fail couple of times before and finally I did it OK job (I think I can do a better job next time).