so.ba, soo.ba, soooooo.BA!

one of my little snacks to have with tea~ it’s really TINY! about the size of a £1 coin (perfect size if it were an amuse bouche ^.~ ) . but it packs a real sugar punch! awfully sweet this one is…

ah, but the sugar is not doing much for me…am proper knackered now.

*rolls around*

got up bright and early to read before meeting suzanne to eat myself silly at rasa. walked around as a tourist (which worked because i got sooooo many offers to help me get photos with buildings! lol!) then had people over for a ‘house-viewing’ xD and then had tea, followed by 3 rounds of shisha, before having more tea and literally breaking into a house then having even more tea to round things up.

now, i just want to vegetate abit before bed. so…yeah~

*snoozes*

 

yo! …sushi?

no prizes for guessing what suzanne, simon and i had for lunch today at liverpool ONE

…

 

yep yep~ kaiten-zushi! i was desperate for some unagi and since Yo Sushi! was having a summer discount special (40%) i figured it was a good chance to try out the restaurant. It was rather expensive though! 4 plates of food and one refillable cup of tea had left me £9 poorer after the discount

(=_=)

 

 

but! but! i had gotten my unagi-fix!

(i didn’t care how it tasted)

 

 

and there was poached salmon too~ which was ok except for the dill which usually is wonderful with salmon….but…doesn’t go particularly well with sushi rice. 

 

 

dessert followed soon after though…it was a Mango & Kiwi Cake that had melted under the intense spot lights that lined the conveyor belt (^-^); it didn’t taste like mango OR kiwi….kind of like a tangy mouthful of artificially sweetened mousse really…well, at least it looks pretty?

so! the dining atmosphere there was good…just~ i’m no sushi expert but i’m convinced that it could really do WAYYY better with the flavour of the sushi. however, there was a major lunch crowd so they must be doing something right…that said, i’m in no rush to go back anytime soon~

 

busy busy~

the living room everyone wants. 

ahhhh~ we can dream can’t we?

anyhoo, andy volunteered to drive us to ikea yesterday (^-^)b for lightbulbs (which we didn’t find) and jam (which we did)! we ended up with a toilet seat as well…lol!

it was a good day…haix, but there’s always trouble in paradise lar…pissing sia…would be telling the biggest lie if i said i wasn’t. honestly lar…GRRRR! OK, FORGET ABOUT IT…

opz…capslock abuse (^-^);

so, it was apparently a very eventful night, but i missed it because i was napping. good thing i did to a certain extent because i would have been even more pissed. but long story…not worth elaborating because recounting it will only make my hair grow whiter. 

nonetheless, we still made a trip down to the fish market at the crack of dawn in old swan to well… get some fish.

my baby!!!!!!

i’m absolutely in love~ i think it’s wild salmon leh. (^-^); bad simmie…BUT IT’S AMAZING!

none of that tesco crap (and it’s even cheaper! just inconvenient to get to) 2.5~kg of unadulterated omega 3 fats…its absolutely beautiful and is marbled! come on~ what supermarket salmon is marbled? only chore was scaling it~

first thing i did was pan fry the salmon on it’s own…it didn’t need anything! so i volunteered to do dinner (^-^);

 

Rice (which i timed wrongly and was a bittttt soggy)

a kilo of teriyaki salmon

kinshi tamago

blanched spinach with dashi and soy sauce, topped with bonito flakes

(white) miso soup with fish cake

 

everything was ok, except for the rice which was a disaster! xD sorry lar, jen was supposed to help, but the poor girl had to do something she hasn’t done in awhile….SLEEP! 

oh oh oh oh! Jen made carrot cake (at midnight?) !!!!! it’s mind blowingly amazing! it’s been more then a year since she made it lar! (^-^)b it was gone too fast for me to get a picture of it…but, hell, i’m going to pester her to make more soon.

and one more update~~~

i’ve chopped off the hair! (^________^) been waiting FOREVER to do this…it was a well spent 30quid…it’s a lopsided bob-ish cut that the housemates are comparing to victoria beckham…m(_ _)m the hell. 

shoo! i love challenging hair stylists~ with my strange egg-shaped head and thick THICK hair…xD the previous one in singapore had shaved a whole row of my hair away to make it thin and natural looking. (^-^); this time, the lady was so apologetic (like she was doing it for my own good), but i had told her it was ok~

anyhoo, off to do work…i’m never going to get stuff done on time! *panics*

 

eggy supper

tonight, the house took a trip down memory lane…japanese style…xD

chage and aska? i honestly havent heard of them and save for the chorus of that one popular song, i was absolutely clueless~! 

ah well, watched japanese tv (NHK world) all night in the living room…browsed youtube for music videos after this japanese music request show which was entirely in english (j-melos?) strange~ but they had recent music with stuff by fukuhara miho (^-^)b i like her~

sushiiiiiii! there was a short programme on sushi!!! *drools* we waited for the cooking show to come on…they only cooked chirashi zushi, but that was enough to spur both andy and fend into action…hahahaha! we made usuyaki tamago and had a slicing competition to see who could make the thinnest kinshi tamago that’s used in chirashi zushi…

I WONNNNNNNNNNNN! hahahaha, it was more like hair then egg if you ask me… chiffonade~ how i hated having to practice it over and over again with chef breathing down my neck…well, it came to good use tonight…(^____^)v

and nope, no pictures m(_ _)m no mobile phones on hand that had memory for using~ ah well…fun times~

tomorrow, we’re planning to head to ikea~~~ since andy’s renting a car, i’m going to try my luck at getting some cloudberry jam in the ikea just outside liverpool (only leeds has it apparently T-T) jen’s getting a lamp and i don’t know what the guys plan to do there…swedish meatballs? heeeeeeeeeeee (^-^)/

got ZERO work done tonight again, but i’m doing it right now…will finish this chapter before i hit the sack…

i’m off!

 

nami nami-ness

Ramennnnnnnnnnn! fresh ramen from Japan which santo’s dad sent over. 

yum yum!