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Marutama Ramen

Have been eating at Marutama Ramen for quite sometime. They have 2 branches: Central and Liang Court. Aka ramen is considered one of the latest ramen they have launched. Japanese ramen usually comes with char siew, but this Aka ramen served with 3 chicken balls. Shoyu egg is an ala carte order. Chicken balls can also be ordered from the ala carte menu. Before you start digging in, squeeze the lemon into your soup. It gives the soup base a refreshing lemon smell and taste. Marutama’s noodle is distinctively different from many other stores. They are thinner, less soggy therefore firmer and curly.

The very first time i eat at this ramen store when Central first open, i din really like it. I remembered back then they only have 3 or 4 ramen types to choose from. You can either add lemon, egg, spring onions to your ramen that’s all. I think i ordered the normal one with additional spring onion. The soup is oilier than i expected. I gave away my char siew to Lester and i’m left with whole bowl of noodles and spring onions. I wasn’t used to Japanese ramen at that time, i only know Aijisen. One of the characteristics of such authentic ramen is that the soup usually has this layer of oil from cooking the poultry bones for soup. After my 2nd visit, Lester introduces me to other soup base and the ala carte selctions, then it changes my impression totally.

The must-try shoyu egg here. A little runny on the inside… Something that i want to achieve.

Marutama Ramen at Liang Court
Aka Ramen
Chicken BallShoyu Egg
Shoyu Egg (Inside)

Straits Kitchen

It’s really harder to meet nowadays. I think this is only our 2nd gathering this year, 1st one on Serene’s wedding in February. 我们都很忙 hor。Anyway, it’s a random poly gathering. It’s great to see these people again.

We are engrossed with diving. There are currently 5 divers in our click. Hopefully the rest can become one next year. We talk about oversea trips and hence lead to spending money. We are still unconstructively crap. Blah blah blah~

Straits KitchenStraits Kitchen EntranceInteriorDessert Bar that is closer to usQin’s belated graduation bear from Laily, Lester and me
Qin and LailyQin, Laily and me
Serene is gobbling her food
Everyone

More photos on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=137394&id=671344551&l=d3ee50b0de

Sapporo Ramen Miharu

One of my recent cravings is Ramen. Visited Sapporo Ramen Miharu at Gallery Hotel. Heard this is one of the few authentic Japanese Ramen set up in Singapore. The shop is pretty small. Inside can only occupy 4 groups of people and some counter seats. For smokers, there are non-aircon seats outside. Gallery Hotel seems to be populated with Japanese dining, there are other Japanese dining tenants open too.

I find the noodle is more like Santouka, the thicker noodle type. Generally the ramen portion is quite big. Sapporo’s ramen has a few more different soup bases to choose from:

Tokusen Miso (Special Blended Miso)
Miso Tonkotsu (Special Bleneded Miso Pork Flavored)
Ohkara Miso (Hot Spicy Miso)
Miso Tsukemen (Miso Cold Noodle)
Wabusi Shoyu (Fish Based Shoyu)
Tokusen Shoyu (Special Soy Sauce)
Tokusen Tonshio (Special Pork Flavored Blended with Salt)
Koumi Tsukemen (Soy Sauce Cold Noodle)
Dsshi-shio
Miso
Shoyu

Each ramen comes with half a shoyu egg, char siew, corn, bamboo shoots, spring onion and seaweed. However, most of us did not finish the soup because we find it too saltish to our tasting. Shoyu eggs here are almost thoroughly cooked to the yolk. I will prefer a little runny inside. There are also more different sides dishes to choose from compared to Maratama Ramen and Santouka Ramen. Char Siew Don comes in a small bowl but it’s nice. Leek omelette reminds me of the Guo Tie (锅贴) and pork gyoza is juicy, thumbs up! Tokusen Shoyu soup base is soya sauce taste with no miso i think, that explains the color of the soup. Leroy’s Miso Tonkotsu tastes like peppery mild Bak Kuh Teh. Tokusen Miso soup base tastes a little nutty.

Sapporo Ramen Miharu Ramen

Char Siew Don

Char Siew

MenuTokusen Shoyu (Special Soy Sauce)Miso Tonkotsu (Special Bleneded Miso Pork Flavored)Tokusen Miso (Special Blended Miso)

Leek OmeletteLeek Omelette (Close Up)

Hokkaido Fried Pork GyozaHokkaido Fried Pork Gyoza (Close Up)Yellow capped is vinegar and they have special blend pepperSpecial Blend PepperTokusen Shoyu (Special Soy Sauce) Remaining

Miso Tonkotsu (Special Bleneded Miso Pork Flavored) RemainingTokusen Miso (Special Blended Miso) Remaining

Desaru Trip + Long Tongue

Lester is always ahead of me, he has blogged about the Desaru trip we spent over the weekends. It is relaxing in a way, the Gan Clan Association has kept the itinerary simple and we are well taken care of by the organisers.

As usual, you spend most of the time sleeping on the coach when travelling to Malaysia. I get bored easily and started playing with my tongue. My tongue is long and pointed but Lester’s one is like short and bui bui~ Maybe that’s why he speaks faster while mine is too long and i always drip my saliva when asleep.

Caught.Lester has short and fat tongue.Diao me~Starwars shit~Loves table cloth.Durains~ Yum~

Shoyu Eggs 3

I have made a total of 6 eggs previously. I eat 1 myself, brought 2 to Lester and the rest are gobbled by my family. Anyway, i told my sister to take pictures of these eggs before eating, just want to know the outcome of the yolks.

So the rest of the eggs are so cooked too.

Wah~ Why she eats so 补? 1 shoyu egg and 1 put into the soup.

Shoyu Eggs 2

The judgment day, after soaking my shoyu eggs overnight. Exterior has that brown appetizing color, inside still too cooked. !@#$% First bite, the sauce is too saltish. On the other hand, i am more relieved as they do not have weird soya sauce taste just because i can’t find Kikkoman and replace it with 李锦记. The yolks are still not in the centre.

Looks nice?

The egg really absorb in all the sauce. See the color gradation in the cross section.

We decided to throw away the yolks.

Some improvements to make:

Maybe buy those ang-mo’s white shell large eggs, i believe the yolks will be nicer.
Need to re-gauge the cooking time. Probably set it before the water boils.
Shoyu sauce must be less saltish.

Shoyu Eggs

Suddenly have a craving for shoyu eggs after Sunday’s ramen. I remembered Ken knows how to prepare them so i ask him for the recipe.

The process is tedious as you may still not be able to keep the yolk perfectly in the centre of the egg to prevent it from overcooking. Anyway, i think my 6 out of 6 eggs are all failure.

Trying to support the eggs so that they are vertically upright instead of lying down.

Looks fine right?

Noooo~ The egg yolk looks cooked and it is on top.

The rest of the likely to fail eggs.

“What are you doing? Anything for me to eat?”

Shoyu sauce: Soya Sauce, rice wine, sugar and some sesame oil. But my soya sauce taste weird… I don’t like.

Soak them overnight in fridge.

Read of another way of cooking the egg. So i tried putting it normally, keep turning the eggs hoping that the white on the side will harden first, shield the yolk inside.

This is the likely to success one. But i forgot to put salt into the water. Now the egg shell has a difficult time to be separated from its flesh.

Still fails…

My Condolences

Hope you make new friends in the other world to keep yourself accompanied.

I need to spend more time with my dog.

Man & Woman In Toilet

Lester pasted a HWZ link about man and woman in the toilet. They commented that woman’s urinal system is more advance than man. Below is extracted from the thread:

Woman

Open panties
Sit
Pee wee
Wear panties

Man

Open zip
Open underwear
Search for kkj in the black forest
Remove strain of kkj hair that got stuck
Open toilet seat
Aim
Aim again
Shoot pee
Shake kkj
Double shake to confirm all pee drop liao
Put back in underwear
Zip up

However i disagree with them leh. We never finish all these in 4 steps. We are also very busy in the toilet. Here is my version of woman in the toilet cubical:

Check toilet clean anot, flush again if it is unsightly
Hook our bag
Clean the seats thoroughly
Some clean liao still lay toilet paper around the seats
Open panties
Sit
Pee wee
Fart also, coz chio bu dun fart in public
Scratch scratch
Meantime, take some toilet paper
Period season: take out pad ready to change
Some sit for a while then clean after pee
Wear panties
Before leaving the cubical must check there is no obvious stains left by you, coz it leaves an impression about yourself when the next person comes in.

Photographers Are Not Easy

Realise photographer needs a lot of stamina to carry out their tasks. They hardly sit comfortably in front of their computer, unless they are are post-production these beautiful pictures. They run around, carry stuff, endless adjustment to the lights, the angles of perspective, their subjects and infinite test shots to make sure it just come out right. I’ve tried product shoots for my intern company, it is really tired~ I can’t remember how i fall asleep and i wake up this morning as though i had an extreme exercise yesterday.

I am excited about the new tripod, Vanguard Alta 203AP. With super cool functions like:

You can hinge your camera vertical down to take portfolio type of photographs. No more slanting sides and books tilted at angle difficult for cropping.

You can also further open the legs, get ultimate close to products on the table, with 2 legs on the table and camera still supported by 1 leg on the ground. Good for really small objects when you want details and not just zoom zoom zoom.

Anyway, i just want to show my messy desk.