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Basil pork

Yakisoba

หมูน้ำตก Spicy pork salad

What we need:

- Pork loin

- Cilantro

- Green onion

- Mint leaves

- Shallot

- Lime

- Chili flake

- Fish sauce

- Roasted ground rice

Roast the pork loin until it's cooked

Slice the pork and mix green onion, shallot, fish sauce, a bit of sugar, a lot of lime juice. It should taste sour and spicy.

Put a bit of rice seeds on the heated pan without oil. Wait until it's brown then put into the grinder. Grind the rice a bit for a few minutes so it breaks down into pieces.  The mix in the rice pieces, Mint leaves and Chili powder. Stir well in a large bowl.

Top with Cilantro and ready to serve. OMG YUM!!!!

แกงเผ็ดปลาดุก Spicy catfish

What you need:

- Red curry or Hot curry paste (4 tbsp)

- Thai egg plant (optional)

- Vegetable oil (2tbsp)

- Chilli

- Cat fish

-Coconut milk

- Fish sauce

- Bamboo shoot

- Pepper seed

- Basil leaves

- Lime leaves

On medium heat, mix the curry paste with vegetable oil.

On the side, cut egg plants and prepare fish, chillies as below.

Back to the pot, put 1 cup of coconut milk and mix well.

Boil fish in the water for 10 seconds to get rid of fishy smell.

Put bamboo shoot (from a can), egg plants, fish into the mix of curry sauce.

Add 2 more cups of coconut milk and put on high heat. Don't stir too much or fish will fall apart.

One fish is cooked, put in Basil leaves.

and pepper seed. I also put in ginger but it's really not necessary.  This is the step where you mix a bit of sugar and fish sauce to the taste you like.

Slice lime leave and put in the end.

Here it is OMG YUM!

Steak yakitori

This might not be the best in town but at least I got the taste and texture right.

What you need:
- New york steak 1 lbs

For marinating sauce, each skewer will use different sauce.
- Soy sauce
- Wasabi (I used a wasabi in a tube)
- Miso paste
- Hawaiian BBQ sauce
- Teriyaki
- Ponzu
- Curry powder + salt
- Garlic + Pepper + Soy sauce

See picture for some brands I use below:

p.s. the apricot jar is actually a hawaiian sauce I got from my friend :D

Start with getting a meat ready by cutting it into a strip shape thick enough to put on a skewer. I usually cut across so each stick will get both skin/ fat/ meat part.

Make sure the meat is thick enough to stay on the stick.

Start putting the sauce of your choice into the skewer. You can do multiple sticks at a time if you like.

Wrap the meat and let it marinate for at least 2-3 hours. I label all of them so I know which is which. After the meat are well marinated, unwrap them and try to dry off any excessive sauce to make sure it's just damp and not soaking wet otherwise the sauce could burn. 

Now it's time to cook. Preheat the broiler for 5 minutes with the empty broiler pan inside. Open the oven, put the sticks on the pan then back into the oven. Let each side cook for only 1 minutes then flip the other side. If you like, prepare the veggie of your choice like in the pic below.

When it's done, arrange on a plate nicely and avoid stacking different flavors together. OMG YUM!!!

Shoyu Ramen

Preparation time : aprox 3 - 4 hours

Ok, I need to admit that I never made a successful soup noodle before. But somehow this dish came out much better that I expected.

Ingredients are

-Ramen noodle. I used fresh noodle so it's more chewy.

- 1lb Pork belly

- 1 Green onion

- 4 cloves of Garlic

- Ginger

- 1 sheet of dry seaweed

- 2 cups of Chicken Broth

- 1 cup of water

- 1/4 cup Soy sauce for braised pork another 1/4 for soup (I used Kikkoman)

- 1/4 cup of Mirin

- Sugar/ Splenda

- 1 or 2 Egg(s)

- Cabbage (optional)

There are 2 parts for this dish: Braised pork belly and Shoyu soup.

Brailed pork belly:

Before you start, if you want, you can remove the skin and scrape out the fat to be used for a soup.

- Mix garlic, ginger (about 4 big slices), 1/4 cup of soy sauce, Mirin, and probably 2 table spoon of sugar. Add 1 cup of hot water and mix together, then put the pork into the mixture. Make sure the pork are at least 3/4 submerge.

- Preheat the oven to 275F. Close the pork bowl and let it sit in the oven for 3 -4 hours. Turn the pork over probably every hour.

                  Pork is ready

The meat should be very tender.

 Shoyu soup:

- Mix 1/4 soy sauce, 2 cups of broth, 1 cup of water in a pot. Also as an option, you can breaks all the fat from the pork and mix into this soup. Heat until it boils and put on warm heat.

adding pork fat in here

Now to get a nice boiled egg with runny yolk, put the egg into the pot on high heat. When the water start boiling, leave it there for another 5 - 6 minutes then remove the egg and cool down with cold water.

Assuming the pork is ready, boil the noodle for 2 minutes, veggies for 1 minute then put everything in to the bowl and finish with a Shoyu soup. Top with sesame seeds, chopped green onion and seaweed if you like.

and then we are done. OMG YUM!