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Amazonico Restaurant🐒🌿🍍

Amazonico in Mayfair

It was an amazing experience dining at Amazonico Restaurant in Mayfair. The food was fantastic and they are all BBQ style and you can taste the smokiness from the charcoal. It is a Latin America style restaurant. The atmosphere is lively with very good service and they have live music too. 🍾 🎉

Food is unique, we had frog legs and lots of seafood. It is quite expensive, but it is a nice restaurant to have a special celebration. I enjoyed the restaurant and I will definitely return. 🍾 🥥 🌴

My Besties!
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Louie Restaurant 🦞 🦀 🍸

I heard so much about Louie Restaurant in Covent Garden since it opened not long ago. I decided to give it a go and see what the food and atmosphere is like.

The menu is mainly seafood with some meats and vegetarian options. The price is quite expensive: the starter is from £14-20 and the main is from £23-55 and the dessert is from £10 onwards

I took my friend there and we had a special king prawn starter, which was amazing. It has lots of flavours, crunchy texture on the topping but also spicy. The main course I chose Seafood Combo. There were king prawn, monfish and sausages with a very rich sauce. It was full of flavours and tasty. Loved it. We had a bottle of wine and 2 cocktails. They were all good 🍷 🍸.

We went to the third-floor bar and terrace for more drinks. We tried to take pictures but was told off not allowed. It apparently has lots of celebrities and Royal members here. It had DJ there to play music and the atmosphere was amazing. This is a perfect place for a date or something special you would like to treat your friends.

Louie Restaurant in Covent Garden
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Happy Birthday To Me!🎂

28th March was my birthday 🎉🎂, and we were still in Lockdown. I had my second birthdays in Lockdown😔 Sadly I couldn’t celebrate with my besties, but it doesn’t matter – I rather we are getting out of Covid soon.

Birthday is all about sharing love and happiness!😄🍾️ I home-made some Italian food and had a fun day with family! 😄

  • Champagne Celebration
  • Halloumi Pasta
  • Grilled Courgettes with feta cheese and walnuts
  • Super happy
  • Italian starters
  • Ragu beef pasta
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Homemade Canapés 🦞🍄🍗

Ingredients:

  1. Lobsters meat (I used the 2 claws) 🦞
  2. One avocado 🥑 (smashed with bit salt and pepper, squeezed a tiny bit lime juice)
  3. Chestnut mushroom (6 medium one, finely chopped)
  4. 1 clove of garlic 🧄 (finely chopped)
  5. Fresh sashimi (used whatever sashimi you prefer, salmon I used, finely chopped)
  6. Fried chicken or chicken nuggets for the little one.
  7. Few cucumbers 🥒 slices and chopped
  8. 2 tea spoon double cream, few tiny cheddar cheese, 🧀 lemons thyme, tiny Mayo, black sesame for the end for decoration and flavours.
  9. The casting is from Croustades from Waitrose. (You can pop the croustades into the oven for 3 minutes for extra crispy) I served it cold this time.

Cooking:

  1. Boiled the lobster claw 5-8 minutes – depends how big for your lobster. 🦞 Removed the shelf and picked out the claw meat, put a bit salt and pepper for seasoning.
  2. Put tiny butter to fry on the pan, put the chopped mushroom into the frying pan, put 2 tea spoon double cream in, and season with salt and pepper, once cooked, put aside.
  3. Put all the mashed avocado mashed into every croustade, put some lobster meat, mushroom, fried chicken and salmon sashimi into the croustade.
  4. Lobster meat I put some lime zest, put some cheddar inside the mushroom with lemon thyme; put the cucumber for the fried chicken, put some tiny Mayo and sesame into sashimi.

You can put and create anything that you like to eat for a tiny canapés. The total time was around 30m.

Enjoy them with a glass of champagne 🍾 🥂!

Canapés with Champagne!
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Lobster Noodle 🦞🍜

Ingredients:

  • One lobster (1-2 people) Raw or cooked one all fine.
  • Garlics (4 cloves, finely chop)
  • Gingers (4 pieces, chopping into long pieces)
  • Spring onions (chopping into 3-5 cm long)
  • White onions (1 small onion, finely chop, optional)
  • Chilli (few pieces – optional)
  • Thick egg noodles (2 packs for 2 people)
  • Some greenery – broccoli or any green vegetables at home
  • Chilli bean sauce (Doubanjiang, 豆瓣酱）1 teaspoon
  • Black bean sauce (Garlic black bean sauce) 1 teaspoon
  • Cornstarch (2 teaspoons with 50ml water mixing with it)
  • 3-4 teaspoons light soy and 1 teaspoon dark soy
  • Sprinkle some white pepper

Methods: (Easy – cooking time 20-30 minutes)

  1. Clean the lobster and chop of the head off, and using the back of your knife to ban the claws shell opened, put aside.
  2. Boiled some hot water and put the noodle in when it is soften after 3-4 minutes. (see the package instruction)
  3. Medium heat on the pan, put 4-5 teaspoons vegetable/seeds oil into the pan, put all the chops garlics, gingers, spring onions, onions, chilli and fried it until it has all the fragrance and changing colour a bit.
  4. Put the clean lobster into the frying pan and stirred it a bit until it changed into pink colour.
  5. Drained the noodle, washed it with cold running water, and put aside, so noodle won’t be soggy.
  6. Put the chilli bean sauce and black bean sauce into the pan, all the soy in, then cornstarch in, quick stirred few more around, add the noodle and veggies. If it looks too thick, add a bit water to loose it up, and then tasted it and see how is the seasoning, and finally add some white pepper.

Enjoy! 🦞🍜

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Easy Japanese Ramen日本拉面 🦐🍜

I found a brilliant Japanese ramen recipe from justonecookbook Chef Namiko and if you love Japanese food as much as I do. Please check her website, she is brilliant. Easy cook recipe and tasty authentic Japanese food. This ramen broth recipe is from her, but I got some twist to do my topping, is a vegetarian broth base, and you could top up any toppings as you wish. Namiko’s Kimchi Vegetarian Ramen is the base broth of this recipe.

Ingredients:

  • 500g large prawn or tiger prawn
  • 1 knob of butter
  • 3-4 cloves of garlics, chopping into fine pieces.
  • A bag of small baby spinach
  • 2 pieces of gingers
  • 500ml unsweetened Soy milk for 2 people
  • 1 tea spoon of Chilli bean paste
  • 2-3 tea spoons concentration dashi soup (I got it from Japan centre here)
  • 2 tea spoons of Miso
  • 2 tea spoons of soy

Methods followed by Namiko san here.

Topping:

I simply put a knob of butter, fried the chopped garlic, until it changed into golden colour, then put the clean – washed prawn into the frying pan and season with salt and pepper about 2-3 minutes, when all the prawn has changed into pink colour, not more grey colour. Then it is done. While the frying pan is still hot, put the spinach on the side, it will soak up all the prawn juice and only take 1-2 minutes, it will be done. Easy!

For the perfect ramen egg is here. Or quicker version I boiled the Clarence Court Burford Free range Eggs for 6 minutes, then put into ice bath for few minutes, then put all the eggs into a soy bath (soy, sugar, water) like Namiko did. It always works!

You need to do the eggs one night before, or at least 3-4 hours. The recipe is around 20-30 minutes maximum.

It is our weekly menu when the weather is cold. Perfect for a bowl of ramen.🍜

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Sea Blue 🍹🌊🥥🍍🍋

I found Sea Blue recipe from Liquor.com, however, I used my own measurements with a bit twist and adaption, as home-made, sometimes we don’t have all the ingredients at once.

  • 2 shots (50ml for 1 shot) of ocean vodka (or normal vodka)
  • 30ml of Malibu coconut rum
  • 50ml of blue curaçao
  • 10ml lemon juice🍋
  • 30ml fresh squeeze pineapple juice🍍 (or normal pineapple juice)
  • Coconut ice cubes 🥥 (prepare one night before) coconut water with a bit coconut cream, mixed them together and put into ice cube moulds overnight)

How to shake it:

  • Chilled the glass, wet the glass edge using the lemon slice, then dip some coconut flakes as a ring. I don’t have coconut flake today, so I used lemon salt instead
  • Put all the ingredients together with the coconut ice cubes and shake them until icy cold (blue meets yellow become ocean colour, great colour)
  • Put more coconut ice cube or normal ice cubes into the chilled glass and pour it into glass, garnish with pineapple wedge and the orchid flower (I used one that just fell off from our orchid pot) or you can get some edible flowers instead.

It tastes amazing – fruity, coconut and feel like you were on holiday! 🏄‍♀️⛱️🌞

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Cocktails 🦜🍹

Jungle Bird Cocktail 🦜

  • Dark Rum 2 shots
  • Campari 1 shot
  • Blood orange syrup (or liquor) 1 shot
  • Fresh pineapple juice 50ml
  • fresh lime juice 10ml

Yellow Sunshine ☀️

  • Gin 2 shots
  • Blood organge Liquor 1 shot
  • Fresh pineapple juice 60ml
  • Lime juice 10ml

Ma Tai 🍹(from Jamie Oliver)

  • 45ml spiced rum
  • 25ml coconut-flavoured rum
  • 1 ½ parts Bacardi Carta Blanco
  • ½ part Cointreau liqueur
  • ¼ part lime juice
  • 1 ½ parts pineapple juice
  • 1 ½ parts orange juice
  • 1 dash grenadine
  • 1 part Bacardi Carta Negra
  • Cubed ice
  • To garnish: Lime wedge & mint

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Easy and Quick Chicken Curry Katsu 日本咖喱鸡趴

Ingredients:

  1. 2 pieces of chicken breasts or legs (traditionally is better to use pork chop, but chicken is healthier)
  2. 60g-100g Japanese panko
  3. 1 egg
  4. 3 big spoons of flour
  5. Easy Katsu sauce or any Japanese Curry sauce cubes （I have all tasted them, and they are pretty good, easy and tasty)

咖喱鸡趴饭🍛：

  1. 2片鸡胸肉/去骨的鸡腿肉
  2. 日本的面包糠
  3. 1个鸡蛋🥚
  4. 3汤勺的面粉
  5. 超市容易买到的Katsu咖喱酱,或是日本牌子的咖喱酱

How to Cook:

  • First cut the chicken breast in half, I use knife quickly slice on the surface – just few slices and season salt and pepper on top each side. Two chicken breasts will become four thin chicken breasts. (It will cook easily too)
  • Do the coating: coat each chicken piece in the flour and shake off any excess flour, then dip into the beating egg mix and then coating with the Japanese panko, and make sure all the chicken surface all coating with panko.
  • Pour some sunflower oil into the frying pan – around 6 big spoons, in medium heat. Wait for 2 minutes when the oil is heated, then put all the coating chicken into the frying pan. Normally I can do 2-3 pieces at once time.
  • When they cook around 2-3 minutes then flip into another side for 2-3 minutes.
  • When the chicken is firm and panko looks brown, you know it cooked.
  • Heat up the Katsu sauce and some vegetable and serve with rice. Simple and easy. （if you are using the Japanese curry sauce, just use one cube, then put 300ml (1/2 cup) water into boil, then put the cube in and keep stirring until it is all dissolving into sauce; if you need to add more water, please do so. )

如何煎咖喱鸡趴：🍛

  • 先把1片鸡胸肉/鸡腿肉切成2小片，假如家里有锤子可以锤下鸡胸肉，这样容易煎也容易熟；没有锤子的话可以在鸡胸上面切几小刀，然后调味，下盐🧂下胡椒 -两边都要调味哦。
  • 鸡肉沾点面粉，不要太多，然后沾下鸡蛋汁，最后沾日本的面包糠，记得两面都沾均匀就可以啦。
  • 中火，下6汤勺的油，油下后等2分钟就可以煎啦。两面都煎2-3分钟，因为我们切小块，很容易熟的。面包糠变成金黄色就可以啦。
  • 最后把咖喱酱汁煮熟，煮点蔬菜🥬配饭，就可以啦。假如你是用日本咖喱酱汁的，倒300ml (1/2) 杯水煮开，然后把日本咖喱块 – 1块放入水中，搅拌煮成汁就可以啦。简单30分钟日本咖喱鸡饭就可以吃。

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Easy 20 minutes Mapo Tofu (meat or vegetarian)

简单20分钟麻婆豆腐🌶️（肉或是素肉都可以）

Ingredients:

  • Silky tofu one pack (or any white tofu) 一包软/水豆腐
  • Mince port meat (100-200g) or Quorn mince meat for vegetarian 100g （猪肉碎100-200g,或是素肉Quorn牌子的都可以）
  • 2 pieces gingers – finely chopped (2片姜片剁姜蓉）
  • 2 cloves of garlics (2片蒜剁成蒜蓉）
  • 1 green spring onion – cut into small pieces (1条葱，切小粒）

Sauce: (调汁）

  • 2 tsp Chilli bean Sauce – Medium heat🌶️ (if not into spicy, 1 tsp) (2汤勺豆瓣酱,假如不爱吃辣的，1小汤勺就好）
  • 1 tsp Garlic black bean sauce (蒜蓉豆豉酱1汤勺）
  • 1 tsp Oyster sauce – optional （if you are vegetarian, you can skip this one) （1汤勺蚝汁（假如你是素食的人就不要下）
  • 2 tsp Soy sauce – light soy (2汤勺酱油 – 普通酱油）
  • 1 tsp Sugar (1小汤勺糖）
  • 1 tsp Sesame oil (1小汤勺麻油）
  • 2 tsp Corn starch (2小汤勺玉米调羹）

How to cook: (如何烹饪）

  • Combined all the sauces into one bowl and prepare the sauce
  • Drain the tofu and cut into about 2.5 cm cubes
  • In the frying pan – medium heat, put 3 tsp vegetable oil and fried garlic and ginger, once changing a bit colour and you can smell the fragrant, add the mince pork / Quorn Mince into the pan, and break it up. For mince meat, cook it until a bit golden colour, and not too much water inside the frying pan. Quorn one once it is changing colour from frozen, then you add the sauce.
  • Keep stirring and add the tofu in
  • Try to avoid breaking up the tofu, gentle stirring until it is all covered by sauce and mix well, add some spring onion before turning off the heat.
  • Served with any rice

(I cooked Quorn Mince Mapo tofu in my picture.)

  • 把所有的酱汁调好在一个碗里
  • 中火🔥，3汤勺油把蒜蓉和姜蓉爆香
  • 放入猪肉碎 / 素食的放入Quorn 素肉，假如是猪肉，炒均匀，然后收水或是肉边上煎得一点金黄色之后再下汤汁；Quorn的变色或是炒香解冻就可以下汤汁啦。
  • 搅拌汤汁和肉均匀之后，下豆腐
  • 轻点搅拌不要把豆腐搅碎，继续搅拌，等滚了收汁
  • 然后在关火🔥之前下点葱粒就可以啦。
  • 配着白饭吃是最香的。
  • Vegetarian Mapo Tofu