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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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First restaurant since lockdown 🥩🍷🎉

2020 is a strange year. With global Covid-19 outbreak, we were all forced to put a pause in our life for few months. It has been very hard for everyone. We can’t see our family and friends; we can’t travel and have to work from home and home schooling for our children. It has been very tough for all business and especially all entertainment sectors.

We spent indoor for 3 months when everything was shut apart from essential shops. However, there are many positive sides during lockdown.We created many new hobbits, like baking, cooking, being an artist, a bartender, doing work out at home etc. It feels like forever, but I hope that everything will be slowly return back to normal.

On early July, the eased lockdown has announced. Two of my best friends and I decided to walk through Regents Park to our first restaurant L’entrecote in Marylebone with our kids. We were super excited and it felt so great, and it never felt so happy just to do normal things as we take for granted.

Steak was perfect with their signature sauce and crispy fries, service was as good as before. Comfort and no fuss lunch with kids. Loved it every moment. 🥩🍟🍷

Hope everyone stays safe and healthy.