Boiled Cabbage with Shintake

Ingredients:
1. Caggage
2. Shintake mushroom
3. Dried Bean Curd
4. Cooking oil
5. Chinese soy sauce
6. Fish sauce
7. Meggie sauce
8. Oyster sauce

How to:

Cut a cabbage in to 6-8 pieces before frying them in cooking oil till it turns a little brownish. Add shintake and continue frying. Add one or two bowls of water. Let it simmer for 5-10 minutes before adding in the bean curd. Boil around 20 minutes till the cabbage is soft as the way you like.

American Fried Rice

Ingredients:
1. Tomato
2. Onion
3. Capsicum
4. Raisin
5. Cucumber
6. Rice
7. Tomato sauce
8. Oyster sauce
9. Meggie sauce
10. Fish sauce
11. Sugar
12. Salt
13. Butter
14. Cooking oil
15. Eggs
16. Ham
17. Chicken


How to:

Stir fry all the vegetables with ham in butter and vegetable oil. Then, pour in the rice. Stir them all up and add all the sauces. Slice tomato and cucumber and put them on top together with sunny side-up fried egg. For the fried chicken, marinate it with Chinese soy sauce, oyster sauce, Meggie sauce, salt and fine sliced garlics before frying and / or baking till grilled.

Pad Thai (ผัดไทยกุ้งแช่แข็ง)

Ingredients:
1. Egg
2. Prawns
3. Dried shimps
4. Bean Spouts
5. Sliced carrots
6. Fine-ground beans
7. Rice noodle
8. Sliced tafu
9. Sugar
10. Fish sauce
11. oyster sauce
12. Pad Thai paste

How to:
Leave rice noodle in warm water for 5-10 mins. Fry 'Pad Thai' paste with dry shrimps in hot oil. Add prawns, tafu, fine-ground beans, and carrots. Stir them all over before putting softened rice noodle. Stir fry and flavor with fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar. Put egg in at last and serve hot.

Stir-fried Garlic Plants (ผัดต้นกระเทียม)

Ingredients:
1. Garlic Plants
2. Oyster sauce
3. Chinese soy sauce
4. Maggie sauce
5. Sugar
6. Squid or calamari

How to:
Stir fry squid in hot oil. Add squid and all the sauces and sugar.

BBQ Pork (Mu Yang)

Ingredients:

1. Coriander's root
2. coconut milk
3. vegetable oil
4. pork
5. soy sauce
6. oyster sauce
7. maggie sauce
8. sesame oil
9. sugar
10. sliced garlics

How to:
Mix all the ingredients with pork. Leave it overnight before frying.

Hokkien Combination with Rice (ข้าวราดหน้าสไตน์ฮกเกี้ยน)

Ingredients
1. Calamari or quids
2. Diced ham
3. Sliced onions
4. Carrots
5. Oyster sauce
6. Maggie sauce
7. Chinese soy sauce
8. Korean sesame oil
9. Tapioca starch powder

How to:
Stir fry calamari and diced ham in hot oil. Add sliced carrots and onions and mix with oyster sauce, maggie sauce, soy sauce and sesame oil. Mix and stir tapioca starch powder in warm water before mixing into the ingredients. Stir fry till cooked.

Chinese Sausage Baked Rice (ข้าวอบกุนเชียง)

Ingredients:

1. Chinese pork sausage
2. Steamed rice
3. Dried Matsutake
4. Dried shrimes
5. Carrots
6. Onions
7. Oyster sauce
8. Soya bean sauce
9. Maggie sauce
10. cooking oil
11. sugar

How to:

Put dried Matsutake and shrimes in hot water. Leave them for 15 minutes. Cook rice and add some oyster sauce, soya bean sauce, maggie sauce, and cooking oil into the rice cooker. Cook them all for 5 mins before adding the water you have left from the dried Matsutake and shrimes. Cook again for 5 mins before adding in all the rest of ingredients. Then, cook again until rice is cooked all over. Allow the rice to simmer for 10 mins after it is cooked. Yummy!

Giving is receiving. You do it for your pleasure, not somebody else!

I think, I've heard an expression "Giving is receiving." somewhere before and that was long time ago the last time I heard that. I have to say long time ago because it wouldn't be easy to hear that very often, nowadays, especially during the digital age when we are all pampered by the aroma of capitalism and materialism, i.e. spending money seek for what we think is best for us, doing online transaction via the internet. With this concept in mind, we seem to focus only on ourselves and forget the fact that we all human beings live in the same world and share the same destiny. We most of the time think inside ourselves and that's why we sometimes suffer from happiness or sadness. I think it is wise to think out of ourselves for some time and look at others. As I said, all share the same destiny. That means people's happiness and sorrow are in some way linked to us by destiny.

So far as we have enough money to spend for all we need to pamper ourselves in the pond of lust and desire, we don't seem to care much about others. How can we give, not realizing the value of giving. Sounds a bit far from possible. I personally believe that people who give are those who suffered before in the course of their living and at some point realized the value of what they received from other people around them. That's how they learn the value of 'giving', not from the direct meaning of giving itself.

It was not until now that I really perceive this meaning -which could be true based on my direct experience. But since you're already reading up to here, I think you may be a kind of person who might agree with what I've said so far and I'm gonna convince you even more with further more examples.

When you give, you receive right away. There is no waiting for what you did to pay off and there is no use, actually, to do so. It's pointless waiting for the good deed you did to return as they say "What goes around, comes around." To me, you receive somthing right at the same time as when you give.

I have some reasons in saying so:

You have to know the value of 'giving' first before you will receive this kind of pleasure.

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I'm sleepy now. Time for a nap. This i s just my first draft. I'll finish an dproofread it later. Bye.

Stir Fried Veggies (8/10)

Ingredients
1. Carrot
2. Broccoli
3. Garlics
4. Oyster sauce
5. Fish sauce
6. Sugar
7. Cooking oil
8. Hot water

How to:
Fry garlics in cooking oil. Then, put slices of carrot, broccoli. Stir them all up and mix with fish and oyster sauce. Pour a bit of hot water to make it juicy. Serve hot.

Sweet Pumpkin ()

Ingredients:
1. Pumpkin
2. Thai Palm sugar
3. Salt
4. Coconut milk

How to:
Boil coconut milk in a pot. Put sliced pumpkin into the pot. Put palm sugar and salt as you like.

Buab Pad Kung Haeng (บวบผัดกุ้งแห้ง) 9/10

Ingredients:
1. 'Buab'
2. Dried shrimes
3. Garlics
4. Cooking oil
5. Fish sauce
6. Soy sauce
7. Hot water

How to:
Fry garlics with cooking oil and dried shrimes. Then stir fry all the ingredients with sliced 'buab'. To make it juicy, put a bit of hot water in it. I couldn't find the right word in English for 'buab'. Can anybody tell me?

Mu Pa (Crispy Pork Mince) 9/10

Ingredients:
1. Pork Mince
2. Garlics
3. Corn Flour
4. Salt
5. MSG

This is one my favorite menus that I loved very much when I was a child. I always had it before going to school. To find out the recipe for me, my mother even called the ex restaurant owner who used to sell this food.

How to:
Chop up the garlics into small pieces keeping some garlic peels. Stir all the ingredients with pork mince and deep fry it. The more flour you put in, the more crispy it will be.

This bridge behind us here was built by WW2 captives. Thousands of them lost their lives here during the construction. Now, it's just a tourist site.

Meaning of Life

Life is a process that keeps on going no matter what happens. Anything that seems to be so miserable shall pass and everything that seems to be happy will end. Unlike in the drama, there is no such thing as happy ending or sad ending. There is always life after that. There are lives after graduation, there are lives after marriage, and there are lives after lives.

Everything that comes into lives is just a point in the process of continuum, so just take everyday as it comes and do our best in that point in process. The world is not going to explode if you are called 'disabled' or if you are 'crippled', whatever it is, lives have not yet to end. Until we pass away shall we know the very end of our lives, so don't give up, just hang on to dear lives till we see the last scence where we shall sleep tight.

Chicken Galanga (Kai-tom-ka) 9.5/10

Ingredients:
1. Chicken
2. Galanga
3. Kiffirs
4. Lemon Grass
5. Chillies
6. Lemon
7. Coriander
8. Coconut milk
9. Onions
10. Fish sauce
11. Soy sauce

How to:
First, boil coconut milk. Then, put sliced galanga, kiffirs, lemongrass, and chillies before seasoning with fish sauce, soy sauce, lemon juice. Next put onions and let it simmer for a while.
Put coriander on top before serving hot with Thai jasmine rice.

Pork Mince with Hot Basils (กะเพราหมูสับ)

Ingredients:
1. Pork Mince
2. Hot Basils
3. Garlics
4. Capsicums
5. Fish Sauce
6. Sugar
7. Oyster Sauce
8. Cooking oil

How to:
Fry pork mince with garlics and capsicums. Then, stir fry with other ingredients.

Chicken Garlics (ไก่กระเทียมพริกไทย)

Ingredients:
1. Chicken
2. Garlics
3. White Pepper
4. Fish Sauce
5. Sugar
6. Oyster Sauce
7. Cooking oil

How to:
Fry chicken with garlics. Then, add other ingredients. Stir fry until cooked.

California Sushi 9.5/10
Gokhun and Hisae taught me how to make this. Today Gokhun and Hisae had planned earlier to make sushi for dinner today, but I didn't know so I coincidently bought salmon sushi at the shop. It turned out that sushi we made is much much better than the the ones I bought.

Ingredients:
1. Japanese rice
2. Vinegar
3. Avocado
4. Cucumber
5. Lettuce
6. Mayonnaise
7. Tuna
8. Roasted Seaweeds
9. Sweet omelette
10. Sugar
11. Sushi mat

How to:
Before making sushi, prepare two things: (1) rice mixed with vinegar and sugar, (2) tuna mixed with mayonnaise. Put roasted seaweeds on a sushi mat. Spread rice on top of seaweed covering 70 percent of the seaweed plate. Then, put sliced cucumber, avocado, lettuce, tuna, and omelette in the middle of the seaweed. Roll them up nicely. Then, cut with sharp knife into pieces. Serve with Japanese soy sauce and wasabi.

Fettuchini 8/10

Ingredients:
1. Fettuchini Pasta
2. Salt
3. Bacon
4. Mushroom
5. Pasta cream
6. Sugar
7. Onion

How to:
Boil Pasta in Salted water. Then, stir pasta cream with sliced pieces of bacon and mushroom. Then, put some slices of onion in the pot. Flavor pasta cream with sugar and salt. After the cream is boiled, pour it on top of the pasta.