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Snowangel: I love that recipe of yours:) I made it 3 -4 times and my host mum and I would gorged on them haha. Mine were a little chewy and yummy, not exactly crispy though . Very good:)

Dinner looked wonderful! I was going to guess markemorse earlier when you hinted about at an egulleter but I wasn't sure if you both are friends in real life too!

Yay for Chufi! I am really looking forward to your blog! Chufi messaged me last week that she was in Weesp a few weeks ago and saw the house I used to live in (posted the picture in my foodblog last year) and talked with my host dad! hahaha Can't wait to see what you'll be cooking the next few days:)

In 2003/04. Most days, we'd have a few lettuce leaves and some shredded carrots or just a tiny saucer of pickles or boiled spinach! This was in Gifu though so it may just be some regional thing. Hrhr with young people it's always okonomiyaki or Yoshinoya gyudon but dinner was mostly eaten at home .

Thanks for posting the picture, Hiroyuki! It's always nice to put a face to a poster:) You actually look A LOT like my English teacher when I was an exchange student in Gifu but you write much,much better English:D I remember eating very little vegetables when I was in Japan. Is that still the case now?

Hmmm, perhaps steak with potatoes and vegetables? Or a salad alone and to a smaller extend, pasta? (these foods are considered fancy food so it's usually eaten at a restaurant for lunch or dinner)

My aunt makes apom balik (sounds a bit like jemput? usually durian flavoured small,thick pancakes) sometimes and they'd have that with coffee in the afternoon. I don't care much for Malaysian pastries or kuih so I don't eat any! The only kuih I like is pulut teratai/taitai (the blue and white glutinous rice you eat with kaya).

I love eating Chinese leftovers when I lived alone in The Netherlands too. In Malaysia though, I nearly never eat leftovers because breakfast can be eaten very cheaply and taste even better than leftovers! For example, breakfast today was eaten at an Indian coffeeshop. My parents had teh tarik (pulled tea) and I had Milo (the unhealthy yummy kind with condensed milk etc yum) to drink, roti canai with fish curry and sambal(me), appom with some liquid coconut dip(mother) and roti telur with sambal and some dry curry chicken (dad). Here in Malaysia, warm meals are probably more common (however, only if you actually go out for breakfast which lots of people normally do) but plenty of people do take cereal or granola bars . Bread and sweet things like kuih, pastries and cookies are also normal. Anything goes really!

Oishii! Hiroyuki-san, would you post a picture of yourself?

Bruce (C.Sapidus), I wish I live in your house. I love warm Asian breakfasts and that fried rice looks AMAZING (everything you make is pretty much amazing but that rice *drools*..and those eggs mmm and your stir frys yummm)

Yes, Konnyaku is very popular here. I also made some in my foodblog. Very easy to make but looks pretty with fruits. See here: Go to Post #115

Hi Hiroyuki! I'm so glad you're blogging (I read your posts in the Japan forum). I'm sorry you're going through a bad period in your life. I'm really looking forward to your blog:)

My mum used to make spek koek (we call it layer cake) quite often when I was younger (not anymore because she says it takes too much time!). We always assumed it's from Indonesia. I've tried baumkuchen in Japan but it's not the same as spek koek somehow! My mum actually sent me her recipe (you might remember that I wanted to combine spek koek with weed in my eG foodblog ^^ ). It's in a black garbage bag somewhere in the garage;) I'll have to search for it but I remember it containing an obscene amount of yolks too!

I love the pictures of the supermarkets. Everything here is so small, I always have to pop in a few different shops to get all the ingredients (sucky when you don't have a car and can't balance on your bike with groceries;) ). Randall is adorable. I love red kitties and we're thinking of getting a ginger tom to be Flabbletje (world's dumbest cat name) 's companion ^^ Congratulations on the weight loss! You definitely have loads of will power! What's your target weight??

When I think of Dutch desserts, I always think of vlaai:)) Chufi posted her rijstevlaai in the Dutch Cooking thread (you might as well cook a full Dutch dinner for your grandma haha).

It's just, when a publication receives at least 10 restaurant invitations to eat for free each day , why would they pay to review one which doesn't? sure, they may pay to eat at a restaurant with a famous chef or a prestigious restaurant and review it but honestly, when the restaurant is a nobody, the magazine simply wouldn't. Doesn't make good business sense (and in the end , a magazine is a business)

I remember this one recipe from the chocolate and zucchini blog which was very chocolatey . there was only 1 tablespoon of flour in it and rose beautifully

I didn't read all the responses so if this has been said.... I used to work at a magazine and every single meal/review we did was paid for by the company (not the magazine company but the company wanting the review). We would receive invitations by fax, mail or email to attend a press conference and this usually equals a free meal and a gift (no gift if it's a restaurant). Mind you, that doesn't actually promise an article or a good review. While really bad reviews are not usually published, leaving it completely out of the magazine is very ,very common. I guess it's something you have to consider an investment . Restaurants with nothing special (good but not amazing for instance) or bad ones will get nothing written up or a tiny 3-sentence paragraph. p/s: Getting a professional photographer to take good photographs is a must. Most publishers won't send a photographer for a food review .

I've always wanted to try Girl Scout Cookies! Would anyone like to swap with me? I could send stroopwaffles (Dutch caramel syrup sandwiched in between some kind of waffle cookie)? PM me if you'd like to!

Great food as usual, Chufi:) Does your husband cook on your birthday then? Actually, can good cooks' partners cook? Seems to be like the cook often tell their partners to bugger off!

gong xi fa cai, ah leung! my chinese new year in holland was just like any other day whereas my family back home have been gorging themselves on great food ,cookies and all the other items. i really really miss suckling pork (the crispy skin gets me every time yum) and shark's fin soup. my chinese new year consisted of just peking duck and a horrid dish of stuffed forel (not fresh!) and it cost over 60 euros (incl 2 ice creams + 2 TINY bowls of soup+2 soft drinks).

Does anyone know of a place where I can have dinner for 15-25 euro (including tax+ a glass of house wine)? Just got 2 days off so will be heading to Antwerp tomorrow alone! It would be nice if the restaurant is ehm.. single-friendly (not in the opposite sex sense but just so i don't feel like a dumbass eating alone). Preferably close to Groeneplaats. It will be my first time alone and I'm scared:D But it should be fun and 24 hours isn't going to kill me.

i agree. don't tell customers that the brownies were frozen. she doesn't want to hear that and if they taste just as good, why bother? like #19 said, say " all our items are prepared daily "

not real italian pasta but tastes good + is very quick. fry chicken breast, add in vegetables (i use brocolli), then cream cheese and a chopped tomato. mash the tomatos and a dash of herbs (i use dried oregano but you really can use any italian herb) , add in salt and black pepper. tada

Malaysia! GREAT food, BEAUTIFUL beaches (on the East Coast.. Pulau Perhentian, Pulau Rawa etc. ..I must say that the food at the islands aren't great though).