Lunch/dinner in Johore Bahru with RI cohort

It was an excellent trip to JB with the RI cohort .
Started off from "monitor's" place at Springleaf area by having our favourite Roti Prata and Teh Tarik etc at 7:30am.

The Malaysian coach picked the 14 of us at 8:30am.

Arrived Jusco Terbau City just before 10:00am. We were given 2 hours to do our shopping and sipped our Cappucino, Caffe Latte etc with donuts at J Coffee. We left Jusco and arrived at Sungai Rengit  for a seafood lunch.

After lunch, we went to JB City to do our shopping again for about 2 hours. Some of us gathered at our favourite ToastBox coffee joint for a kopi and chit chat session.

The coach picked us up and proceeded to Pekin Restoran for dinner at 6:30pm. It was a 45 minutes ride. Evening traffic was heavy.

At Pekin Restaurant we ate a yummy dinner of Suckling Pig, Roasted Duck, Fish etc etc. The food and ambience here is good.

After dinner, we left for the Causeway check point and returned to Singapore.

Cost of the trip:

• Roti Prata breakfast and cost of transport plus tips for the driver: S$30 each
• Lobster seafood lunch at Sungai Rengit : S$ 40 each
• Dinner at the famous upmarket Pekin Restaurant : $25 each

Total = $ 95 each. The trip and the great company is worth the time and money spent.

We may do this again but instead of JB, we may want to visit Malacca.

BT: Sorry no photos for the dinner session.

Brunch Porridge, Dinner Curry Mutton Rice

Premium Dried Scallop Porridge

This porridge with dried scallop plus slices of fish and cuttle fish in a claypot can fill up to 3 bowls. Aone is the name of the restaurant at Nex Mall. It gives a 50% discount on certain menu like the above from 10:30am to 5:00pm.
If you do not want the peanuts and the glass of water you will save $2. I paid a total of $8.55.
The porridge is delicious but a little oily. The restaurant has a nice ambience. Service was good.
Overall: Worth the money spent.

Japanese Yong Tau Foo-- Oden

Oden is a Japanese winter dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon, konjac, and processed fishcakes stewed in a light, soy-flavoured dashi broth. Ingredients vary according to region and between each household. Karashi is often used as a condiment.
Oden was originally what is now commonly called misodengaku or simply dengaku; konnyaku or tofu was boiled and eaten with miso. Later, instead of using miso, ingredients were cooked in dashi and oden became popular.
Oden is often sold from food carts, and most Japanese convenience stores have simmering oden pots in winter. Many different kinds of oden are sold, with single-ingredient varieties as cheap as 100 yen.

Exchange rate is S$ 1 = 89.5 Yen
                         US$ 1 = 115 Yen

$500 of noodles sold in 3 hours?

This bowl of fish ball noodles cost $3.50. The stall is in my neighbourhood and it also sell prawn noodles, laksa and other varieties of noodles. The stall is owned by a brother and 2 sisters. They do the noodles themselves except for 1 worker.
The other day I overhead them talking about the amount of sales they did in just 3 hours of a weekday morning. Gosh it was about $500. By the time they closed in the night it would amount to at least $1,500 of sales. Minus the costs of rental,their salaries as well as the worker's salary and the raw material I guess they make around $1,000 a day. Multiply that by 30 days they would make $30,000 a month. They worked very hard and not only their food is good, they are very nice and polite people.
My wife and I frequent this stall at least twice a week.

Food sold in supermarkets, Japan

S$1 = 88.9 Yen

Wagyu Beef from Japanese supermarket

 Oiishi!

They had Ramen for supper in Japan

Ramen is a Japanese noodle soup dish. It consists of Chinese-style wheat noodles served in a meat- or (occasionally) fish-based broth, often flavored with soy sauce or miso, and uses toppings such as sliced pork , dried seaweed, kamaboko, and green onions. Nearly every region in Japan has its own variation of ramen, from the tonkotsu (pork bone broth) ramen of Kyushu to the miso ramen of Hokkaido.

Home-made pizza toasts & green apple for my dinner

It is pouring outside and so decided to eat at home. The above dinner menu is simple and nutritious. It does not fill my stomach completely but dinner should be light. The pictures showed 3 slices but in reality it is only 2 slices of the pizza toasts.

Champon Noodles from Japan, Oishi..!

A crew just sent me the above photo of the lunch she ate in Japan. It is called Champon. Champon also known as Chanpon, is a noodle dish that is a regional cuisine of Nagasaki, Japan. Due to the inspiration from Chinese cuisine, it is also a form of Japanese Chinese cuisine. Champon is made by frying pork, seafood and vegetables with lard; a soup made with chicken and pig bones is added. Ramen noodles made especially for champon are added and then boiled. Unlike other ramen dishes, only one pan is needed as the noodles are boiled in the soup. Depending on the season and the situation, the ingredients differ. Hence the taste and style may depend on the location and time of year. Source: Wikipedia.