Yummo. My gf and I attempted this dish for the first time over the weekend and it turned out quite well considering. Chicken tastes the best when it tastes like chicken, and Hainanese Chicken is the one of the best ways to accomplish such a feat.  I won’t post the recipe yet as I would like to do justice to this well known dish by mastering it some more, you could always google it if you are that keen.

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My girlfriend and ventured down to the Gold Coast for easter weekend. We had the pleasure of dining at a small Japanese restaurant one night and were thoroughly impressed by the excellent service and food. We found it weird that they were playing hip hop/R&B music though!

We munched on some kimchi to begin with and they apologised for taking their time with the rice and the sushi. I loved the sushi with its melt in your mouth flavour and texture. They apologised again when they brought out the pork dish which I can’t remember the name of. It was a while before the fried chicken teriyaki came out but at least the waiters told us how long it was going to take and apologised again…When the service is good you don’t really mind waiting a bit longer I guess. The night before we ate at a Malaysian/Chinese seafood restaurant where the service was rather shit by anyone’s standards and came to the conclusion that they were all a bunch of assholes minus one girl who was running around like a mad rabbit serving and seating customers.

Lightly boiled tuna, avocado and mayonnaise sushi. I ate one before I remembed to take a photo….

Immaculately cut strips of pork in some kind of sauce. I think it was a chilli sauce or something, whatever it was it was quite nice.

And fried chicken teriyaki, again I only remembered to take a photo after a few pieces had been eaten. One day my teriyaki will be this good! I’ve sourced some decent sake so I will give it another go this week.

I don’t recall the details of the place we ate at unfortunately, but I would eat there again without a doubt.

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Sorry for the lack of updates, it’s been crazy busy here lately. My darling made me her delicious mapo tofu last night, I gobbled it up like I hadn’t eaten for days. She likes her chilli so she made it nice and hot. Yum.

And some green beans with miso dressing I made last week. I was supposed to use toasted sesame seeds but didn’t have any on hand, it still tasted nice with roasted sesame oil used as a substitute. Quick and easy too.

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