Best Tempura Ever

Not only I like to cook; I like to eat out too.

So this is my favorite Japanese place ever ever ever. Their sushi is ok but ah man, other Japanese menu in this place is SUPERB.

This place is called Kyoto Japanese Restaurant in Salt Lake City Utah.

Yes, as you seen in the picture, they have the best tempura in town. I have been trying to get like that and of course, keep failing horribly. :(
And also their Agedashi Tofu, a fried tofu served in the soy based sauce as an appetizer, is phenomenal. I tried that dish first time in Kyoto and since then no other Japanese restaurant in town can top these dishes yet. ;-)


Here's the link to this place
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=kyoto+salt+lake+city&fb=1&gl=us&hq=kyoto&hnear=Salt+Lake+City,+UT&cid=852129689395890373

The punch line is that KYOTO is kind of expensive. So if you are not ready to spend at least 20$ on your meal, don't step a foot there. >.<

For me, it is time for overtime at my work. :(
There's another way for girls though. Get a freaking date!!! :P

With love,
PP

Daikon Salad (Mon Lar Oou Thoat)

                       
                         I have to admit that in cooking Burmese food, my specialty is soup and salad. Why? Because I like soup and salad. Don't picture the western soup or salad style. It's way different.
In Burma, salads are usually the side dishes to eat it with rice, not the appetizers. :-)

About this food
                          This is one of my favorite side dish to eat it with. Particularly I like to eat it with stir fry or curry main dish. It took me a while to figure until I got to the perfect point.

Ingredients

- 2 pieces of Daikon (Mon Lar Oou Phyu) - you can find this in vegetable section of Grocery store
- 1 onion or 2 shallots - I prefer shallots to cook Burmese dish with since those shallots are very close in taste to those in Burma
- 5 pieces of Garlic
- 5 tbsp of Tamarind Juice - You can find that in Asian Market. I will upload photos later :)
- 2 tbsp of roasted peanuts
- 8 tbsp of vegetable oil
- 3 piece of Thai Chili (Nga Yote Thee Sein)
- 3 tbsp of Fish Sauce (Ngan Pyar Yay)
- 3 tbsp of powdered dried shrimp. - you can buy packets of dry shrimp at asian market and then grind it in the blender for further use.
- 2 tbsp of Roasted Chili Pepper - Again you can buy this ingredient at asian market.


How to cook

1. Scrape the daikons. Put 2 tbsp of salt and leave it for 15-20 minutes. After that, take out all the liquids out of the scraped daikons until it is quite dry and you can see the strings separately..
2. Cut the onions into little pieces vertically so that it should look like strings at the end. Cut the thai chili peppers into thin round pieces.
3. In a hot pan, put the oil until it is hot. Turn off the stove. Put the diced garlic in. You can put some Tumeric powder for color.
4. In a bowl, put everything in and start mixing. You can adjust the taste on your own.

It's easy. The only catching part is dicing stuff. hmm.... I like to eat this with a hot hot rice...

Sha loot,


With love,
PP

A New Beginning

For those all of you who know me personally, you know that I try to cook.
Some said I am a good cook... lol IDK they might be just saying it... >.<
So, yes, I cook and I succeed and I fail.

As a foreign student in USA, it's really hard to find the ingredients or adapt to what the states can offer.
Somehow I manage to survive that. Meanwhile, I am trying to cook other styles other than Burmese too.
We will see what happen :D

I just want to share what I tried and hope to give the readers some idea or even my blog has no readers, it will just be my food diary...