Cooking

Making breakfast for my girlfriend has become my task every weekend. Over the quarter, I usually cook soba noodles or udon noodles with bonito soup. This is the best substitution for instant noodles. But it’s Christmas. it should be something different to surprise my girlfriend. This was my first attempt to make Egg Benedict. Egg Benedict is an American dish. Traditionally it was an English muffin topped with bacon, a pouched egg and hollandaise sauce. As I didn’t buy English muffins and bacon, I replaced them with bagels and smoked salmon. ...

The lockdown is coming to the final stage. Together with the economic downturn, many restaurants are gone. Many new restaurants are found. The city is now partially resumed. Even if you are willing to eat out, you will often find the meals become much more pricey. The meals are shrunk. In economics, it’s called shrinkflation. A few months ago, I went to a cafe for coffee beans. When I was queuing for checkout, I glanced at the meal order of a customer in front of me. 3 dishes of pasta with 3 drinks cost over $750. It didn’t make sense to me, given that some restaurants serve pasta with canned pasta sauce or, worse still, microwaved pasta. Why don’t I cook the same dish at home with a cost of perhaps 10 times less? ...