The best Malaysian restaurant I can find around Irvine

Belacan Grill in Tustin the best Malaysian restaurant I can find around Irvine.
Sometime, groupon has discount for this restaurant, such as buy $40 for only $25.

Taiwanese song

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我就這樣告別山下的家
我實在不願輕易讓眼淚流下
我以為我並不差　不會害怕

我就這樣自己照顧自己長大
我不想因為現實把頭低下
我以為我並不差　能學會虛假

怎樣才能夠看穿面具裡的謊話
別讓我的真心散的像沙
如果有一天我變得更複雜
還能不能唱出歌聲裡的puyuma

我就這樣告別山下的家
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我實在不願輕易讓眼淚流下
我以為我並不差　不會害怕

我就這樣自己照顧自己長大
我不想因為現實把頭低下
我以為我並不差　能學會虛假

怎樣才能夠看穿面具裡的謊話
別讓我的真心散的像沙
如果有一天我變得更複雜
還能不能唱出歌聲裡的那幅畫

Wo jiu zhe yang gao bie shan xia de jia
wo shi zai bu yuan qing yi rang yan lei liu xia

Wo yi wei wo bing bu cha bu hui hai pa

Wo jiu zhe yang zi ji zhao gu zi ji chang da
wo bu xiang yin wei xian shi ba tou di xia

Wo yi wei wo bing bu cha neng xue hui xu jia

Zen yang cai neng gou kan chuan mian ju li de huang hua

Bie rang wo de zhen xin san de xiang sha

Ru guo you yi tian wo bian de geng fu za

Hai neng bu neng chang chu ge sheng li di puyuma

Wo jiu zhe yang gao bie shan xia de jia
wo shi zai bu xiang qing yi rang yan lei liu xia

Wo yi wei wo bing bu cha bu hui hai pa

Wo jiu zhe yang zi ji zhao gu zi ji chang da
wo bu xiang yin wei xian shi ba tou di xia

Wo yi wei wo bing bu cha neng xue hui xu jia

Zen yang cai neng gou kan chuan mian ju li de huang hua

Bie rang wo de zhen xin san de xiang sha

Ru guo you yi tian wo bian de geng fu za

Hai neng bu neng chang chu ge sheng li di nei fu hua

Zen yang cai neng gou kan chuan mian ju li de huang hua

Bie rang wo de zhen xin san de xiang sha

Ru guo you yi tian wo bian de geng fu za

Hai neng bu neng chang chu ge sheng li di puyuma

Roast lamb rack

At Trader Joe's, it's easy to find frenched lamb rack. For two people, buy a small pack, around $13 is enough.

1. Ingredients.
- Lamb rack: use a small knife, separate racks it into piece
- Butter: 1/2 spoon or use olive oil
- Seasoning: 1 tea spoon salt (better to use sea salt),black pepper (few) and 1 tea spoon of  Thyme, rosemary, oregano, basil. You can find dried one in Trader Joe's, too.
- Lemon: 1 small piece

2. Method:
- Ground all season (if you can)
Here it how I do with a Japanese grinder bowl

- Mix seasoning with butter then rub the mixture to lamb rack, marinate for 30-60 minutes.
- Roast at 400 degree for 15 mins, then turn the meat, and roast at 300 degree for 5 mins.

You can add some drop of lemon juice

Eel tempura at Otafuku

Otafuku Noodle House

16525 S Western Ave
Gardena, CA 90247

This restaurant is a greatest place we know for eel dish: fry $10 or eat with rice or noodles $14.

Go there for dinner, you can order more than that:

Grilled squid: fresh and juicy $9 only

 Halibut sashimi

Yakitori

Grilled eggplants

Chicken liver

 Meat ball

Oden

How to Bake ground pork with lemon grass skewers

Lemon grass is very good for health because it contains beta carotene, a kind of antioxidant, that's why it is used a lot in Vietnamese food, Thais food, especially  in summer.

You can find it in whole food, asian market like Mitsuwa, or 99 ranch, Hmart. I often buy it at farmer market every Saturday morning (next to UCI): only $1.5 for a big bunch.

With lemon grass, you can cook a lots of dish, here is a very simple baking dish with my beloved Breville Compact Smart Oven . All you need are:

1.Ingredients:

- Ground pork (or chicken): 1/2 pound

- Lemon grass: 3 to 4 

- Onion: 1/2

- Garlic: 2 gloves (None is ok)

- Green onion: 3

- Seasoning: black pepper, fish sauce: 1,5 spoon. If you don't have fish sauce, use some salt (depend on how salty you want, normally: 1/2 tea spoon)

- Sauce: lemon juice  (or rice or white vinegar): 1/2 spoon, sugar: 1 spoon, garlic: 1 glove, fish sauce: 1,5 spoons, water: 1/2 cup

If you don't have fish sauce in your kitchen, you can use salt: 1 tea spoon to replace it, or you can make any sauce you want: like tomato sauce

- Optional (but better to have): cilantro, mint, lecture for wrap

2. Method

- Use a big bow or even a small pot, add meat in

- Mix the meat with chopped garlic, onion, green onion and all seasonings. Leave it there for 15-30 minutes.

- Wash lemon grass, throw the outmost layer, cut into two pieces (6 inches long), then you will have 10 skewers. You can cut them thinner if you don't have enough lemon grass

- Preheat the oven to 400 degree F

- Use a little bit oil to make to baking rack not stick to meat

- Form the meat around lemon grass skewer, try to make it flat (but not two flat, otherwise the meat will be too dry)

- Bake in 15 mins, then turn over the meat, bake for another 5 mins.

Make fish sauce  If you dont have time to make Vietnamese fish sauce, use this way.

It with vege wrap, or rice, or use it as an appetizer 

Italian restaurant in New Port Beach

If you are looking for an Italian restaurant near Irvine, Canaletto Ristorante Veneto in Newport Beach (Fashion Island) is the best one. Choose a table in patio will be nice for Sunday morning, if you feel cold, they will turn on the heater.

Start with bread and olive oil + vinegar

 Soup of the day

Great pizza: Stagione

 Ling Buranella (kind of Italian noodle with very fresh and delicious seafood)

Grig Porto: grill seafood: squid, scallop, shrimp with vegetables and nuts. If you don't have seafood for a long tme (kidding), here are the dishes you should order. For two people, the noodle and salad dish are enough. Oh, don't forget to order beer: peroni draft.

They don't have sweet menu, because they introduce it to you in this way

And here is mine

with cappuccino

If you are too full, take a walk to the shopping mall next to the restaurant!!!

Nanasan sushi next to UCI