GAMD: 23-27 May 2022 Meals

(X-posted on DW glimpseatmyday)

The challenge: Show a different meal each day during the week 23-27 May 2022. No 2 consecutive same meals (e.g. breakfast and breakfast)

Monday 23-May-2022, Breakfast
Lately, the family has been loving this Nissin breakfast granola cereal thing. Nissin is known for their instant noodles, and breakfast cereals are pretty new, at least to us. We've tried a few of the flavours, and my personal favorite is this one: Matcha. Next on my favorite is the Caramel Nuts. The Strawberry one is okay, but I vehemently dislike the other 2 flavors (which I haven't even cared to remember what the flavor name is), because they've got RAISINS in it. I.hate.raisins.

Tuesday 24-May-2022, Snacks
Alright, if you check the photo exif data it shows the photo was taken on 23-May, but that's because I took the photo on this day. We've been happily munching on this all week.
As a kid, my Mom would buy this weird red-colored something-strips for snacks. It's pretty delicious, a tiny bit sweet, and tiny bit of spicy for a kick. I never knew what that was, but that Mom would buy that from an... either a Chinese apothecary or a Chinese dry goods store. But that store closed down, and I haven't had that since. It just so happened that a specialty store imported this from Hong Kong and I saw their post on facebook, so I had them reserve it for me. NOW, I know it's actually some kind of dried and seasoned fish strips.

Wednesday 25-May-2022, Lunch
I had a meeting in the afternoon at an off-office location, and I wanted to check out their F&B, I anticipated I would be snacking around there, so for lunch, I decided to have a light lunch of a Spicy Lentils Soup and some toast.

Thursday 26-May-2022, Dinner
This is a bit of a cheat, because... it's a very many photos LOL. Well, I went for a private dining kitchen thing, おまかせ Omakase. I know the chef guy from before already, but one of my friends really wanted to try it out, and he moved to a new location, so we went to try. He outdid himself again. Since it's a special menu, I'm posting the menu as well (it's a mix of Japanese and Chinese, translation for reference):

日替前菜 蛸🐙mariné 縁側魚炙🐟 三文魚牛油果🥑沙津盛      鮪漬け 熊本和牛叩き 東京巨蛋豬煲 咖哩豬扒🐷 流水素麺🌊 KIKA雪糕🍦

Appetiser Marinated Octopus Seared... Flounder maybe Salmon Avocado Salad Pickled Tuna Kumamoto Beef Egg with veggies and mushroom hot pot Curry Pork Cutlet Nagashi Somen (Soba noodles served in flowing stream) Kika (brand) ice cream (no photo; Okinawa Sea Salt flavor)

Oh, and I forgot the MOST IMPORTANT thing... he has a dog. I forgot to ask for the dog's name. But as you can see, I made a new friend LOL!

Friday 27-May-2022, Supper Dessert
Actually, I had another amazing Japanese dinner on this day, but I couldn't show two same meals consecutively... LOL so here my post-dinner dessert. The dessert at that Japanese place wasn't particularly enticing (just the usual ice cream in frozen fruit, which you can buy in the local supermarkets anyway), so we decided to go to a specialty sweet-soup shop. What I have here is a Black Sesame and Walnut Paste/Soup. 芝麻合桃糊. Not the best I've had. The best I've had was in China, just at the border before coming to Macau. I wonder if that shop is still open. I've heard it's since shut down due to lack of business... but I don't know. I don't think I'd go through all the hassle of getting a Visa for China, and then having to go through all those travel requirements (PCR/NAT test, certificate of vaccination, and all that) just for a sojourn of 2 hours in China for dessert.

Japanese Dinner

So my friend R was all anxious and all that and asked us out for dinner at this new(ish) Japanese place. I didn't hold much hope for this place, because as you can see, the deco is amazing, and usually, by experience, when a restaurant establishment goes all out on the deco, the food usually is mediocre. Turns out I was generally right, because, while the food wasn't bad, I don't think it was all that great. I'm not big on sashimi, I mean, if you serve me sashimi, I'd eat it, but I'm not a "I MUST EAT SASHIMI" type... so... yeah.

So the thing that R was excited about is this, live-made Maki. I'll concede that it was good, but I don't think it was that amazing. It was also rather difficult to eat, because the food would slide out from the back. I noticed there were 2 pieces of Nori sheets, so I pulled the bottom piece out a bit, and used the portruded bit to fold over the back, then I was able to eat it without having the food fall out.

And then some random food shots. The flounder sushi was ok but wasn't anything to tell home about. The tofu salad was nice.

Grilled chicken soft bones (cartilage?) and ox tongue were okay.

Dashimaki Tamago, as always, is my favorite. I wouldn't say if it was very good or not, because I just love this dish so much... you can make the world's worst dashimaki tamago that I'd still gobble it all up. This one was a cheesy tamago

Veggie Tempura and a... crab shell thing.... I didn't know what to make of the crab shell thing. My friends loved it though.

A small sashimi platter, and their complimentary dessert, some kind of purin.

The final bill was a whopping $800 (say USD$100) per person... per person! While the food was good, I really, really don't think it was worth that amount of money. But it was a nice experience, with the live maki station. And at least, now I can say that I've been to this place (and will never go there again).