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Food Hiroshima trip, Japan 180324 to 180402

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We love Japanese food. Maybe it is quite similar to our daily diet? Rice, soup, sushi. All our favourite. In addition to meals, we also love snacks in Japan. I am not sure why, the cakes and bread sold in Japan is always good. I believe maybe because of the basic ingredients they owned. The flour? maybe.... maybe.  The following are food that we ate and love while we were in Hiroshima from 24 Mar to 2 Apr in 2018. Some gives us good memory and some don't. Try them out when you are in Japan. 1) Mister Donut - You see Mister Donut in most of its Shopping Mall. I started having this while I visited Fukuoka in Oct 2017. We both fall in love with it. The donut is soft and they refill your coffee when you finished. Good service and delicious donut 2) Matsunoya Tonkatsu  - Our favourite Japanese fast food ever since we visited Tokyo in April 2017. 1st it is cheap with restaurant standard kind of food. It taste better than those served in Singapore Japanese restaurant. The meat

Mee Jiang Kueh or Chinese Pancake

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Mee Jiang Kueh / Chinese Pancake MJK - my love for this grow fonder when I get older. When I was young, we have this as a treat on some weekend. When my late "ah ma" (mummy)  will pass us some pocket money, really, pocket money from her "zhao tee goo" illegal hawking selling home grown chilli, papaya or lime. My brothers and me will walk 1 and a 1/4 mile to this Punggol wet market. There was a stall opposite the wet market, at the junction where we walk to the movie theatre.  They have at least 5 small pancake pans lined in a row making pancakes on the spot. Coconut or peanut. The 2 original flavours. At that time, my pancake world in my "dictionary" is only this kind of pancake. Funny how, during that time, I am not a fan of Mee Jiang Kueh. I prefer those Noya layered kueh. Also, I hate coconut pancake. 50 years later, I started to love Mee Jiang Kueh and orange coconut fillings is my favourite. I got this recipe by coincidence. I happened to voluntee