oops, apparently I misplaced my つゆ (soba dipping sauce) recipe, google cache ftw

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Recipe – Tsuyu (In Japanese it was call the “can do everything” tsuyu)

50ml Mirin (Cooking mirin is fine aka 0.9 % alcohol, if you get better mirin, you can skip the cooking wine)

50ml Rice Cooking Wine (the japanese kind, usually 13-14% alcohol with 2.1% of salt) <– to evade taxes… add salt if you are using regular rice wine

50ml regular light soya sauce (shuyu)

1 teaspoon of sugar (add more depending on how sweet you like it)

200ml of dashi (I used concentrated powder + water) <– lazy

1) First bring the mirin and wine to an almost boil, if you are using something stronger, let it actually boil to evaporate some  alcohol.

2) Then pour the rest of the crap in, stir until sugar melts

It should taste like any regular garden variety soba dipping sauce. Will keep in the fridge for a very long time b/c of the alcohol.

You can also add a little water, 1-2 teaspoon more sugar, and 2-3 teaspoon of soya sauce to make it the tempura dipping sauce. (it should taste slightly weaker than the dipping sauce)

To turn that into a hot soupy base for udon and etc, add about 1/2 – 1 times as much water as sauce to it.

HAHAHA, I am reading an article about how target figures out you are pregnant etc... Thought what was actually more interesting in the article is  the talk about habits, and how habits take over etc. Apparently there is a loop - cue, routine, reward; Such that my brain stops participating in certain decision making. 

For someone who dislike habits very much, I sat there and took a step back and think, is that really true. I guess the habit of doing things different is itself a habit, I don't necessarily think about it. What I do differently is almost always consistent too, strangely enough.

Maybe it makes sense as to why I can't sleep every day at the same time, or feel stable in various situations. 

But I am determined to fight you, with that, I should really go back to bed and wake up earlier tomorrow. Time to actively construct some useful routines if that computer-thingy-mabob is going to do it itself anyways.

 Updated: 2/19/2012

So, for all those people dying for hotpot. Here’s all the places in Waterloo/Kitchener. They are all between $15 – $20.

There’s Leung Yue Hotpot at 1508 King Street East (On King a little past Ottawa going south). The place looks like a castle. They are opened 5pm to like 3am. Lots of choices of meat/veggies/seafood. Only soya sauce and satay. Mango slushie is awesome. Owner is really nice.

There’s this unamed place at King and University  (Beside BMO). They are open like 11am – 10pm. Beef, veggies, lots of choices of random stuff, like bean curds, etc. Lots of sauce choices. They now has a large variety of soup base =), and seafood too.

There’s Waterloo Star at the plaza at University and Philip (Beside Kick offs). They are open like 11am-10pm. Beef, recently pork and chicken(kinda weirdly sliced), tripe, veggies, spam, mushrooms, and noodles. The owner speaks very little english. Lots of sauces. Some choice of soup base at extra cost.

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There is another place call vegetarian something beside chill & grill in the plaza, I wouldn't recommend going there, but their congee is awesome =).

 This was an old post, but I always forget this, so I am moving this one over.

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Another sleepless night...

So moving the website had a few surprises here and there, mostly good, and some bad.

• Changing my wordpress theme to a shopify theme literally took 2 seconds, replaced all the php tags to liquid tags, the reference was in a handy place. Mostly didn't need to look that up either.
  
• Copying and pasting google caches of stuff into the editor resulted in exceptional preservation of html
• following the instructions per the transfer domain from godaddy page was mostly confounding, thought I realize that the correct basic instructions were actually there all along, I just wasn't looking in the right place.
• The editor is mostly smarter than the wordpress one when it comes to generating html tags, I didn't have to go and get mad at it
• I finally got rid of my ghetto paypal buttons =) 

• I moved my tld, which takes forever to propagate, which is normal, but somehow shopify led me to believe it would work magically, and it didn't
• It might of bugged me a little that posts are articles...
  
• It was exceptionally hard to make my home page a regular shopify page, I had to edit the theme, which I guess I had to do anyways, but it was annoying while it lasted that I had a welcome in my title tag (and was told that can't be changed), and a new blog was automatically called news