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During a lunch outing in Brooklyn, we stopped in at Cibone, a Japanese “home goods” store. They sell pretty, expensive, but mostly impractical things like vases and uncomfortable-to-hold mugs.

I really liked this green, carved ceramic plate ($220), though. You can always use another plate…?

Matching flat dish on the bottom right.

We made a vegetarian version of da pan ji (chicken-potato dish) with homemade noodles! The noodle recipe is from an Asian noodle cookbook from the library, This is a book about noodles by Brendan Pang.

Big Plate Chicken (Chinese Da Pan Ji) with Noodles

Noodles

• 300 g flour
• Pinch of salt
• 155 mL (1/2 cup + 7 tsp) water

1. Combine flour and salt. Add water in and knead 10-15 min with a stand mixer + dough hook (Knead longer, maybe ~20 min, by hand.)
2. Lightly coat the counter with oil. Press the dough into a rectangle about 1/2 in thick. Cut into 10 equal strips.
3. Hold each strip at both ends. Stretch and slap against the counter until ~8 in long.
4. Boil 2-3 min.

With the hotter summer weather, a lot of my pea plants died 🙁 The two that survived aren’t doing so well and are likely to die in the next week – we’re having a bit of a heat wave here.

I’ve been looking for veggies that like hot weather. Some old sweet potatoes sprouted a bunch, so we planted those. And my mom sent some seeds to try out! We’ve got basil, shiso, and melon (from sibling C’s garden). I’m excited to see how they do!

Overall I’d say it was solidly solid. I think I like the ramen and the customization options at Ramen Nagi a bit better, but HiroNori compares quite favorably (with no waiting in line). And the chicken karaage was really good, which Ramen Nagi doesn’t offer. I’ll be back.

The Bay Area has this great public transit card called Clipper. It’s really easy to use! In this post I’ll show you just how easy it is to refill.