Cooking time - crab noodle

    Beside all the blogs about my daily life, outfits,etc... I had planned to do this post for such a long time but keep postponing this till now. If you follow my blog when it was new, you will realize i'm a food lover. However, when i was still in my country, i didn't cook a lot, i believe this happens to most overseas students Lol.I'm in kitchen more than last year since i was pretty new to Seattle when i first arrived here and literally wanted to try every food in Seattle. Btw, at the time i lived with my brother and we are really different in taste, i love salted food while he doesn't. I'm also lazy in washing dishes,so he is. That's why we went out a lot last year Hahahaha. Then i lived with a roommate, who loves cooking so much so that she cooked every single days. The only mission i got was eating and enjoying! Yes, i'm such a lazy cat ( i blame my laziness on  brother and the roommate). However, i'm pretty confident with my cooking skill, especially the foods like Pho, bun bo, bun rieu... You know why: because they can be storage for couple days and i don't need to re-cook ( lazy episode 2). Since i wanna save money this year, i gotta be in kitchen more. Okay, enough taking, the first dish i want to talk about is Bun rieu -  crab and pork noodle soup. My used to be morning breakfast on tuesday and thursday every week in Viet Nam. Although my version bun rieu doesn't look like bun rieu in Viet Nam, it still tastes ok though =_=.
   Since i'm not a professional chef  and have no idea how to measure ingredients, i suggest you guys should check out these two recipes. The first one has both vietnamese and english recipe, it's pretty easy and simple to follow. However, it would be more delicious if you combine the recipe from first video with the second one, which is more sophicated a little bit but i forsure it will make your dish more wonderful.

And now time for my showcase. These tips below i got from my experiences and friends.Whether You follow or not, but believe me it's gonna make your noodle tasty

1. Beside all the ingredients in recipes, i add minced shrimp into mixed of pork, eggs,shrimp/crab paste and keep shrimp heads for broth, which really increases flavor.

2. i also add crab cake ( don't really know how to call it, you can see it in photo 2,3). I got this tip from one of famous crab noodles in my city

2. People usually use either shrimp or crab paste. However, coincidentally i discovered that if you use both of the paste, it will be more delicious.

4. Stir shrimp heads with onion and tomatoes to get tasty broth.

5. Add vinegar while boiling noodle to keep white. Drain noodle and wash with cold water right away ( i guess it's on package instruction, read it carefully :) )

Finally, Enjoy your dish~

    These past days were really sunny. Although i was stuck with midterm, projects, assignments..., i tried my best to sneak outside and enjoying the sunshine. If i didn't do that, i would scratch myself till death Lol. I cut my hair last week as i mentioned in the previous blog. Honestly, i felt kinda nervous and almost decided not to cut anymore. I kept talking with the hair stylist and seemed how i was truly  annoying to her. It's not that bad though, the hair looked beautiful in the first day but terrible in the next day hahahahahaha.
   Anyway, Some photos of my daily life.  As i say above, i tried to sneak out last friday, calling my friend, asking them to pretend amateur tourists again, who first came to Seattle hahaha. Love our tradition!

Me-with new hair.

I'm not really into ice cream but my friend kept forcing me to try this ice cream shop. And hell yeah, it was quite delicious!

Salte caramel ice cream

                                                             

I bet you know this place when it comes to Seattle

Super cute!

My favorite bakery, they have good lemon coconut bar.

Love the outfit of this woman!

Selfie photo in the most beautiful fitting room i've ever seen.

Late afternoon coffee with a friend.

Big decision

    This friday, i'm gonna cut my long hair. Yup, after being with long hair literally for my whole life. I love my hair so much.I'm so proud of my hair, there is no word that can describe how i treasure it, like i never let someone touch my hair except a really good hair stylist or myself. When it comes to hair, i'm kinda coward. Changing seems a big deal to me. Last year, i made a big chance, from no bang to bang. This year, i'm gonna make it again, long hair to short hair. I have been thinking about this for such a long time, asked people whether i should cut or not. Most of the time, they told me not to do that, they loved it , so natural wavy... but one of my closet friends said: "  girl, you live young once and hair can grow up any time, just do it". I came home that day, thinking about it, and deciding to cut it. It's not about we live young once, there are so much things happening right now and changing might help me come back to my balance mood. If not, well! i have new hair :)
 Some memories with my long hair ( love you like forever, my hair, see you someday again in future >3)

Seattle diaries 13

Hey, how are you guys doing? These last two weeks were really stressful. School things are crazy like hell, plus i was pretty sick last week. That's why i didn't have much time for blogging.I'm trying my best to update it every one or two weeks, i almost gave up this post though Haha. Okay, so many good news came to me today: Some new pieces of favorite brand clothing are on the way to me ( you know, it's been a long time i haven't bought clothes so Wohoooo!!!), my brother is gonna visit me next month plus he has sent his gift to me:  Nike shoes ( Wohooo, my first Nike), since i need a good running shoes for my diet ( in case you ask: i'm skinny now, but i need to diet for summer since i tend to gain a lot of weights during spring-summer Hahahaha). 

These photos above were taken in a beautiful sunny day with my girl: Le. We had a really good time: coffee, park, people, blossoms, chilling, taking photos. Oh god, What could be better!

Too beautiful

I bought the top from a shop called Nosbyn, check it out when you need some things minimalistic and simple, love it !

I'm in love with this neighborhood.

People :)

I wondered what i was looking at in this photo. 

"..."

and mah girl :)

Need to get out of school

   I kinda hate school so much recently. It has been a year and i almost think that i already adapt well to the new culture. Well, it doesn't. Tonight, i had a class, which has  good view to see Seattle at night but instead of focusing on my instructor's lecture, i looked outside and wondered myself: " what am i doing here?" I mean the answers obviously are getting my degree, having a job and living on my own. It's just i don't really understand myself. Friends here are not the same like friends in Viet Nam, i forsure can't force them being what i want but honestly,  i can't stand this anymore. I know i have to be stronger but  only this moment, i wish i could fly to travel around the world, learn real lessons about life, get out of this stressful time or just a deep sleep and dream of floating on galaxy, living in the world of Kagaya's pictures.

          Crap things - Seattle 04/08/2013

Hello blog, nice to see you again

    I miss my blog so much, wish i could have more time for this blog but school  has been driving me crazy. I take 4 classes this quarter and one additional class, which means i'm gonna die very soon.  I still  remember how i dresses up nicely almost everyday in the winter quarter compared to now, i went to classes literally with something that looked like pyjamas, plus messy hair and no eye makeup. Probably, lip balm is the only thing i can take in hurry and run as fast as i can *sight*. Anyway, as usual, i have some photos from my day with a friend. I freaking love this time of the year, blossoms everywhere, nice weather, people look more happier and finally, i can eat frozen yogurt properly :D :D :D.

Say peace!!!

From my love to you!

Perfect match.

Behind my school

So beautiful ! Wish they woudn't fade and could last forever.

Hehehe

My girl