Gyoza and Pasta

Remember the Japanese groceries we've bought? There was a cup of chocolate pudding (the katakana label read, "Enjeru Purin" or "Angel Pudding") and the pack of uncooked gyoza. Well the pudding was well taken care of, the perfect snack while watching a movie about an underdog dancer and his ballerina leading lady. So what happened to the gyoza?

We cooked it! Or rather, we attempted to. From what I can remember, you'd line the gyoza on a pan with a 1/3 cup of water and make sure they don't touch each other, because they're quite sticky. Then once the water either evaporates or get sucked by the dumplings, you put in a bit of oil to fry it a bit then "Voila~!". But as you can see we failed quite miserably, that platter of twisted carnage was supposedly 8 pieces of authentic meat dumplings.

My friend said and I quote, "These aren't dumplings, they're just dump". I guess the -lings got stuck to the pan, these looked more gyoza-ish than what we've managed to scoop unto our plate... I can attribute our failure to the fact that none of us could read the cooking instructions. Kanji anyone?

But not to fret! Because we found a pack of instant carbonara at home~ Add a bit of water, a cup of milk, maybe some salt, let it boil, then keep on stirring until the sauce thickens and the pasta gets cooked. It was actually easy now that the package was in English, it looked very good! Very creamy, hot, and the cheesy color just melts my heart (there were times when I thought I was cooking mac n' cheese).

Then came the main event, time to taste the fruit of our sweat and labor! You know, the dumplings weren't bad, they tasted quite delicious actually~ Or was it because of the soy sauce...? The pasta on the other hand, well it did taste like the fruit of our sweat and labor. More of the 'sweat' than the labor; It was sweet n' sour. I'm not sure if carbonara was supposed to look nor taste that way, but we managed to pull through.

If that's not enough, we got our hands on some over-cooked, hollow french fries. Quite crunchy and light, very oily. Yet we ate it all anyway. Don't think that it's over~ We had a cup of cheesy corn kernels to go along with it! Mmmm, Japanese sweet corn kernels with cheese powder and margarine...

And for dessert? Some chocolate pillows! Yes that's right: crunchy, addictive, chocolate crackers with a chocolate filling inside! I wouldn't have my pillows any other way anyday.

Now it's time to exercise again. *sigh* Gluttony really is a sin.