Looking east…

If you are as old as I am, you probably would remember the once-upon-a-time Look East Policy.

I was somewhat baffled at the time as we were supposed to look towards Japan and emulate the ways of the Japanese so that our country would be just as progressive and advanced. The trouble was Japan was somewhere towards the north and if we were to look east, we would be looking in the wrong direction.

Anyway, I am not here to discuss politics or any of those stuff – it so happened that we had some culinary delights from the countries up north, Japan and Korea, for dinner that day because we tried the instant Kuching laksa for lunch and did not cook anything for dinner.

Since we were still feeling quite full, come dinnertime, my girl said she would make some Japanese sushi for something light and she came out with these…

I loved the ones with prawn and avocado…

….because I am not really into canned tuna…

…but my girl is o.k. with it so she liked them both.

My missus likes it hot so she added the fiery chili garlic sambal…

…that we got from my friend, Mandy, the other day and she had those spicy darker shade ones all to herself.

My girl also made a few of these…

…tteokkochi or grilled Korean rice cake skewers because she had some of the tteokbokki left over from that day.

She added some gourmet cocktail sausages to the skewers and bask them with bulgogi BBQ sauce and honey and grilled them well…

…on a grill pan. It turned out really well and we sure enjoyed it very much.

That sure was a welcome change from our usual rice plus dishes meal for dinner.