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Philippines8437 Posts
I woke up at around 7am, to my mother turning the on the aircon again so we can sleep again since she turns it off at around 5am - which she usually doesn't do, she only does that to the aircon of my sisters room (since for some reason they sleep longer than we do).
Then the phone was ringing over and over again so I got up to get it. It was the printing company, it turns out they can't reach my moms cellphone. Being the responsible first born child that I am, I just texted my mom that the printing called up etc etc. My mom had to attend some business.
The aircon was still on and the room was still cold, but my head hurts as well as my eyes so even if I was still a bit sleepy, I couldn't extend my sleep.
It was around 8:30 so I checked downstairs for breakfast, my mom usually has breakfast prepared for us. There was flavored fried rice, no viand (I needed google translate to translate ulam to english). Maybe if you're from another part of Asia, rice alone would suffice, but from this side of Asia we need viands. Anyway, I texted my mom again if I could but eggs so I can cook them for breakfast as my siblings were almost awake. She approved nonetheless so I asked my siblings how many eggs they wanted for breakfast, I ended up buying 9 eggs for the 5 of us.
I preheated the pan (with oil) before buying eggs from a store nearby. Nope this is not the usual grocery, here we have a window store where you can find various necessities. There you can buy items by the piece, like a piece of egg.
By the time I got back, the pan was pretty hot, but to make sure, I tossed a pinch of salt in and if the salt simmers (for the lack of the better term), the oil is hot. It wasn't. But of course egg does not need high temperatures to cook so I can go ahead and cook. So I lowered the temperature a bit, cracked the first egg, pushed in both my thumb in and then splat, the egg fell to it's horrible and miserable death. And did I mention that the oil was not hot but hot enough to cook the egg in seconds and burn it? That happened. I figured I needed a pinch of salt to put flavor into the egg but that only made the egg over cook, the bottom side making the egg look like a thin crust pizza.
The second egg went down easier, it was more orderly, the yolk was pretty much in one place but it wasn't good yet. I figured that the oil was too much and the egg was actually swimming on a hot pool of oil.
The third one was the charm, I think the trick was the crack it and let everything out continuously but slowly.
When they say thirds the charm, third is really the charm but anything after that is not guaranteed to have the same results. The rest went on like the others, they fell in pieces, fast. There was one point where the oil looked weird, you know how carbonated drinks foam up when you pour them to a glass? Well that's how it looked like but I figured it wasn't that bad so I just continued.
My mom got home by the time I was cooking the eighth egg, she told me she wasn't supposed to take long but things happen.
Cooking eggs look simple but I figured it really takes practice to get them cooked properly. Damn, the chefs in our school cafeteria make it look easy.
The eggs turned out good even if they didn't look that delicious. Oh yeah, since the salt I had wasn't rock salt, I had a hard time determining if the egg had enough salt to give it flavor. My siblings got soy sauce to make up for loss in flavor.
now back to my Fox Hound Emblem run.
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United States22883 Posts
My mom makes a breakfast dish with leftover rice and egg, literally called rice & egg in Japanese (I think another name for it is tamago bukkake gohan >.>) Start to reheat day old rice with some water, so it's like a porridge and once the rice is hot enough, just drop a couple eggs in, stir and let the eggs cook in the rice. Add dashi (Japanese fish broth) and soy sauce for flavor.
It's nice when you make it, but if you make too much, it kind of sucks as leftovers.
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On May 26 2010 12:19 Jibba wrote:
My mom makes a breakfast dish with leftover rice and egg, literally called rice & egg in Japanese (I think another name for it is tamago bukkake gohan >.>) Start to reheat day old rice with some water, so it's like a porridge and once the rice is hot enough, just drop a couple eggs in, stir and let the eggs cook in the rice. Add dashi (Japanese fish broth) and soy sauce for flavor.
It's nice when you make it, but if you make too much, it kind of sucks as leftovers.
I had the "eww" face on for like 5 seconds ...
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lol the "bukkake" also stood out for me.
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Philippines8437 Posts
bukkake..hmmm..
"What are you eating man?"
"Tamago Bukkake Go--"
"You're eating bukkake?"
That would be lugaw for us...which translates to congee..
those dishes are good for cold weather (which we're supposed to have in a few weeks).
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gohan stood out for me (dbz)
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haha most people know bukkake as the porn, not the foodstyle.
anyway, i love cooking and eggs are pretty versatile so that's good.
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I LIKE BUKKAKE
I guess the dish name makes a bit of sense if you go into it with a dirty mind, as the eggs have probably had their way all over the rice.
Sorry OP, your post isn't going to live past the bukkake post. 
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On May 26 2010 12:19 Jibba wrote:
My mom makes a breakfast dish with leftover rice and egg, literally called rice & egg in Japanese (I think another name for it is tamago bukkake gohan >.>) Start to reheat day old rice with some water, so it's like a porridge and once the rice is hot enough, just drop a couple eggs in, stir and let the eggs cook in the rice. Add dashi (Japanese fish broth) and soy sauce for flavor.
It's nice when you make it, but if you make too much, it kind of sucks as leftovers.
The little winky face after bukkake made it 10 times worse lol.
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Wait did you leave the stove on while you left to buy the eggs? :S Pretty dangerous.
On May 26 2010 12:29 SilverSkyLark wrote:
That would be lugaw for us...which translates to congee..
those dishes are good for cold weather (which we're supposed to have in a few weeks).
Ooh my mom used to make this stuff for me when I was sick. Drop a hard boiled egg in there and you're all set.
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Philippines8437 Posts
On May 26 2010 13:45 FiBsTeR wrote:Wait did you leave the stove on while you left to buy the eggs? :S Pretty dangerous. Show nested quote +On May 26 2010 12:29 SilverSkyLark wrote:
That would be lugaw for us...which translates to congee..
those dishes are good for cold weather (which we're supposed to have in a few weeks). Ooh my mom used to make this stuff for me when I was sick. Drop a hard boiled egg in there and you're all set.
yeah, the store was like 30 seconds away, it's electric so there's not much trouble as compared to if it was gas...:D
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yeahhhh electric or not, you dont leave a stove on with no one watching it like that
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United States22883 Posts
On May 26 2010 12:35 Megalisk wrote:Show nested quote +On May 26 2010 12:19 Jibba wrote:
My mom makes a breakfast dish with leftover rice and egg, literally called rice & egg in Japanese (I think another name for it is tamago bukkake gohan >.>) Start to reheat day old rice with some water, so it's like a porridge and once the rice is hot enough, just drop a couple eggs in, stir and let the eggs cook in the rice. Add dashi (Japanese fish broth) and soy sauce for flavor.
It's nice when you make it, but if you make too much, it kind of sucks as leftovers. The little winky face after bukkake made it 10 times worse lol.
IT WAS A PARENTHESIS
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Philippines8437 Posts
good thing I didn't tell my mom that..I bet she could have killed me...
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Dont use oil, dont use grease, just use nothing but pan and egg. Just put very low heat on the pan and keep an eye on the egg. Once the yolk starts to coagulate its done. You can check this by puffing to it and watch how it responds to the impulse, the puff. The response is gonna give you an idea of how the viscosity of the yolk is. Once the viscosity has changed enough means the yolk has started to coagulate. So yeah its very easy if you dont go down the greasy way.
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You left the stove on to heat a pan and went out? Thats dangerous, heating a pan takes a couple of seconds. You dont want a pan that is scorching hot to make eggs, when the smoke is visible that means your pan will more likely burn it before it cooks. When you see some movement in the oil, the pan is hot enough.
I had this experience before when my brother with his terrible cooking skills left the stove on after he finished making scrambled eggs, he didnt completely shut the stove off.
So basically we were breathing toxic air for about 3 hours before someone noticed. He turned the valve the other way where gas that is used to trigger the flame is still leaking but there was no fire... Maybe that was why I had a headache.
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