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Back in January 2008, I made some Hainanese Chicken from scratch, and it came out delicious. The chicken is uniquely cooked by boiling chicken broth, turning off the heat, and dunking the chicken in the hot broth for 8 minutes, repeat 2 more times.
I wasn’t sure what kind of dark sauce they use, so I used the Indonesian kecap manis, which is a sweet, thick sauce.
The rice was cooked with chicken broth instead of water, and mixed with half a stick of butter. Surprisingly, half a stick was the minimum to get the rice to taste how it should.

Hainan Chicken

This is from back in August of 2007, but Tony, Mike, Luis, Mary, and I decided to try a Japanese okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) restaurant, and the closest one to Los Angeles was in Torrance, called Gaja. After a long drive, we spent about 2 hours eating here. Everyone but me got the okonomiyaki. I got the monjayaki, which is kind of like a watery version of the okonomiyaki. Their menu was enormous. I think there were around 20 pages. The food was was pretty good and it was fun to cook your own okonomiyaki at the table.