Curry Rice : The Lazy Way

ryusei-japanese-curryServings: ~6 Normal adults (I lasted 3 days)
Duration: ~45mins (Carrots take long time to boil)
Very Easy

Ingredients:

  • 2 slices of boneless chicken breast (Refer to this to learn how to debone a chicken breast)
  • S&B Golden Curry Roux (Any brand is fine, i used this one)
  • Pepper
  • Salt
  • Potatoes (I used 3 fairly large pieces)
  • Carrots (2 pieces)

Chop chop:

  1. Heat about 1.7L of water
  2. Cut carrots and potatoes to cubes (size depends on you, the larger they are the longer they take to boil.)
  3. Boil carrots first, these suckers takes a lot of time. Then boil potatoes.
  4. Debone chicken breast, cut to cubes (like your potato)
  5. Roll the meat cubes with a pinch of peppers and salts
  6. Stir fry the meat cubes (people usually stir fry slices of onions with the meat)
  7. Test if the carrots and potatoes are soft enough
  8. Cut the curry roux to little pieces first, then put put them inside the pot. They usually packages them like this. easycurrybyme252822529This recipe takes the whole roux in that little yellow 2×2 box (If you want them to be less thick, feel free to reduce the roux)
  9. Stir stir and stir some more.
  10. After the roux mixed, put the meat cubes inside the pot
  11. Stir stir stir until it began to thicken
  12. After the whole roux has melted, turn off the stove, let the pot sit
  13. After 10 minutes it should achieve the thickness of the curry we usually see in anime
  14. Dig in, don’t forget to wash your plates after!

Shelter : 6 mins feelbomb electronica with anime

From Youtube :

Shelter tells the story of Rin, a 17-year-old girl who lives her life inside of a futuristic simulation completely by herself in infinite, beautiful loneliness. Each day, Rin awakens in virtual reality and uses a tablet which controls the simulation to create a new, different, beautiful world for herself. Until one day, everything changes, and Rin comes to learn the true origins behind her life inside a simulation.

 

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Anime : Gakkou Gurashi

A K-ON-esque happy school life story full of moe girls!

A K-ON-esque happy school life story full of moe girls!

 

  • Episodes : 12
  • Year : 2015
  • Studios: Lerche

This anime is based on a manga series by Nitro+.

For some people, that sentence is enough to sum up what they can expect from this journey. They’re the studio behind big visual novels like Saya no Uta, Steins; Gate, Togainu no Chi, and the recent hits : Touken Ranbu. Most of them are visual novels as it is the studios’ primary focus, but they also dabbles in anime and manga, which brings us to this -my biggest spoiler in this article- the biggest cheat since Mahou Shoujo Madoka.

But for me, Gakkou Gurashi is even more terrifying in a sense that it has a very realistic settings that could happen to our reality at any time. I shall not disclose the nuts-and-bolts for it might spoil the fun since plot twists like these is where Nitro+ excels at…magnificently.

Be prepared for some jaws-hanging and tears because Nitro+ certainly didn’t made this to be an easy ride.

P.S.

Some people were saying that the manga is better, and that the anime doesn’t follow with the manga enough. I’ll leave that to your own judgement since the anime has already wrecked me enough, thankyouverymuchsayonara.

Korean TV Series : Beautiful Mind (Medical Drama)

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  • Name : Beautiful Mind
  • Runtime : June, 20 2016 – Aug, 2 2016
  • Episodes : 14
  • Jang Hyuk, Park So Dam
  • Medical drama, slight romance

This series star 1 main character as the central force where everything revolves around : an exceptionally brilliant surgeon named Lee Young-oh.

But just being smart isn’t enough to be the star of the story; Dr. Young-oh is a different kind of doctor that we’re used to. He’s “afflicted” with a certain neurological disease that makes whatever he does, the other characters and of course us audiences will see them in different light; Be it him being a surgeon, when he (against his policy) operates on an unlikely-to-survive patients, and even his daily interactions with other characters in the show.

I finished watching the show just a few days ago. This is a merely a personal opinion in this show; spoiler-free of course.

Romance does play as an important plot mover in this show; but more than that, it focuses more on Dr. Young-oh as he navigated the complex world of the health industry, hospital politics, and society in general.

Reviewing something without explaining what makes it so interesting because it will spoils the fun is hard.

But in just the first episode, you’ll know what is it Dr. Young-oh is afflicted with, that makes his life so unusual they made 14 episodes based on it (They actually planned 16, but because of low viewer rating they decided to cut 2). Don’t take it wrong, the show is entertaining and thought provoking. I don’t know why it has low viewer rating (not quality, mind you.), maybe lack of advertisement in the home country?

The comedy and romance is not over-the-top and sickening, the story fleshes out well, the drama isn’t tiring. It does have some plot holes, medically speaking, but hey, what show doesn’t? A medical drama will always have medical related plot-holes, a police procedural will always have law enforcement related plot-holes (SWAT teams, anybody?).

Mr. Jang Hyuk plays Dr. Young-oh very well. I don’t know much about Korean actors to say whether he’s the perfect fit for the character, but it the show, he is Dr. Young Oh.

Mrs. Park So Dam also plays the heroine Mrs. Gye Jin Sung quite good, but since romance isn’t the main viewpoint, she gets relatively small screen time compared to the heroines in other Korean drama.

You can stream all episodes here.