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Shanghai Noodles

shanghai noodles

These days there are quite a few Chinese Restaurants specialize in Mainland and Taiwanese Cuisine. Our family really like the spicy Shanghai noodles stir-fried. It’s quite easy to cook and very inexpensive. The main ingredients are ground pork, bokchoy, shanghai noodles, black bean paste, black bean chili, chili oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, onions, mushrooms of any

Light Fireplace With Pine Cones

pine cones

It’s winter and it’s cold out, when mornings don’t have spare the air alert, we light our fireplace. We used to buy fire starter but they don’t work as well as dry pine cones that fell off the trees. The pine cones are amazing fire starter, they lighted up quickly with great fires.

Dividend Stocks

This year the market was in bear market and many stocks pay dividend with high forward yields because the stock prices are low. This is a good opportunity for me to invest in these beaten down stocks with high dividend. When the market is back to bull, we expect the stock prices will be higher

Taftek AML101 Non-Reversible Door Lock

outside lock

The kids bathroom door lock was broken so I had to find one quickly, Amazon has one “non-reversible” door lock which fits our door perfectly for $10.99 in Satin Nickel. It took me less than 15 minutes to replace the old one with this one. It came with everything needed to install. Very sturdy, nice

Sunjoe 10″ Pole Electric Chainsaw

finished assembly

We need to cut down a tree branch that blocks the signal of the Sail Internet Receiver. We bought a Sunjoe long pole chainsaw from Amazon for $80 to cut it down. The saw was amazingly sweet, cut the tree trunks like butter. We really liked it.