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How to use credit card to pay a Paypal invoice

1. Open the e-mail Paypal containing invoice.

2. Click on “Pay Invoice” link in the e-mail, to open the invoice

3. On the Paypal invoice page, click on “Pay” at the lower left corner . This will lead you to the login page on Paypal site.

4. If you don’t have paypal account, click on “Continue” at the lower left side, above various credit card symbols

5. The link will lead to the screen for using credit card payment

Cooking Shirataki Noodles at Home

Shirataki Noodle

Shirataki Noodle

Shirataki noodles are thin, low carb, chewy, and translucent Japanese noodles made from konjac yam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac).. Konjac has almost no calories but is very high in glucomannan fiber. Thus, it is often used as a diet food. Shirataki noodles, also called konjac or konnyaku noodle , are thinner than wheat noodles, do not break as easily, and have an almost crunchy texture. They do not have much flavor by themselves, but it absorbs flavors well from other ingredients.

Shirataki noodles are usually packaged “wet”, that is, you purchase them pre-packaged in liquid.

At PierMall.com, we carry the Shirataki noodles made in Japan. You may purchase it by single bag, or by case.

What you need to prepare shirataki noodles?

1. A small strainer.

2. Water to rinse. (You may notice a “fishy” smell when you open up the package. The smell is from the water in the package and not the noodles. The smell will disappear after you rinse the noodles several times in the fresh water).

3. A good family pasta recipe or healthy vegetables, seafood, chicken, spices – the list is endless!

4. Family and friends to enjoy your new found health discovery!

Ingredients:

Konjac glucomannan , water, food grade calcium hydroxide.

How to store

Keep refrigerated after opening. Konjac Foods can be stored in room temperature with the shelf life about one year.

Recipe Suggestion for shirataki noodles:

Stir-Fry Vegetable with Shirataki

Ingredients

1 tablespoon sesame oil 7 oz shirataki noodles (1 bag) 1 cup green bean sprouts

1/4 cup fine carrot strips

1/2 cup shiitake mushrooms (presoaked in water until soft and tender) 2 T Kikkoman soy sauce 1 Cup stir-fry vegetables (frozen)

Directions

Combine oil and soy sauce in wok and preheat over medium heat. rinse shirataki noodles in fresh water Add noodles and frozen vegetables to wok; stir fry until mixture is heated through but vegetables are still crispy. Add green bean sprouts and shiitake mushrooms; heat through. Makes 2 servings of about 2 1/2 cups. Simple, quick, delicious and deceptively low in calories! Number of Servings: 2

Shirataki Noodle Shrimp Stir-fry

Ingredients

1 8oz package of shirataki noodles 7 oz of raw shrimp (cleaned and shelled .5 tbsp canola oil 4 cloves garlic 1 tbsp grated ginger .5 tsp hot pepper flakes or hot pepper paste 1 large green peppers 1 medium zucchini (about 7 oz) ½ cup snow pea 2 large scalions 1 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce 1 tbsp rice vinegar 1 tbsp mirin .5 teaspoon agave nectar 2 tbsp cornstarch

Directions

Put water on to boil.

Rinse noodles and set aside.

Add noodles to boiling water and stir.

At the same time, heat wok and following steps below:

Chop garlic and grate ginger. Set aside. Cut peppers into long strips, Set aside Chop zucchini into long strips, Set aside.

Chop scallions

Make sauce: mix together soy sauce, rice vinegar, mirin and cornstarch.

Clean and shell shrimp, remove tails if you like. Add oil to piping hot wok and add garlic, ginger and hot pepper flakes/paste.

Stir for 30 seconds and add peppers. Stir.

Add Zucchini. Stir for 2 minutes.

Push veggies to side and dump in shrimp.

Stir-fry shrimp and veggies together for a minute.

Add snow pea and continue to stir.

Re-mix the sauce and add to stir-fry. Stir for a minute.

Drain noodles and add to wok. Turn off heat and mix to incorporate noodles. top with scallions and serve!

Number of Servings: 2

There are many more great recipes on the web. Here are some we like:

  • Miso Kimchi Soup: The homemade version
  • make mochi at home in less than 30 minutes

    Many people love mochi. Do you know that you can make mochi at home too? You can find the most required ingredients at PierMall.com. Here is the list:

    1) Sweet glutinous rice flour

    glutinous rice flour

    glutinous rice flour

    1) Sweet red bean paste

    glutinous rice flour

    glutinous rice flour

    3) Wheat or corn starch, you can find it in your local store

    Here is a step by step videos I found on youtube, which is quite helpful. Enjoy!

    Here is another one with some variations.

    Making Sushi at Home in Less Than 30 Minutes!

    Many people love sushi. You can make sushi at home easily. You can find the essential ingredients at PierMall. Here is the list:

    1) Edozen – Seaweed Nori for Sushi or Hand Roll – 50 Sheets + 1 Sushi Mat

    Seaweed Nori sheet for sushi

    Seaweed Nori sheets + 1 Sushi Mat

    or
    Roasted Seaweed Nori Sheet – Full size, 10 sheets per bag

    Seaweed Nori sheet for sushi

    Seaweed Nori sheet

    2) Sushi Rice mix for preparing sushi rice

    Sushi Mat

    Sushi Rice mix

    3) bamboo sushi mat

    Sushi Mat

    bamboo sushi mat

    3) Various fresh produces, which can be found near you.

    4) Here are the products that will help you to enjoy sushi :) :

  • Japanese Wasabi powder

    Japanese Wasabi powder

    Japanese Wasabi powder

  • Japanese Wasabi powder
  • Kikkoman Soy Sauce

    Soy Sauce

    Japanese Soy Sauce

  • Bamboo Chopsticks (Real Chopstick, reusable)

    Bamboo Chopsticks

    Bamboo Chopsticks

  • Here is a step by step video I found on youtube, which makes the process very simple. Enjoy!

    Jujube Chinese Red Date – DIY recipes

    Jujube Chinese Red Date

    Jujube date is a very popular Chinese fruit. You can enjoy them fresh  during the fall (August~ October) in the northern China. But most frequently, they are enjoyed from dried fruit.  Here are some easy recipes that are popular in China.

    Several commonly used ingredients mentioned below can be found at PierMall.com:

  • Jujube Chinese Red Date
  • Dragon Eye Longan Fruit
  • Red Bean
  • Dried Goji Berry
  • Snow mushroom
  • For Health Benefit

    (1) For those who always feel fragile, tired, with poor sleeping quality
    Jujube Chinese Red date, Dragon Eye fruit, Lotus seed

    Wash all three ingredients
    Cook Lotus seed in water until soft,
    Add jujube date and dragon eye fruit for another 10 minute.
    Sweeten with sugar, rock sugar or honey.

    (2) For those with high blood pressure, high cholesterol
    Use 8 oz celery, 30 pieces of red date. Wash and boil in water together for 30 minutes. Drink and soup and eat both celery and date

    (3) For those recovering from sickness
    Cut lamb into small pieces, add shelled peanut and date, cook over medium heat for 2 hours. Eat both meat and soup

    (4) For those with excess brain work: poor sleep, forgiveness
    Cook jujube date 4 Oz, dragon eye fruit 4 Oz , walnut 2 Oz and American ginseng slices 0.5 oz together until soft, add 2 Oz honey mix together. Cool and stored in a air tight glass jar. Enjoy 1 table spoon morning and evening.
    Honey Peanut & Jujube

    4 Oz Dried jujube date,
    8 Oz Honey,
    4 Oz raw shelled peanut
    3 cups of wate
    Wash jujube date and peanut thoroughly, soak in the warm water for 15 minutes
    Combine 3 cups water and peanut, cook over gentle heat until peanut is soft
    Add jujube dates to the cooking pot, continue to cook for about 10 minutes or until jujube dates are soft but not overcooked.
    Drain the water and set the jujube date and peanut aside to cool

    Add honey to the pot and cook over low heat until it becomes sticky
    Add jujube dates and peanuts into honey, and mix them well.

    Jujube date paste
    Cook dried jujube dates for 10 minutes or until it is soft.
    Make sure do not overcook the dates, which might turn sour when overcooked.
    Puree the cooked dates in a food processor,
    Sweeten with sugar.
    Work the date into smooth paste.

    It can be used as spread for the bread, filling for many other things, such as: bread, cookies, dessert and steaming bun

    Snow mushroom Jujube soup
    10 Jujube dates
    20 Goji berries
    20 peanuts or dried lotus seeds
    2 large Snow Mushroom

    1 cup of Medium grain rice or sweet glutinous rice
    Sugar (black, brown, white or rock sugar)

    Soak the snow mushroom in cold water for 4 hours
    Wash the mushroom thoroughly. Break into smaller pieces and remove the hard part of the roots. Wash jujube date, Goji, and peanut/lotus seed
    In a pot, combine rice with peanut/lotus seed, cook over high heat until boiling
    Reduce the heat to medium heat, add snow mushroom and continue to cook
    When the peanut/lotus seed is soft, add jujube date and goji berry and continue cook until they are all soft . Snow mushroom will become gel like

    Cook in slow cooker: This soup can also be cooked with slow cooker. Just add all ingredients except jujube dates into the pot, Cook over high heat for 3~4 hours, or low heat for 5~6 hours until all ingredients are very soft. Add jujube and continue cook for 30 minutes before serving.

    Tips: When the jujube date is overcooked, it will turn sour. So add the jujube in the last step. Usually it only requires 30 minutes’ cooking time. If you use black or brown sugar, the soup will turn dark color

    The rice can be optional in this recipe. When there is no rice added, the soup is more gel like.
    Eight Treasure soup
    This is the traditional Chinese dessert. There are many different forms: Ba Bao Soup, Ba Bao Rice Cake, ba Bao Rice Dishes etc The ingredients are all similar: there are at least 8 different things. Sweet rice, Red beans, jujube date are the essentials. For the rest, you can add anything. Just use your imagination. Here is one example:
    6 Oz Sweet rice (gluto rice)
    4 oz Chinese Red bean (Or Japanese Azuki bean,. But it can be replaced with red kidney bean). Green Bean (mung bean) can also be used.
    2 oz Raisin
    2 Oz raw shelled peanut
    2 oz Lotus seed
    2 Oz pine nut (or walnut)
    2 oz dried jujube date
    2 oz Longan dragon eye (shelled dried whole fruit or seedless dried fruit)
    4 cups of water.

    Wash sweet rice and soak in water for 3 hours
    Cook sweet rice, peanut and lotus seed in cold water until they are soft
    Add longan dragon eye, jujube date and pine nut and continue cook until the rice become sticky
    Add raisin and sugar, cook for another 15 minutes
    Serve.

    Tips: If you want to release the flavor of dragoneye into the soup, add it early. The fruit itself will become tasteless if cook for long. If you want to keep the sweetness in the fruit itself, add the longan fruit together with jujube.

    Slow cooker version:
    This soup can also be cooked in a slow cooker:
    Add water, rice, peanuts and lotus seed in the slower cooker Cook in High for 3~4 hours, or in Low for 4~5 hours
    Add dragon eye fruit, jujube red date and raisin and sweeten the soup 30~45 minutes before serving.

    Tip: If you like thick soup, add less water. You can always start with less water and adjust the water during the cooking.

    Walnut jujube date soup

    This soup is great for the brain function
    4 Oz medium grain rice
    0.5 oz walnut
    O,5 oz jujube date
    Wash all three ingredients
    Soak the rice for 30 minutes
    Add rice and walnut with 4 cups of cold water
    Cook over high heat until boiling
    Add jujube date, cook over low heat for 45 minutes
    Sweeten

    Ginger Jujube soup

    0.2 Oz Ginger slices
    0.6 Oz dried jujube dates
    1 oz brown sugar or black sugar

    This is an excellent drink for the cold day. It is also good for the relief of Dysmenorrhea symptom in winter.

    Wash date thorough,
    1. Slice ginger
    2. Add all three ingredients in 2 cups of water
    3. Cook over high heat until boiling
    4. Turn down the heat, continue cook 10 minutes
    5. Drink the soup

    PierMall.com First Thanksgiving Sale!

    Thank you everyone for your continious support. PierMall will not be able to do well today without all our wonderful customers. As our thanks to you, hundreds of PierMall products are all on sale from 11/26~12/02.

    Come visit us today for PierMall.com’s first Thanksgiving sale!

    Korean Seaweed Snack vs Japanese Seaweed Snack

    Today, I encountered an inquiry from one of our customers. He bought a bag of Japanese seaweed snack

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    and a bag of Korean Seaweed snack

    Both are great stuffs…. for us. However, it doesn’t seem so for this customer, who was new to the seaweed. After devouring the super crispy Korean seaweed, he found the taste of Japanese seaweed is quite dull and thought it was stale.

    The truth is, the Japanese seaweed snack is just as fresh as the Korean seaweed snack. The difference in the taste was due to how the seaweed snack was made by Korean or Japanese.

    Korean style seaweed snack are usually seasoned and roasted in sesame oil (most of the time). You can do one experiment. Use a fine tissue, or simply use your finger to rub the Korean seaweed gently, you will see/feel the oil on the tissue or your finger.

    Because the Korean seaweed has been roasted in oil, it is very crispy and it stays that way very long. Japanese seaweed, on the other hand, is not added with any oil. They are simply seasoned and dried roasted, just like the seaweed nori used for sushi making. The Japanese seaweed snack is not very crispy. It gains some degree of crispy from being very dried, but you will never have a Japanese seaweed snack or nori sheet as crispy as Korean ones.

    Because it is not oiled, many new comers to seaweed snacks might find the Korean seaweed is more attractive than the Japanese one.

    Nevertheless, after enjoying the Korean seaweed for a while, you might find the mild, “plainer” Japanese seaweed to be just as enjoyable. You can use it to roll the rice, meat, sprinkle over the noodle, soup or eat out of packets. Many many ways to enjoy. At 4 calories per 12 strips, you don’t have to worry too much on how much calories you are taking in.

    Just like Fried Chicken, it tastes great, but one day you might find a grilled Chicken to be just as tasty as the fried one……..

    We love all different kinds of seaweed snack. PierMall.com carries

    4 different seaweed snacks:

    Korean Seaweed - Low salt - 3 bags

    Korean Seaweed - Low salt - 3 bags

    Korean Seaweed Snack - Green Tea

    Korean Seaweed Snack - Green Tea

    Original Korean Seaweed - 1 case

    Original Korean Seaweed - 1 case

    Japanese seaweed snack

    Japanese seaweed snack (light spicy)- Value pack available

    PierMall.com also carry many different seaweed nori for sushi:

    50 sheets seaweed nori + 1 Sushi Mat

    50 sheets seaweed nori +1 Sushi Mat (product of China)

    Seaweed Nori for Sushi (China)

    Seaweed Nori for Sushi (China)

    Seaweed Nori for Sushi (Japan)

    Seaweed Nori for Sushi (Japan)

    There are many types available, available in single bag or value pack. Search for “Seaweed”

    A good place to stock up Halloween candies

    Free shipping at $25, these popular candies have a very good price! Close to the price offered in warehouse club.. Plus, you have something quite unique and scary enough to get some “wow”.

    Nestle Halloween Assorted

    Nestle Halloween Assorted - Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Crunch Chocolate, 56-Ounce Bags (Pack of 2)

    Wonka Mix-upsl

    Wonka Mix-ups, Halloween, 64-Ounce Bags (Pack of 2)

    Morinaga Caramel

    Wonka Mix-ups, Halloween, 64-Ounce Bags (Pack of 2)

    Nestle Classic Scream

    Nestle Classic Scream Halloween, 32-Ounce Bags (Pack of 2)

    Nestle Classic Scream

    Nestle Classic Scream Halloween, 32-Ounce Bags (Pack of 2)

    Nestle Classic Scream

    Wonka Mix-ups Monster, Halloween, 18.7-Ounce Bags (Pack of 4)

    Nestle Halloween Assorted

    Nestle Butterfinger, Halloween, Fun Size Bigger Bag, 24-Ounce Bags (Pack of 4)

    Nestle Halloween Assorted

    Nestle Halloween Assorted, Fun Size Bigger Bag, 21-Ounce Bags (Pack of 4)

    Nestle Halloween Assorted

    Wonka Nerds, Spooky Halloween, 18.7-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6)

    Halloween is Coming…

    The Jelly Belly Boo Box

    The Jelly Belly Boo Box

    Sounds like a good item for the office or home party. Here is the description of the item:

    This charming little haunted house is decorated with smiling jack-o’-lanterns and a ghost on the outside, but the best part is what’s inside! Take the roof off and you’ll find some scary-sweet Jelly Belly treats! Here’s what you’ll get:

    * One 9 oz. bag Deluxe Halloween Mix
    * One 8.5 oz. bag Sour Gummi Pumpkins
    * One Gummi Pet Rat (random flavor)
    * One Gummi Pet Tarantula (random flavor)
    * One 3.5. oz Beananza bag 20 Assorted Flavor jelly belly
    * Two 1 oz. bags Candy Corn

    Net weight 28 oz.


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