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Do you love eating? I mean do you REALLY LOVE FOOD? Are you the type who thinks about what's for dinner immediately after lunch? Are you so obsessed with food that you actually enjoy eating airline food?
Well I am. My neighbours used to call me 'Ah Pui' (Fatty in Hokkien) when I was young no thanks to my insatiable appetite. Today, besides my close friends, no one calls me that anymore BUT I still think about food most of the time. So it finally occurred to me one day that I should actually have a food review on my homepage so that the world can share in my passion. ( Wah! So noble! )
Every few weeks or when I discover something I like or whenever I have the time, whichever comes first, I will introduce a dish which I feel is worthy of mention on my homepage. Unlike other food columns I will not be givng stars for this or that, cos needless to say I will only introduce the very best.
On your part, you are expected to patronise the stall and agree with everything I've said about it!
Oh yes, if you know of any place which might merit my attention, I'll be more than happy to hear from you.
Hakka Yong Tau Hoo is very different from the ones we normally get at hawker centres. The tau hoo and other condiments are mostly fried and have a thick brown sauce poured over it together with the noodles. Here you don't get the red sweet sauce which is nice for a change.
Also different is that you don't have a wide variety of ingredients to choose from. What the stall offered was a choice of Set A or Set B, i.e with or without greens. Well, I chose Set A because I remember my mom telling me that greens were good for us. For all you carnivores out there, I guess you could choose Set B, but then you shouldn't even be eating Yong Tau Hoo in the first place!
The noodles came with , tau hoo (what did you expect!), brinjal (yum) , minced pork, tau pok and lady's finger (I think this is where the 'green' came from), all for $3.50. It's not cheap but neither is it expensive by food court standards. Most importantly it was Filling!!! And thats a lot more than I can say for a lot of the stalls selling noodles in food courts and hawker centres nowadays! So if you're ever hungry in Wisma Atria, forget about Mcdonald's and head for Yong Tau Hoo on the 4 floor. It's defintely cheaper and a whole lot more nutritious. That , I'm sure your mum would agree.
by S.P. Low
Something hit me the other day, NO not killer litter but an idea! It occurred to me that while most of us city slickers will know very useful things like the difference between an Air Jordan 5 and 6 or even the profound reason why Singtel insists on calling its PCN network GSM 1800, most of us don't really know how to pick fruits.
I think knowing how to pick fruits is very important... OK, chope first, for all you dumbos out there who are wondering why on earth should we know how to pick fruits when the closest most of us will get to an orchard is going to Orchard Road?
Its becos, I not talking about picking fruits from trees!!! I'm referring to selecting the ripe fruits from the fruit shop! ( incidently, does anyone know what you call a fruit seller? ) Sigh...
And to aid us in our quest today, I've called upon my father , the self professed farm boy, fruit picking extrodinare! When he's not busy upgrading flats, you'll probably find him going through the mountains of fruits at you neighbourhood fruit stall. So we should be in good hands.
"Knowing how to pick fruits is very important. If you pick a ripe fruit, it will be sweet; if you pick an unripe fruit, it will not be sweet."
Thats all for now ,come back later for more.
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