www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

After being alive for a long time you will find that life really is still too short. The elixir of youth is still elusive. Some eat to live and others live to eat. After eating for a long time you can get tired and one can walk around a food centre not knowing what to eat. This is eating fatigue made worse by the reduction of good hawker food as even the food scene in Singapore now has been commercialised. You own a food stall, decide what to sell, employ a couple of foreign workers and you just come back to collect your earnings. Almost everywhere you go to, the stalls look the same. Perhaps even the food tastes the same. Yet it is the hawker food that drives the economy and the irony is that some or quite many of these are bad for our health when they are too oily or salty, etc. But make no mistake, Singapore is food heaven. Hong Kong may boast better quality but if variety is the spice of life then Singapore has few peers. For me, it is getting harder to find good food stall...

Recently I had a fetish. All of us need a "go to" place, some for food, others to a pub and in golf there will be days where nothing seems to work and you will need a "go to" club, a club that works even on a bad day, something you can rely on like a good old friend. Even in soccer, you have those "go to" players. When things are against you, when the chips are down, put in the "go to" players.  My "go to" food most recently has been "Sa Bo Fan". It's not a sabo fan but clay pot rice.  I know of popular ones at Beach Road and Chinatown but I wanted them somewhere nearer to home and I found two places that served pretty good stuffs - one at Kovan and the other at Hougang.  Good Chinese sausages, tender chicken, wee bits of salted fish and a great dark soy sauce with intense heat are important. It is easy to eat, simple and delicious.  Because I had clay pot rice and I saw someone ordered the "sesam...