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

In the modern day family nucleus it gets harder to whip up a storm at the kitchen at home. The smaller family unit and when the children or one or two persons when not joining a meal means it gets even harder to prepare a meal. So when even parents are too busy, it gets even harder for everyone to sit down for a meal together. Yet, this is a very important session for family bonding and communication. So we are left with having to have our meals outside. The question is even in Food Paradise Singapore you do not know what to eat. I figure one way to beat the blues is to keep things simple. The simple no frills food like fish soup or fish porridge is really just fish in soup with some vegetables and tofu and with rice. It is really easy to eat and is hearty and healthy. The humble Teochew fish soup and porridge is such. While the Cantonese "chok" (congee) is soft and comes with different base like with pork, century egg and others with raw fish. the Teochew style is simply...

Do you live to eat or eat to live? Sometimes you are not sure like standing over a golf ball on the green not knowing if the break is left or right so you just go straight and hope for the best. In days of old, all the food people are highly skilled practitioners who took great pride in peddling their food. Whether it is your prawn noodle, mee rebus, mee siam, satay, chee cheong fun or hor fun they tasted good mostly and were healthier. For every dish they prepared, they do all the ingredients by themselves. Today's food mostly come from a central kitchen somewhere or they sourced the ingredients from a supplier. In fact, some are completely supplied to them. The worst food are those they cooked in advance and then when you order, they just heat it up and serve. No food should be prepared and served that way! You walk into a food court and you see the same food everywhere - minced meat/mushroom noodle, chicken rice, roast pork, duck rice, fried kway teow, Korean food, Japanese...