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

We all love food. From Western to Eastern. Northern or Southern. Even if it were cuisines from the same country, North and South can be different not just for food but for the people. Only in Singapore, everywhere is the same. If all the world is a stage as William Shakespeare suggested then Singapore is a world stage of food. We are so spoilt for choices and variety, you should all really thank God to be here. Add superb convenience to that. We headed for Vivo City (please note Vivo City is not a football club from the EPL) and we did the Jiang Nan style. Colourful  Xiao Long Bao representing the different flavours. Lovely. If there are better XLB, I haven't found them. Wonderful appetisers - pork, silver fish (it is a fish not that insect that eats your books and you wish you have many so they eat away your books and you won't need to study) and shoots. I didn't know that shoots can taste this good! Pandas are smart animals. A panda walked into a Bar a...

You will find people doing all kinds of things in this world just so that they can catch your attention, make a name for themselves and be famous or to win some money. They keep the world's longest finger nails, jump from the tallest buildings, sleep with the most poisonous snakes. In Hokkien, we say "kah chua koon". On television you watch the Fear Factor and you get people eating a bowl of worms till they puke. Why do such things because someone throw money at you? I look for other more dangerous things to do like eating. Do you know that whenever you eat and swallow, this little thing called an epiglottis, a flap at the base of your throat prevents food and liquid from getting into your airway and therefore, prevent you from choking to death. This happens all the time and every time. Some times you may choke a little because your epiglottis is not sure if you are talking or eating. So do not talk when eating. It is the same for golf when your hands is not sure wha...