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

More than eight years ago, I have mentioned about Singapore losing our food culture, especially the hawker food culture. When I was a little boy, we would gather at my maternal grandmother's place each Sunday where grandma, my mum and her sisters would whipped out a storm especially for dinner at grandma's huge kitchen to feed the entire clan. Mum would continue to cook for us  the same recipe from grandma's time and add on to the list with her own. Nobody does that these days do they? So, it will die a natural death over time or in a generation or two. Our street or hawker food is the same. I had the fortune of experiencing our hawker culture almost from ground zero and saw, tasted and lived through how they have evolved. As a result, every time I eat something my memory runs wild to the good old days and I try to recall when and where was the first time I ate that particular food. Street food have evolved and they will find their footing on every street around the ...

Food is really one of the most important things in life. We eat when we gather or celebrate. we eat before and after sports or exercise or at other recreation. My blog aims to help others to improve, love themsevles more, gain confidence, have hope, be inspired, bring awareness, experienced love, slap you when you veer off course, get excited, discover new things, place, people, food, etc. Most of all I connect people. I told you the story of the Lucky Wan Ton noodle at the Tanjong Pagar Market food stall. Finally, I gave them my blog link and when the wife saw it on the mobile phone she was so excited and shouted across to her hubby who was cooking noodles "we are on the internet" in Mandarin. I was having a drink with a friend when she later came looking for me with a plate of freshly cooked steaming and crsipy specially made prawn dumplings. I stood up to pay her but she refused and instead told me that this prawn dumpling is something money could not buy as ...