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

I like surprises as in surprising finds. An element of surprise always please everyone and stuns your opponents. I have also been lamenting about the state of our local food since quite some years back that we are losing our heritage in particular hawker food and tze char stalls.  In my youth and younger, within a 500 metre radius where I used to lived there are at least three tze char stalls and they are all good. There was one called Red Leaf, the chef was a fair and skinny man who was the towkay himself. His stove with raging fire was near the front where you order your food and it always intrigued me watching him parade his skills tossing the food in it he air from the wok burning the hor fun and fried rice relentlessly. I could only afford hor fun, yee mee or bee hoon fried or soup. His food is good and I frequented because it was less dear and the wait is shorter. One block away there was another which was very good but I never remembered its name may be because it...

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...

Food Oh Glorious Food! Singapore is food paradise. Among the different races, there are already such a great variety. When you add on those other international flavours like French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Sudanese, Mediterranean, etc. it is quite endless. From hotels, famous restaurants to hawker fares plus the many eating houses sprouting all over the places so quickly, we really have to exercise self-control as there are something always to satisfy your palate and cravings. Do we just love food or because we have nothing else to do? Do you live to eat or eat to live? It's a glutton's delight and gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins! Whatever the reason, what are your favourites? Fried Rice You can find chicken rice everywhere. The Hainanese steamed chicken version, roasted type or those braised in dark soy sauce all dip with power chili sauce with ginger and dark soy sauce are the most common. Beyond chicken rice and way before it became so popular, the very...