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...

I saw a friend's posting on facebook. He wanted to eat Yong Tau Foo at about 9pm but when he got to the destination, the stall was already closed for the day. So I asked him where it is located and he gave me the address and said he heard it is good. I never forgot some food because I was first introduced to them during my childhood days and you remember them because it was your first and you either love them or hate them. Some of those you may not like turned out to be something you like when you get older but those that come in bottles never really changed. First the milk bottle, then the Coke bottle followed by the beer bottle and finally the IV drip bottle. They all comes in bottles. When I was a child, grandma would buy me a stick of fish balls or "ngoh hiang" drip with sweet sauce and I liked them but never got to appreciate the rest of yong tau foo. It is a very unique dish that comes in a wide variety of selection mostly with fish paste coated on tau pok,...

I think passion is very important. You need to be passionate about your belief, your work or hobbies. It maketh the man. I discovered something special at Tanjong Pagar Block 8. At a coffee shop call Hainan@7, there is a very special food. It is called "Fish Man'. If you are a lover of fish, do come and try it. As for me, this is a solid fish place. They serve deep sea fish. From Halibut which is their speciality to pomfret and even unagi. Pomfret always seems to sell out before dinner. Read all about the power of halibut. They have both deep-fried habibut as well as grilled halibut. I have been quite addicted to grilled halibut. A well grilled fish a very powerful. So do call me when you are in town. I can do you the honours. I can tell you it is not easy to to grilled halibut in such a way. This is Paul cooking and ensuring you will enjoy your lunch or dinner. This is the grilled halibut with some cajun powder sprinkled over it. I da bao 打 包 h...

Venezuela, Dominica, Lebanon, New Caledonia and Guatemala visited my blog to cross the century mark, with Guatemala being the 104 country to have done so. Maybe I should do it like Changi Airport and sponsor some Venezuela Miss World to Singapore since they were the 100th country to have done so. I used to save money to buy an Apple Song Book for 101 songs as a teenager. Today an iPod is usually given to the youngsters and it could carry thousands of songs in it. The irony of life is often, as we progress, we actually regress. If you drop your cell phone into the sh*t hole while texting or tweeting your friends "shitting in office now" you won't even remember any number of your friends. When people ask for for phone number, I tell them "sorry, I won't know as I do not call myself". I have said it before, lots of good hawker food will all disappear in the next 5-10 years. It is not just gut feeling but I have actually spoken to real hawkers. The belo...