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

Although Korean food is good, I thought it is quite limited. I often stick to Bulgogi beef, chicken, pork, kimchi, bibimbap, etc. until I paid a visit to "sbcd Korean Tofu House". They do not just do tofu but a variety of delicious Korean food. Of course their Soontofu is a specialty. I learned that soon in Korean means soft unlike our local dialect where we may have Soon Soon Porridge or Soon Soon whatever which literally means smooth. I visited this one at Tanjong Pagar Centre. It is a big restaurant that is spacious, airy and clean.  There you go with their philosophy - uplifting and complete meal. The Korean restaurant actually came from the US of A and the restaurant in Korea is called BCD or Buk Chang Dong so sbcd may mean Singapore BCD perhaps. They even have unagi which I have not tried as I thought this dish is more Japanese but I would probably try it some day. Unagi which is made from eel are actually eaten during summer due to the summer heat as m...

To whet your appetite means to hone or make more keen or to stimulate your appetite. It is different from wetting your bed. Everybody loves food but the question is whether you eat to live or live to eat. Those around my age will testify about the good old days where even hawkers do not hawk their fares or other businesses would peddle their wares if they were  not good at it. They took great pride in their work and they prepared every ingredient on their own. So when you can find good food today, it becomes like a birdie in golf. A rare gem. People kept asking me to write more on food. They like it because I do not talk about those famous ones but find unknown gems and polish them like a King-maker and boy oh boy I have had some very unexpected and pleasant experiences. I help put hawkers on and they got so excited and proud of themselves. To start you off healthy, also done previously I'll give you Yong Tau Fu. This one is at Bedok where you will find a good spa nearby and i...