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

Delicious! What is delicious? Delicious is to be "delightful, pleasing to the senses and taste". In Hong Kong, you will find many famous restaurants and food stalls just like in Singapore. However, Hong Kongers are fastidious with their food. You can walk into any small road side stalls and the dumpling (wanton) noodle will still taste very good because they use fresh and good ingredients. Our forefathers of hawkers were all skilled in what they peddle. They took pride in what they do and sell. I fear that in the years ahead, we could lose all of our heritage and the good food as the food scene becomes commercialized. I hope that a new generation will take over the baton passed on to them by their parents or that these food hawkers will train some new students who are willing but this is just a wish as a hawker's life is tough. Talking about delicious, a particular stall and the food they serve came to my mind. We may be spoiled by restaurant food and fine dinin...

If you are always eating at fancy restaurants, you may soon get tired no matter how good the food. This is especially so if you do lots of entertainment in your work. When this happens, you simply want heartland food - as simple as they come. In some places on earth, there is no food and here we are spoilt for choices and there are times you are tired of eating. I saw a clip of a family in the Philippines where the father will collect leftovers from a fried chicken and noodle joint where the rich and well off would leave behind their half-eaten food and when he got home his children will happily run to him and they would gather to say their grace before eating joyfully. Talking about chicken, I found this chicken joint at the Heartland Mall @ Kovan quite refreshing in that somehow it is not oily even for the fried ones. and the serving is not too large, just now. Frankly, we are always overeating. BBQ Chicken Qiji Sometim...