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Delightful Hawker Finds

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After being alive for a long time you will find that life really is still too short. The elixir of youth is still elusive. Some eat to live and others live to eat. After eating for a long time you can get tired and one can walk around a food centre not knowing what to eat. This is eating fatigue made worse by the reduction of good hawker food as even the food scene in Singapore now has been commercialised. You own a food stall, decide what to sell, employ a couple of foreign workers and you just come back to collect your earnings. Almost everywhere you go to, the stalls look the same. Perhaps even the food tastes the same. Yet it is the hawker food that drives the economy and the irony is that some or quite many of these are bad for our health when they are too oily or salty, etc. But make no mistake, Singapore is food heaven. Hong Kong may boast better quality but if variety is the spice of life then Singapore has few peers. For me, it is getting harder to find good food stall...

Cari Makan

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Cari makan where cari means find and makan is to eat in the Malay language. Literally, finding food also means earning a living. If there's only one thing to love about Singapore, it must surely be the food. There are often times when we go "cari makan", we are not looking for lavish or expensive food. We just need something simple. If we have to nominate our best foods, those that are popular and everywhere and whom the people love must feature. Chicken rice, satay, bak kut teh, are favourites even for tourists and visitors. What about char kway teow, nasi lemak, mee goreng, rojak and popiah? There was a very good popiah stall at an old coffee shop at Martaban Road (next to Pegu Road) along Balestier Road. Then later a popiah restaurant was opened at Tanjong Pagar. You get a pot and make your own DIY popiah. Then we found a very good one at Whampoa where you can order and take home for your popiah party. What makes a good popiah? To begin with, the skin must no...

Endangered Species - Food

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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...