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

You can't blame Americans if they do not understand the rest of the world can you? By themselves, they are huge and have too many places and things to discover within their own country. What about Singapore? Do you know your Singapore? Sometimes I do wonder if it is actually easier to find things in a big bungalow than a small house. Our small "Singapore" house is changing too quickly. Just like recently, when my son brought us to a makan (eating) place. It was a surprising find for me to discover "Mr. Teh Tarik" Eating House, a 24-hour relax one corner style heartland place at Block 608 Ang Mo Kio Ave 5. It is actually nearby (opposite) the Adam Road Nasi Lemak (Block 603). When here, first thing first - Order the teh tarik of course. For the uninitiated, teh tarik is tea with evaporated milk where you can have it hot or cold or with ginger added but the most important part has to be the drink being pulled high and down from...

Recently I had a fetish. All of us need a "go to" place, some for food, others to a pub and in golf there will be days where nothing seems to work and you will need a "go to" club, a club that works even on a bad day, something you can rely on like a good old friend. Even in soccer, you have those "go to" players. When things are against you, when the chips are down, put in the "go to" players.  My "go to" food most recently has been "Sa Bo Fan". It's not a sabo fan but clay pot rice.  I know of popular ones at Beach Road and Chinatown but I wanted them somewhere nearer to home and I found two places that served pretty good stuffs - one at Kovan and the other at Hougang.  Good Chinese sausages, tender chicken, wee bits of salted fish and a great dark soy sauce with intense heat are important. It is easy to eat, simple and delicious.  Because I had clay pot rice and I saw someone ordered the "sesam...