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...

My Initiation I have noticed that there is something about goats that are special. Haven't you heard "as sure-footed as a goat"? Then you see some human species actually sporting a "goatee". I have fond memories of days gone by where Indian men with twisted moustaches rode on bicycles peddling goat's milk usually placed in used Coco Cola or other glass bottles and with a piece of card paper twirled around and used as a stopper. They would then place these bottles in the slots on both sides of a canvass hung around their bicycle frame and riding around for distribution and sales. Goat Milk My grandmother or mother would sometimes purchase a couple of bottles and they would boil it over a pot for awhile so as to "kill any germs" in it and they would say that goat milk is very nutritious. Later, they would add a little bit of sugar to make it taste better. Somehow I love this milk. The last time I found a stall selling goat milk was at Tanjon...