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

I last shared with you and promised to be back with more. More food, more information and more pictures. So I set up for this mission and this time I brought the family along including my parents. You see, mum is a very good cook and dad is discerning about his food. So they can only lend credence to what I already knew. This time, there were nine of us. I was in the driver's seat. Of course we have the usual stir-fried thin bee hoon and the lala. The lala was not too spicy such that you get your full taste of garlic and the natural sweetness from the ingredients. These prawn fritters were given a light touch of flour that it was easy on the palate. Use your tongue and let it touch the roof of your mouth. What you are touching with your tongue is your palate. When someone says they have expensive palate that means he likes only expensive treats. If you only like fancy food then you have a sophisticated palate. You are said to have well developed palate if you are a...

The very first time I had food from No Sign Board was at a food centre at McPherson at the Jackson Place. They had one of the best if not the best chili crab. Buying two huge crabs for take away would set you back by about $50 but they were really yummy and mind you, you have to wait for at least half an hour if lucky. This place of course is no more. The business has become a popular chain of restaurants. I had the opportunity to try this one at Vivo City. No Signboard actually has a signboard. The ribs were good. Coffee ribs. We had some fresh vegetables with mushrooms and toufu. Sweet and sour pork was pretty good too. Oats prawn. Actually I just need the oats. Steamed Garoupa is always good but these good stuffs like some fish, crabs, lobsters, etc. like to come with a "Seasonal Price" which can be quite frightening. I am not sure if I can tell my boss for some months of my work, I would like to charge a seasonal price. Like the fish, stormy...

There is something special about Changi Village. I have featured CV on a few occasions on fishing, visit to Pulau Ubin, hotel staycation and the hawker food here. When we used to visit Changi as a child it was a place so far away it seemed to take forever to reach as the infrastructure and even the bus services were so different then. Changi Village besides being so laid back, is a place that evokes nostalgia. The good old life of days gone by. It is the only place in Singapore where you will find countless numbers of wild parakeets and some cuckatoos giving you the bird's eye view of human life below them. There are also the occasional sightings of hornbills from Pulau Ubin. A couple of friends stumbled upon a place for a meal which inevitably led to beer. One thing led to another and then we have four. We found ourselves at Jacob's Cafe.  Air-conditioned setting on the inside lets you get comfy while the open space outside in a laid back setting gives you al f...