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

Do you remember food or places that hark back eons ago? They always say "the good old times" never the good new times. So why do we get carried away and keep making things new? Is it the reason why we call it the human race? We just needed to race?  The good old times must have been just a myth. No one ever thought it good at the time. Actually, every age has its own crises of the time. Some were quite intolerable to the people at the time and who lived through it all. Could it be that in the end you always go back to the people that were there in the beginning? Is there anyway that could let people know that they are in the ''good old times'' before they have left them? Time will always fly and things will always change but memories my friend, they stay with you forever till the end of days. This week I went back in time to find an old favourite restaurant that I have frequented but it has become new. It was my most frequented restaurant at one time not ju...

All of you know Teppanki which is 铁 板 (teppan) and yaki which means pan-fried or grilled so teppanyaki are dishes cooked on an iron-plated heated surface. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQOlB1yW9f4 There are various stories of its origin as some say it originated from America. In fact, it is a Japanese restaurant chain that introduced this concept of somewhat Western style food on teppan sometime in 1945. It was not too popular for the Japanese as they were for tourists when compared with more typical Japanese cuisines. However, most enjoyed watching the chef's manoeuvre while preparing their food. As it got along, show boating the chef's skills and antics became part of the performance. In the United States, the first teppanyaki opened in New York in the 60s.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVORIn-WGCA I can't remember exactly when was the first time I had teppanyaki. Maybe it was at the Jurong Hilltop Restaurant but the favourite of the time was Shima Re...