Today I accompanied my church friend to buy a computer at Sim Lim Square. On the way back to the MRT, we walk thru Bugis and he introduced and treated me to many å°?å?ƒ (xiao chi) stuff like 算盘å?(suan pan zi) and others. (my stomach is bursting! and still got handful of packets to bring home)
I later dropped by PS (Plaza Singapura) thinking I would find the Mini-toon sale and walkies talkies.
Best Denki had some talkies. But I couldnt find a mini-toon outlet there. My memory swapped the Action City with Minitoons.
What I found was Carrefour book sale. I bought 3 chinese cooking books (herbal tea egg, hor fun, milk tea/shakes), 1 Malay cooking book of Singapore and Malaysian recipes. 2 books for nerds like me: “Just A Geek” by Wil Wheaton, “Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler” by Edward G. Nilges published by A. Press.
Reason I wanted to buy the latter book was that it touched on lexical parsing. I found another book on cross-platform programing - .Net and MONO. The introduction quoted Steve Jobs saying Linux is good, Linus saying Microsoft issnt evil, and Bill Gates saying only Mac meets the standard. But I didnt buy the book. I bought a cheap dustpan and broom instead for $1.
Today, the first time I cook at dish at home (with some help). Reminds me, cooking’s not only what you throw into the wok and dance over the fire. Its planning the dishes (steal some secret recipes), shopping for ingredients (”marketing”?), preparing the ingredients (wash, clean) and utensils, cooking, serving, clean up. I was a horrible student in my Home Economics class, but I covered up by my partner, a top student who didnt complained much (thanks jansy).
The dish I cooked? Char Kway Teow, “fried flat noodles”, ç‚’æžœæ?¡ is my favorite dish, also among Singaporeans, Malaysians, and maybe south-east Asians. Its nice, aromatic, but maybe not so healthy in the long run (oil!). As for links and recipes, wiki, Singaporean, Malaysia, Vitnamese recipe. I spent about $6 for more than 6 plates of serving. Its said that it used to be a cheap labourer’s dish. Nows its a delicacy with many different ingredients added.
My brother told me Pizzas was the food the poor could afford in Italy. My campmate says shark fins were given to the beggars by the fishermen in China last time. Anymore interesting poor’s person food?
Whats my next dish? Due to the extra packet of noodles I bought, maybe I’ll try Hokkien Mee or Hor Fun
For some time, I wish I could eat those nice yet cheap yet good food at the hawker centers.
Nowadays some hawker centers price are shooting skywards… almost the price found at airconditioned food court. Even some "old" hawker centers food are getting expensive with lost of quality.
Today I ate at a food court which looks a little old, yet not run down. Vendors seems to be the older generation, but food is good, and prices are the old reasonable prices we.
My sugarcane drink.
My mixed fishcake and noodles with chilli.
A playful cat spotted under a bench.
Here’s the place.
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