No, that’s not a new UPN show. It’s some of the traditional Singaporean food that I got reaquainted with. I met up with Dimsumdolly this evening. She and her red shoes (cuz that’s how I found her at the MRT station where we met up) took me around to some neat places.
We wound up in East Coast (apparently a tradition since my last trip out here) and wound up at some food stalls that claimed to have the “Best Laksa”. And they did, depending on the newspaper/website/TV show that was quoted. And after she ordered and we started eating, I realized I’ve never written about these. So heeere we go….
The dish in the middle of the two bowls is Rojak, a interesting dish with a cool manly sounding name. Sounds Klingon, actually. “I am Rojak, son of Baggh”. OK, no more Star Trek references.
Rojak is a sort of salad, but according to DSD, its not healthy like a traditional salad. I believe that! It feels more like the main course of a meal then just a “salad”. The bowls flanking the rojak is Laksa, a rice noodle (yum) and prawn soup. The soup has coconut milk and chili paste and other spices in it along with seafood. RICH STUFF. This alone is a meal! Yum yum yum.
After that meal and a few beverages (which I kanna remember exactly what), we wound up farting around East Coast. We passed by Charlie’s (from dinner with the lovely Sara-Ann back in May) and picked up some “authentic Hong Kong dim-sum” in the form of chau siu bau for DSD who was fighting a bug. And not winning. We wandered through the Malay Village but that wasn’t too much fun because everything there was closed. Instead, we wound up at the Fullerton for dessert. Better choice. We both ordered a dessert set (coffee, dessert) for S$15 each. Wasn’t bad, considering the price of alcohol (more than the dessert set). DSD had tiramisu and I had a creme brulee with coconut ice cream and shards of coconut on top.
Wound up chatting about all sorts of stuff before we and the MRT began turning into pumpkins (translation: it got late). Fun evening.
Yes, i love my red shoes!!! 🙂
And you have to do better in future in the eating department. I out-ate you hands down! Hehheh.