Food Freight

A friend shared with me how he brought packs of Ba Chor Mee ( minced pork noodles) back to the US. So I thought, "why not bring some back to Beijing for Daniel?".

I headed for our fav BCM store - Tai Hua Ba Chor Mee - at Crawford Street. This store used to be at Marina Square's outdoor food court... yea, the one with super duper long queues. The queues haven't gotten gotten any shorter. Everytime we're home, that's where we head for a noodle fix., sometimes waiting as long as 1hr for a $4 bowl of noodles!!!


Anyway, I savoured every bite of my noodles at the coffee shop, then doggy bagged 3 packs for Daniel.

The process of transporting noodles across the South China Sea is quite simple:
1. Purchase the noodles ( hahaha... most basic step right???)
2. let noodles cool and tranfer to a ziplock bag
3. Freeze noodles till they are rock solid
4. Transfer noodles into a cooler bag and pack into check-in luggage
5. Upon arrival at destination, check noodles back into a freezer to maintain "freshness"
6. Defrost and heat up before eating.

Daniel's tried a pack already and it wasn't too bad at all. Not as good as eating it freshly prepared but yummilicious nonetheless. Especially when there's no available supply in where we are!

Apart from BCM for human consumption, I also lugged back a 9kg pack of cat food for Ody & Pisase. 9kg!!! Because of that, I had to leave behind half my clothes and hand carry the rest. And unfortunately, I could only carry back 1 tin of milk for a friend... At the airport, my bag weighed in at a hefty 27kg. I had to remove stuff/ transfer to hand carried luggage. My parents told me to toss the BCM but there was NO WAY I was going to do that! I'll give up the clothes but not the noodles!!!

HDB upgrading is done!

Now I have 2 nice new toilets, new windows, and new front gate!

Bedroom toilet

New 2 way tap from Sim Siang Choon. I always thot they sold eggs...

New bug-proof light. Cos there are no gaps!


new windows and gate

Comfortable in my own skin

I tried my hand at editing HTML to change this blog skin. All the while thinking, "damn, i should have paid attention during the Pakistani lecturer's class". Back in uni we had to learn the basics of html and design a webpage for which class.. I forget. I obviously failed horribly.

Anyway, this new skin is work in progress while I try to figure out the language. The clouds pix is one my sis managed to catch from the new hilltop walk at Henderson road. Actually it's a croppped picture. The full pix is seen below . Excuse the unglam outfit. I was afterall up there to exercise!!!

More epicurean adventures in Singapore

To the folks who live in Singapore, blogging photos of the everyday dishes I've had in Singapore may seem pretty dumb . But as Maureen points out to everyone and contantly reminds me," My friend Chenyi, from China." Last night's statement was, " My friend Chenyi, from China, has not eaten Laksa." What she failed to add was, "... not eaten Laksa in 1 year". People assumed I have NEVER eaten laksa. Thank huh Maureen. That is not very possible being Singaporean.

So last night I had Laksa at Holland Village followed by drinks at... drumroll... you guessed it... Wala Wala. This was followed by supper at the corner coffee shop where I had Roti Prata. Love prata. I can eat it anytime, anywhere. In anticipation of the astounding amounts of cholestrol to be consumed last night, I went for a jog beforehand.

Here are pictures of the Singapore Hawker delights that I have indulged upon in the last couple of days since the last food post.

1. Beef rice at Pepper Lunch

2. Beehoon with string beans and fried fish fillet

3. Glorious Roti Prata

4. Ba Chor Mee at a food court

5. Katong Laksa and Otak at Holland Village

finding the right skin

is like finding a little part of you... something that represents who you are, what you like. And is clear from this blog skin what I like!! Still trying to find one that fits me right...