Laksa dinner...

Today was a busy day. It wasn't the usual busy but it was busy.

Does that make sense? Lol!

After work, I was supposed to go to a birthday party. However, I was just dead tired and I wanted a quiet evening so I told the celebrant I couldn't make it.

On the way back home, I passed by a Singaporean restaurant near the office to treat myself. Lol!

I've been meaning to try the food at the restau and I'm glad that I finally had a chance to do it.

Initially, I planned to get chicken rice and laksa. I eventually settled for laksa, chicken satay, and.... drumroll please... bubur hitam for dessert.

The food was good. This is Japan after all! Lol! Still, I could taste the difference from Toastbox's laksa and 328 Katong Laksa and the satay stalls at Lau Pa Sat.

I was one happy boy though... even though I had to shell out ¥3,000 for dinner. Hahaha!

Now, I have to look for another restau to satisfy my craving for rendang.

Singapore Chicken Rice in Tokyo!!! :D

So, I saw this while my visiting friend and I were looking for a lunch place near the office. Haha!

If not for my friend, I wouldn't have discovered this mini-weekend market near the office. It's a short walk away from the office and there are several food stalls and cutesy ornaments and knick knacks being sold.

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this food truck. Haha! I defo wanted to try it. However, my friend obviously wanted to eat at a proper restaurant. Hence, we kept on walking and I led him to Rose Bakery. Hahaha!

Definitely, I will try the chicken rice one of these days. It's about SGD10.

Singapore, you really miss me, don't you?! Haha!

Let's makan...

We had a department lunch earlier.

It was at a feast of local Malay dishes since the food had to be halal. I'm not complaining as I love Malay cuisine! If I didn't worry so much about my waistline expanding, I'll have beef rendang or ayam as often as I can. Hehe!

Weekend of happy meals...

Weekends are for happy meals. Haha!

Friday night, PG Boy and I went to Jollibee at LP. He said he was feeling down that day because of work stuff et al. I told him he needed a two-piece Chicken Joy. I also told him about Jollibee's tag line, "Sa Jollibee, Bida ang Saya!" Haha!

From LP, we walked over to neighbouring Paragon for dessert. PG Boy suggested we go to Bakerzin. We took a look at the cake selection. I selected my chocolate piece, PG Boy did the same. When the cakes arrived, whoa! We were both surprised! Haha! I ordered for a cake slice and what arrived was an art piece. I told PG Boy, "I'm quite sure this is priced differently from what was indicated on the cake display case. True enough, we were charged double the price. Hahahaha!

Saturday night, PG Boy and I joined his gang for din din. We went to Nam Nam at Suntec. The food was quite good. I want to go back to try the sandwiches. Dinner was followed by coffee and dessert at Pacific Coffee. There, PG Boy's friends regaled us with their adventures in Taipei during G5. Lol! If one is single and is into chinitos, forget Songkarn. Go to G5! Seriously.

Today, PG Boy's housemates and I headed to a neighbouring kopitiam for lunch. Gav reco'd the Western food stall. The man behind the counter was an unfriendly Filipino. "Koya, ngumiti ka naman!" Haha! I ordered the mixed grill plate. Initially, I thought one would either get a chicken chop or a pork chop with the sausage. Nope, to my surprise, it was a plate of artery-clogging goodies. For $8.90, it wasn't bad at all.

Tonight, I'm having a light dinner - probably just a bun and my black cherry juice.

For the next five days, it's definitely back to no rice and healthier choices (salad and yong tau foo.)

Clean eating wehhh...

What I've been eating for lunch and dinner lately. Lol!

Damn health screening results.

A suman by any other name...

Auntie gave me these last night. A little reading and I'm guessing it's because of the Dumpling Festival (?).

In Chinese, it's called zong zi. The Japanese call it chimaki. Singaporeans/Malaysians/Indonesians call it bakcang. Us Filipinos call it suman. Fil-Chinese call it machang.

Zong is a traditional Chinese food consumed during the Dragon Boat Festival. It's made of glutinous rice with different fillings wrapped in bamboo leaves.  It is cooked by steaming or boiling. The one Auntie gave me has red bean in it.

The Dragon Boat Festival is based on the Chinese lunar calendar. It is celebrated on the 5th Day of the 5th month. Hence, it is also called Double Fifth Festival. This year it'll be on the 23rd of June.
The festival is said to commemorate the sacrifice of Chinese poet Qu Yuan. History has it written that he drowned himself in a river to protest against rulers.

To pay tribute to him, people threw dumplings into the river with the aim of stopping fish to feed on his body and to scare the fish away.

In Singapore, dragon boat races are organized. This symbolizes the search for Qu Yuan's body in the river.

Amazing how much story behind a small delicacy, yeah?!

And here I was thinking Auntie had nothing to do that evening, and she just felt like making some dumplings. Hehe!