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Monday, January 14, 2008

This entry shall be entirely on food! And let me tell u what a difference lunch and dinner makes. Between eating out and dining in. Gosh... they're certainly poles apart! Haha. Read on and u'd get what i'm trying to say.

Lunch was at joo chiat again. Great place if u wanna tuck into some decent fare, especially since it's pretty near katong. So if nothing at joo chiat catches ur eye, or rather, tummy, u can just drive down to katong. And if all else fails, good old bedok will b great too! haha. Mum wanted to try the famous wonton noodles and so we did.

Yup! This is the stall highly recommended by some tv food programme. Is it really tt 'hao chi'? There was a really long q when we were there and being like any other typical singaporean, we joined in the line. Haha

It was a really long wait for our noodles to be served. So while waiting, we bullshitted with one another until we got kinda cranky. Hahaha

My crazily hungry mummy! Gosh.. where r ur eyes?

After about 20 mins of waiting, our long awaited noodles were finally served! Yeah!

That's mummy in her noodle-action. That bowl ought to be hers. I mean... just check out the amount of chilli in that bowl.

And this bowl is mine! Conveniently dumped all my chilli to mummy. Noodles here were served with chilli in ur spoons tt are filled to its brim. There's also a free flow of other types of chillis and soup too. Self service!

After trying out their noodles, it really beats me why it's famous though. To me, it tasted just alright. Pretty normal actually. To their fans... sorry dudes! No offense taken alright! ;)

Oh yeah... we ordered chinese rojak too. Blame it on our itchy mouths while waiting for our noodles! But well, it's certainly not something any of us would regret about! It really tasted very good! *drools*

Couldn't catch a good shot of the rojak store from where i was sitting. This was the best tt I cld get. It's called "yi ding xiang"! And yeah! It's really really good! Trust me! Haha... as for the guy on the left... sorry! It ain't my fault tt u chose to stone there just when i snapped.

Here goes! Yummy rojak! It doesn't look as good as it tastes though. But can u imagine? Crispy + crunchy rojak even though it's filled with those rojak paste?! wow!

Sab all ready to attack the rojak

Greedy me!

So that was lunch. Sounds good? Perhaps u cld pop in if u happen to be just round the corner or something. Haha. Now... as for dinner... we had home cooked food. And it was a disaster. HAHAHA... what happened u say? The kids came over as usual and ryan was sick. He wanted some attention from ONLY my mom cos she's good at storytelling him to sleep. Sab and TJ were tending to Ilyssa. Serene and Ben were out at the gym and that leaves me to settle dinner. *gasp* ME!? I can't even handle buying daogeis! I know nuts about cooking! Totally inexperienced! I don't even know how to cook rice can u believe it? Can't we just buy from outside? No... they want home cooked food. DARN! Mum gave instructions from the living room as I created a mess in the kitchen. Gosh it was a nightmare. First up, it was CHICKEN WAR/OPERATION!!!! *faints*

Mum said to cut up the chicken first. I struggled with the knife first. But boy... tt chicken meat was tough as hell. I took more than 1/2 hr chopping up the top 1/2 but the chicken was still not entirely chopped into half cos now it opened up like a sheet of crap. And guess what? Look at the chicken feet. I destroyed it. It's claws and feet are like totally detached. I butchered it. Hahaha...

there there! look at the chicken feet. Totally destroyed! After struggling for soooo long with that chicken, i figured perhaps the knife was useless. Let's try the scissors. Hopefully things will get better.

And YAY! The scissors worked! But as usual, look at the horribly disfigured chicken feet. Great. After cutting it into 1/2, I happily told mum.. ok! It's in 1/2 already. Now what? And she said... cut into smaller pieces. I almost wanted to collapse. So back to the sickening chicken I went. And chicken war continued for a couple of mins more.

Mum came in to inspect and she saw the mess of the chicken I created. She laughed like a mad woman as expected and she told Ryan.. "Look! Yi yi killed the chicken. Can I call the police?" And ryan actually bothered to reply her with his "nono!-s". I was like (!*@)!(*@()!* !!! hahaha...Anyways, mum said we shld make chicken soup instead since that's one good way to hide such a horribly butchered chicken. Actually, during the chicken war itself, Sab came in to offer assistance cos by then, she'd already lulled Ilyssa to sleep. And we tried ripping the chicken apart with us each holding one 1/2 of the chicken. But the sickening chicken refused to budge. Imagine how exasperated we were with tt. Thank gdness for the scissors i tell ya! haha

That wasn't all. There was fish too. *faints* And this was what I did. I just dumped everything into one pot to heat up. And I trashed in a whole load of ginger. HAHAHA... Think it looks worse than crap.

There! Crap fish just before it's left to be cooked. New dish! Haha. Talking abt fish, it reminds me of gl teaching me how to choose good fish. Never in my life did I know there was so much to look out for in choosing fish.

Oh. And there's veg to settle too? Mum told me to fry the veg. But Ifreaked out cos I washed the veg and dumped it into the frying pan. Then everything started splattering. !!!!!!!! In the end I dumped everything into one pot to boil for god knows how long... veg, carrots, salt etc... Was just praying hard tt steamboat techniques could be put to some use.

Can't slice the carrots properly so it looked so damn thick. And Look at tt... doesn't it just remind u of cny? Think: Lo hei?! HAHAHA.. I'm hopeless man!

The final outcome after all that kitchen warfare. See... there's leftovers. HAHAHA... but I guess all of them were either nice or too hungry cos none of them complained and ate normally. We shall see if any of them gets food poisoning. Hahaha.. CHOY!

So... now i know what it means by panic attack. Haha.. when ur left to ur own devices, u literally "anyhow whack". hahaha... Told bubu while i was at war but all i got was news of some idiot laughing. Damn it! Hahahah! Don't let me experience this again! At least let me be guided with some demo ok! Alright... i've had enough of reporting abt my embarrassment. hahaha... Adios! Off to bed I go! Niteee!

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