let's have some dessert, today!

This is the most common dessert you can see in Singapore food courts during week-ends: it's called Kacang, or sometimes ABC.


It's actually an "ice-mountain", topped with pink, green and yellow syrups.
Each serving also features some sweet beans & corn kernel.
First time we had it, it was a waiter's mistake.
Second time, it was a joke: we wanted some friends to experience it!
I think I'm not going to order it a third time...

Christmas in the tropics!

24 december dinner (Dim Sum in Chinatown) ...

...and Christmas lunch (Black Pepper Crab @ Eastcost Seafood Centre)

my christmas present

A really interesting book...


even if the images look a bit "old", it's a treasure, that explains you everything: from main ingredients to spices, condiments and sauces, from celebrations specialties to street food, from cooking utensils to chinese nutritional theories!!

One week on G&G's plates!

Saturday

Tasting a colorful dragon fruit


Fried finger food


Dining @ Kolo Mee, Chinatown

One week on G&G's plates!

Friday

Loooots of dumplings!


Sugarcane Juice in the afternoon


Pizza! (half Hawaian - half curry chicken and diced tomatoes... I can't believe it!!)

One week on G&G's plates!

Thursday

Late breakfast... we are on holidays!


Wine chicken on a hotplate...

...& dumplings


Life & Living Workshop - Food & Culture Series @ National Museum of Singapore:
today's event was titled All Wrapped Up: Southeast Asian Techniques of wrapping food with leaves

One week on G&G's plates!

Wednesday

Satay set...


... & popiah


Dim Sum Dinner

One week on G&G's plates!

Tuesday

Spicy laksa: coconut milk, veggies, hard boiled egg, spices&herbs, served with white steamed rice


Deep-fried dinner: fried samosa & spring rolls

One week on G&G's plates!

Monday

Fried carrot cake for lunch


Green Nonya kuehs, Peranakan sweets made of glutinous rice & coconut


Chicken Ba Pao at home, for dinner...
we have no proper steamer, that's the best we could think up to cook them!

One week on G&G's plates!

Sunday

Rich breakfast @ Killiney Kopitiam


QQ rice on the go (five ingredients of your choice, inside a rice ball...!)


Sushi Buffet & mochi @ Sakae sushi

...food diary!

...I haven't been writing here for a while... Don't think I was lazy!


I've been working on my "food diary project", taking pictures of everything I ate, during one week...

I'll show you some of the results, picking up the most interesting ones, day by day!

Chinese black tea...

...in a not-very-usual package!

Thai food

Hi! We are back from an amazing ten-days holidays in Thailand!

We learned a lot about Thai cuisine: most of the dishes mix five fundamental flavours (hot/spicy, salty, sour, sweet and bitter).
A perfect balance is guaranteed by the local ingredients, such as coconut milk and turmeric (especially in the southern part of the country), lime juice (in northeastern dishes).
Nam pla (น้ำปลา), a very aromatic and strong tasting fish sauce, is consumed even for breakfast!
Thai cuisine also features a rhizome called galangal, shallots, tamarind and plenty of crushed chili peppers.
Last but not least, fragrant herbs, such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves and basil are frequently used, and they're fresh instead than dried, so they beautifully garnish your plate!

But I can tell for sure that the main ingredient is rice... the most common thai term for "eat" is "kin khao", that's to say: "consume rice"...

We had these assorted noodles and rice dishes in some restaurants in BKK and Phuket Island...

...but cheaper eateries and food stalls can be found everywhere!

We saw a number of food vendors by the schools: lots of kids buy something to eat before going back home.
We found out later that it's a sort of national eating habit!
Grown-ups seem to consume on the streets their nutritious breakfasts, mid-morning snacks, quick lunches, afternoon meals, spicy dinner and after-eights... plus other savoury stuff or fruits in the meantime!

Take a look at the following pictures... you'll probably find something you don't consider edible... (I didn't have the insect, neither!)

Of course, all kinds beverages are available: they frequently use a trasparent carrier to take away their drinks (both hot and cold ones), but sometimes they just help themselves with young coconut milk just cutting the top of the fruit and drinking the juice into it!

Our next and last stop is in a market by the river: sorry, it's not the floating market, but I think it was incredible anyway!
Bangkok is somewhere well worth a visit!