Coconut and Mee Pok

This coconut is too "old" and the meat is thick and tough. The coconut water didn't taste good and so I did not finished it ($3).
The mee pok was delicious and it came from my favorite hawker stall near Jalan Kayu. For $3.50, it was a bargain.

A land flowing with milk and honey

God's word is true and eternal and it cannot fail. The above video is a testimony of his word.
In Exodus 3:17, God told the children of Israel:
"And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey".

Assam Pedas for dinner

This dish is sting ray in assam pedas gravy. I've never tasted a better one than this, which is cooked by my talented wife. We bought the ray from Giant Super Market and it was fresh.

Woman gave birth on the street

Duck's meat to maintain body temperature

We ordered half roasted duck and other dishes with porridge for lunch. The duck wasn't as good as we had a week ago. It was rather dry but nevertheless, we need duck's red meat to maintain our ideal body temperature of 36.5 C. The porridge dishes were so so too. 

Beautiful Sunday

Dinner with ex colleagues @ 83 Sea Food Restaurant

Last night, I had a 10 course dinner with my former ground staff colleagues. They were from various departments. Most are now retired. We meet quite regularly for a drink, meal and chit chat. Last night's dinner was a treat from "G". 

The kway chup and Tampines Court story

Had this trotter and kway chup (kc) yesterday at Tampinese St 11. The kc lady knows us and without saying anything, she dished out the above for us. The cost came up to $18 which is reasonable because the food was absolutely nice.
Situated next to this kc coffee shop is Tampines Court. I had a friend who used to live here but he sold his unit off about 3 years ago at $700,000. Had he stay put, he could easily get $1.7 million for his unit. The place is up for en bloc collective sale and a company has put in a bid price of $970 million. What a shame because my friend could have made $1 million more. Instead, he invested in a property in Johore which is now losing in value.

Grab promotion discount

Today I had my first ride with private hire Grab. I was automatically given a discount of $4 on my $7.50 ride. I paid $3.50 when I arrived at my destination. The $4 discount is applicable for this whole week up to a maximum of 20 rides.
I used to ride on Uber all the time and was not given any discount at all. Looks like from now onwards, I would ride on Grab!

Making our own yam cake

We tried making our own yam cake or "orh kueh" as they call it in Teochew. This is our first attempt at making the yam cake. It may not look nice but honestly speaking, it tasted better than all the yam cakes I have eaten from the hawkers' stalls. We missed out the sliced red chilli and spring onions but it still tasted very good. It's good because we put in a lot of diced yam into the cake. The ones we ate at the hawkers' stalls contained more flour and just small pieces of yam.

Ciabatta, papaya salad and fried chicken

Today, we had the papaya salad and fried chicken for lunch. On the right second row is the ciabatta sandwich which we had for breakfast. For the salad, the papaya must be unripened (top right pic).