Atlast after almost an year in Singapore, I have started discovering my tourist side of personality.And there is I think only one person (amongst the ones i know) in the whole cohort who believes in Epicurean Philosophy of life. Usman Ashfaq was the first one to agree at just the wink of eye to my plan of trying out all the hawker centers in Singapore. So we decided to start off by treating our taste buds at Esplanade Hawker center.
Getting off the MRT at City Hall , we bid good bye to Vikas and Ravi who were keen on some vegetarian stuff from Little India(mind you.. India is much better than Little version). I think it was the first time when me and Usman had gone to Esplanade and we were amazed at the beautiful sight of CBD which was embellished by Fullerton Hotel`s brightly lit building. After having a stroll across the bay we entered the hawker center. The first thing we noticed people having some thing from clay pot, we decided to try that. One thing which is good to hang-out with Usman is that he is not at all a difficult person to convince anything about. He would always say yes for non-veg food at any time of the day. So I wanted to have the mix of Satay`s and the Clay pot thing, and the nest minute we were right in front of the Satay Shop. Another thing good about Usman is that he always orders a lot of food. So we ordered 20 Satay Sticks with a mix of chicken and beef. By the time the order would be ready we went to check out the clay pot thing. and We found that indeed it was a very popular thing. As the lady of the shop named "Happy Pot" explained, the dish is prepared just on the table in front of you (sorry not like famous Japanese restaurant Benihana of Tokyo). The mechanism of preparing is that there is a pot of clay (or Handi in Hindi) which contains soup. The soup can be of your choice like Tom Yam, Chicken broth etc etc. The pot is fired by a small fire arrangement at its bottom (like a traditional angithi used in North India). You are served with marinated meat, sea food and vegetables of your choice with addition of rice and noodles. We ordered for one Non-Veg set (just 10 SGD) and spicy Tom Yam Soup. We put the meat in the boiling hot soup and it was ready on 3-4 minutes, meanwhile enjoyed Satay in the backdrop of Merlion park. The lady at the shop was so cute that she would come everytime to us and help us out with some exciting tips to eat good Thai food. She also told that the soup helps in burning fat.........:) I think if this happens then this is the best way to reduce weight.
So all in all a very good Sunday evening spent and a good experience having Thai food. Now I am waiting for the next Sunday to go to another food court of the world`s food capital- Singapore. By the time I was writing this blog Amarpal has also got convinced with the idea of trying our foodie adventures. So lets see how far we go in tasting what Singapore has to offer.
Getting off the MRT at City Hall , we bid good bye to Vikas and Ravi who were keen on some vegetarian stuff from Little India(mind you.. India is much better than Little version). I think it was the first time when me and Usman had gone to Esplanade and we were amazed at the beautiful sight of CBD which was embellished by Fullerton Hotel`s brightly lit building. After having a stroll across the bay we entered the hawker center. The first thing we noticed people having some thing from clay pot, we decided to try that. One thing which is good to hang-out with Usman is that he is not at all a difficult person to convince anything about. He would always say yes for non-veg food at any time of the day. So I wanted to have the mix of Satay`s and the Clay pot thing, and the nest minute we were right in front of the Satay Shop. Another thing good about Usman is that he always orders a lot of food. So we ordered 20 Satay Sticks with a mix of chicken and beef. By the time the order would be ready we went to check out the clay pot thing. and We found that indeed it was a very popular thing. As the lady of the shop named "Happy Pot" explained, the dish is prepared just on the table in front of you (sorry not like famous Japanese restaurant Benihana of Tokyo). The mechanism of preparing is that there is a pot of clay (or Handi in Hindi) which contains soup. The soup can be of your choice like Tom Yam, Chicken broth etc etc. The pot is fired by a small fire arrangement at its bottom (like a traditional angithi used in North India). You are served with marinated meat, sea food and vegetables of your choice with addition of rice and noodles. We ordered for one Non-Veg set (just 10 SGD) and spicy Tom Yam Soup. We put the meat in the boiling hot soup and it was ready on 3-4 minutes, meanwhile enjoyed Satay in the backdrop of Merlion park. The lady at the shop was so cute that she would come everytime to us and help us out with some exciting tips to eat good Thai food. She also told that the soup helps in burning fat.........:) I think if this happens then this is the best way to reduce weight.
So all in all a very good Sunday evening spent and a good experience having Thai food. Now I am waiting for the next Sunday to go to another food court of the world`s food capital- Singapore. By the time I was writing this blog Amarpal has also got convinced with the idea of trying our foodie adventures. So lets see how far we go in tasting what Singapore has to offer.
6 comments:
Bai jee writer ban gayee!!
Sorabh
Nice..you too bitten by blog bug.
Yeh karrai hai tu
Hey Simar...you know what..if only you could have decided on some vegetarian option I would have joined you at Esplanade...but then....In the End...Kya Karraiii......What About the Desserts Man..u missed them????ahahhaah lol..Cheers!!!
another one bitten by the blogging bug!!
hey man.. good to start with.. keep on trying ur taste buds... rock s'pore.
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