Saturday, September 09, 2006

weekend food finds

On Friday night Sandy and I went in search of Vietnamese food. Joo Chiat Road has recently been plagued (or blessed, depending on your POV) by illegal Vietnamese 'night butterflies' so that seemed as good a place as any to start. Sure enough, there were half a dozen Vietnamese restaurants and street stalls catering to the girls (and their customers). We settled on a place with no obvious English name then sat at a table on the street and ogled the miniskirts walking past (well, I did) while everybody else ogled us. The food was pretty good but I think we ordered the wrong dishes - we ignored the recommendations of the Vietnamese staff and decided we knew best! In the end we chose a plate of prawns (about thirty!) steamed in beer; a rather sweet beef salad with banana hearts, chillies and peanuts; and squid stirfried with celery and spring onion. Sandy also had a Vietnamese beef noodle soup, and a thick Vietnamese coffee.



On Saturday night, after playing tennis, we walked to Island Creamery (we deserved an ice cream!), our favourite ice cream parlour, where I stupidly tried kung pao cashew ice cream ... an arse-burning (to borrow an expression from Sri) ice cream containing dried chilli flakes. One small scoop would make an excellent dinner party conversation piece. A whole tub was just ... well, arse burning.



For Sunday lunch, after a quick walk around Labrador Park, we decided to try Lim Seng Lee Duck Rice House on South Buona Vista Rd in Pasir Panjang Village. Due to some miscomunication with the waiter, we procured two gross-looking duck tongues.



Needless to say, Sandy gobbled down both duck tongues. Sandy giving tongue ...

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