The Melting Pot

The melting pot is a metaphor for the way in which homogeneous societies develop, in which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures, races and religions) are combined so as to develop a multi-ethnic society. In this post , though, the melting pot is Me, or rather to be more specific , its my tummy!

The last week had been yummy-licious where my palate is concerned. I had a wonderful combination of different food. Our multi racial country has provided me with a wide array of friends from every race , so i had the pleasure of savouring all the delicious food from each culture.

Being Chinese but a terrible cook, i always look forward to eat-outs! And when i was invited to a Chinese dinner by some friends , i was delighted. It was just a simple dinner , but the company was good and the food , though simple, was drool worthy! I think i ate like i was a starved refugee but then again i just got out from my gym ( which is alot like a boot camp!! Phew!) Steamed la-la, fried tofu with minced meat , fried long beans ( the shorter lean ones!) and fried rice were served and i gobbled all that down. My friends seemed to eat like birds , maybe it was cuz they saw how dangerous i looked and were afraid to venture into the food for fear that i might fork them with my utensils!!! Hehehehehe, sorry ah??? Greedy me! But thanks for the dinner , G! U know who u are :)

2 days after that face stuffing , i went for an open house ~ malay style!! Its the Raya open house and we sat on the floor around the mats. The food was totally malay in nature and i loved it all!!! The beef rendang was my fave and i had 3 helpings! Once again , pardon the PIG! The fried noodles , wahhhhh, very unusual .... with a strong aroma of serai (lemon grass) . MMMMMMM, love it! i asked for the recipe and even "tapow" that home! The malay cookies look too good to be destroyed in my mouth but pigs don't usually appreciate art! So gobble gobble! The curry puffs were to die for , and the girl who brought that said that her mum makes those to sell. So i know where to order divine curry puffs from now on .... and cheap too! ( 40 sen FYI) . Oh and one more thing that i cannot omit from this post ~ the home made cakes!!! WAHHHHH, the fruit cake ( most definitely steamed cuz it was so moist and succulent! ~ the fruits lah i mean , how can cakes be succulent!) I am the food expert u know! :P And then the kek batik , wow... soft but not too sweet with the sinfully rich layers of chocolate! AMBOIIIIII! ( i think i have to wear a bib now! ) Moahs to the GYM friends!

Another 2 days later, it was time for home made Indian food! AYOYO, ah-mama!!! One of my friends is married to an Indian and even tho she is Chinese , her cooking skills puts my other Indian friends to shame! Her fish curry was out of this world! We finished the whole pot of fish curry and one of us even sucked dry the fish head , spitting out all the tiny bones. Well , at least the fish died for a good cause!!!! The mutton curry was indescribable and the good thing was 2 of our friends were fussy eaters and they don't like the smell of mutton! SMELL , what smell!!! its all aroma la!!! BOD! Hehehehehe, less men more share, so its yayyyyyyyyyyy!! The rest of the food were some pumpkin chutney , this is the first time i had that , and i thought it was potatoes . I am not a pumpkin lover ~ i thought pumpkins were only for Halloween carvings!!! And there was the dhall curry , and fried veggies. Then came cookie time, and my sweet tooth never refuses these. The corn flakes/cocoa pop cookies were good but my fave was the choc almond cookies. The ladies were watching their weight so i "hantam" their share!!! Hey, come Deepavali , we are invited over there again :) Thank u, P!!!

Then yesterday night, ooooooooooo, my line dance student handed me a nice huge container and in it was scrumptious Apple crumble! I must have died and gone to heaven :) I ate half of it , topped with vanilla ice cream for supper , and finished the rest for breakfast this morning. Sigh, i am now watching my weight so apple crumble was WITHOUT ice cream this morning! HAHAHAHAHA! Hey, every calorie counts , ok???? wink wink! KONON!! .... Specially for Betty: A million thanks to Miss Sarawak!

E-lated tummy!