This bowl of Thai kway teow soup is to die for. I was actually not expecting it to turn out to be anything special or fantastic, just a simple, homecooked pot of stock with kway teow, that’s all. But when I saw how the bowls were emptied out at the dining table very quickly, I was secretly pleased. This simple bowl of noodles proved to be much more than it looks to be.
Finding this book at a favourite bookshop of mine in New Bahru was a coincidence. We were browsing at the bookshop after a lunch one weekend afternoon. My husband was the one who pointed this book out to me. He was already familiar with Humphreys’ witty columns in the local papers and suggested I’d enjoy his sense of humour as well. So I thought I’ll give it a try.
I wanted to try jogging in some nice places for the fun of it.
It has been some time since I last jogged at Pandan Reservoir. I remember I was busy preparing for the logistical arrangements in preparation for the Angkor Wat exhibition back in 2018 and decided to do a jog around the Pandan Reservoir. My logistics agent was calling me up every so often to update me about work as I reached the halfway mark of the reservoir, which was quite fun because she didn’t realise that I was in the middle of nowhere when she called, and I could continue to jog my stress out after the call because the reservoir was so big.
Top: view of the skyline from the starting point of the reservoir
This is a half Italian dish cooked using arborio rice and similar methods to cooking a dish of risotto. Except that I used less stock and time to cook the rice this time, but I think the result was great nonetheless. There’s only mushroom in the rice, so it’s definitely for those of you who love mushrooms, otherwise, you can consider adding other types of mushroom, or other ingredients, such as anchovies, ham, hot dog or tomatoes, but depending on which one you use, will have to be added at a later stage. And don’t forget the butter at the end – that’s the magic formula that brings everything together before the plating!
I was always curious about this particular block which is located right opposite my in-law’s place. It’s supposedly a block with a very long, slightly curved, corridor, so long that it makes for the block with the longest corridor in Singapore.