Gluttony

These past two weeks have been gluttonous weeks. We were eating all the high calorie and cholesterol food - I think it was excessive, but excellent!!

The eating binge started on 21 September when we went to this place in Casuarina Road called Paris to have salted egg yolk crab. Paris is along the same row as that crispy roti prata place, at the other end of the block next to a Japanese restaurant. We went there with friends R & K with their son Luke for their wedding anniversary dinner. The other time we had a memorable dinner with R & K was on 11 September 2001 (yes 9/11) at Village Wok in Geylang, just before they got married and we were talking about wedding preparations. We went home from dinner glued to the telly, incredulous at the happenings appearing on the screen.

The next round of gluttony took place two nights later at Ah Yat at Turf City. It was my sister's son's birthday. The young 7 year old could tell his parents: I want to go to Ah Yat because I like the noodles. Since this is an only child, his parents agreed and off we went to Ah Yat to have another round of salted egg yolk crab. I would say that the Paris preparation of the dish was tastier and the crabs were meatier. Nevertheless, we still enjoyed the crabs.

Then on Saturday, I had to go to church for worship practice. Whilst there, our friends who live in Pasir Ris spotted HH on the MSN messenger and the Char-bor asked as we wanted to have dinner with her and Boy-boy. We agreed since we were hungry and they said to go to somewhere in Pasir Ris where they said that the salted egg yolk crab was good. We went to this coffee shop near Pentecost Methodist Church and ordered dinner of sambal sweet potato leaves, har cheong kai, foo yong egg and salted egg yolk crab!! The dinner was good, the company congenial and we enjoyed ourselves at the windy corner of the coffee shop. However we thought the crab was expensive for what it was because it wasn't as large as what we had at Paris and the taste not as fragant as Ah Yat's although we ate with gusto.

Then we went to this same coffee shop on Wednesday for dinner because we were up in church and had to get to the airport and we were hungry and we took V there for dinner. We ate exactly the same things.

We also discovered Salmon Belly soup at Sushi Tei at Serangoon Road on Friday. We were wondering what to eat and decided that Sushi Tei was the place to head for as it was on the way home, afforded quick food (from the conveyor belt), air-condioned premises and a decent price (meaning not too expensive!!). On the conveyor, I spotted the Salmon Belly soup and decided to try a bowl - on special offer at $6 instead of $8 - and anything at a discount could convince me to try it once. Wow! It was excellent soup - slices of salmon belly in a rich salmon miso broth with tofu cubes, enoki mushrooms, some Japanese cabbage and a few glass noodle strands. I am not a soup person but I slurped it up.

Then on Tuesday night, I felt like that Salmon Belly Soup again so HH and I headed there. This time I took a photograph of our soup and sent it to my glutton friend John to entice him. There was teaser captions of yummy soup, then more teasers of "enoki mushrooms and tofu" and "want some?" to bait him. We went home happy from a satifying meal.

We were in Orchard Road last night and when the topic of DINNER came up, we headed off to Sushi Tei at Paragon. We waited ages for a table, became really famished and ended up over-ordering and over-eating. The walk along part of Orchard Road to catch a bus to the Goo did us some good as exercise.

I am beginning to feel the effects of such gluttony and need to cut back on the scrumptious and decadent meals that we had in the past 2 or 3 weeks.

I am sure we live to eat and not the other way around.

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