Ban Mian

Noodles with minced pork, cabbage, bok choy (I think), and tiny dried fish in a simple broth.

This couldn't really be more satisfying. The noodles are firm, chewy and filling. The cabbage is sweet. Minced pork bits are good dipped in red chili on the side. Dried fish is salty and a little chewy.

3.50 SGD

Jen's First Gumbo

Jen made some kick ass chicken and sausage gumbo tonight.  She got everything right at the beginning somehow... we didn't have to re-season it at all when it was done.

One thing we have a hard time getting in Singapore is green bell peppers, so she had to use red.  I thought it might make things too sweet, but it turned out really nice, and the red looks good too.

Mixed Rice

There are these "mixed rice" counters at most Singapore hawker markets
or food courts. They'll have about 15 or 20 choices of things to go
on a plate of rice. This was pork belly, squash, and greens for $3.50
SGD

Porridge. 1st Meal in '09

Garlic shrimp

At Sin Huat Eating House. An insane amount of garlic on giant
shrimp. Good, but 1/10th that much garlic would do the job. Chili
sauce was nice. ( these guys are famous for their crab bee hoon, and
I think that's the only thing you should go there for )

Nacho Thought: All on one chip

Make your nacho all on one big round chip and then cut it into nacho
wedges.

Big piles of chips with random crap on top -- yeah, they're nachos,
but it's the TGIFridays way to do it.

Compose your nacho.

Peeps & Big Beak

We now have a pair of chickens.

Peeps. She came to us as an egg in June. Jen built a homemade incubator and hatched her. She spent her first couple of weeks indoors in the incubator until she was ready to go outside. Then she was on our back porch. We'd let her out to roam around and pick bugs out of the plants (she like to eat the plants, too). We moved her a few weeks ago to our middle atrium outside the bathroom. She seemed like she needed a buddy.

Big-Beak O'Reilly. He came to us a few days ago, already several weeks old. He's a feisty bastard - a real twerp - and if you move too quickly towards him, he'll peck your stupid hand. He tries to crow, but it doesn't really work yet with his fledgling pipes. I'm sure he'll be waking us up soon.