pho pho pho pho

i decided to cook tonight for iftar. i've been craving for some pho for quite some time, and finally decided to just cook it myself.

it went ok- not enough salt though, so it was a tad bit tasteless. I mean its quite tough to cook while ur fasting and ur not able to taste the food. anyway, obviously it wasn't going to be as good as the amazing bowl of pho that Pham took me to in Hanoi. But i was still happy with it!

kudos to my mom who's always cooking fabulous dishes even during fasting month!

i also made some spring-rolls.

noone really enjoyed it thought- the pho. mostly cos my folks are typically malay with typically malay tastebuds. Pho is just too soupy and not spicy enough for them. But they said it was good anyways.

but noone thanked me though! =(

iftar out

i had meant to bring some visitors who were here in Singapore from india to geylang to see the hari raya bazaar. this was after they complained that the didn't have anywhere interesting to go. so i decided to give up my thursday to bring them. but when i told them about the plans tonight, as in where to meet etc, they told me, 'sorry but we've decided to go to Sentosa instead'.

wtf.

yeesh. ah well, what to do? so instead of having a quick iftar (break fast) with the I-man...we had a long leisurely iftar out. since we were near work, and was really near a favourite old haunt of mine from uni days, we headed towards west coast.

oh my what a flood of memories came rushing back...those days in uni, when i use to drive out to this particular hawker centre to buy dinner for everyone studying late...usually with Mus if i was from school...and once i went with my honours year click. it was a long time since i had my favourite black pepper chicken rice.



i don't know why i haven't been back there since, cos it's really chock-filled with muslim food stalls. me and I-man also had some butter prawns (which are his fav) which weren't half bad! i also treated myself to a luscious cup of teh halia. Yum!






well things turned out well in the end. =)