Best Lunch Ever: At Home

Best. Meal. Ever. Clockwise from top: Papa Chow Prawns, Lum Yee Kow Yok, Sambal Kangkung

Freshly-gravied, steamed pre-fried yam and pork cooked with fermented bean paste. Aboslute perfection. Supreme props to Mama Chow.

Sambal kangkung, plentiful dried shrimps yum yum yum yum


Yam steamed to near-distintegration, yam is a heaven-sent root, Mama Chow is a heaven-sent champion.

Batu Lanchang Pasar #2

Two-tone Mama Chow selecting veges

The produce at this pasar just looks beautiful, beautifully arranged, beautifully grown, beautifully fresh. Pandan, you, my favorite leaf, you.

Purchase of Yam - the purpose of this pasar trip, was to acquire the ingredients to make the longed-for and as-yet untasted Lum Yee Kow Yok pork/yam dish for the brattish majesty that is me. On top of caring for post-natal Mag, Ollie and the entire family, poor Mama Chow has been guilt-tripped into making this laborious dish for Big Brat. Sam Hap, you could have spared us all this! And also, why doesn't anyone else in this town make this dish? We called about 20 cantonese restaurants. Oh yea, it's tres laborious. That might have to do with it. Thanks mom.

Pomfret for Post-Natal Fish. She eats this almost every meal with a heap of fried ginger strips.

More Fish. Possibly not Post-natal Friendly.

Lunch at New World, Swatow Lane

Dericious Yam Cake topped with dried shrimps and spring onion. So good I kept eating despite Mama Chow's protests because my thumb was still gross.
Chee Cheong Fun - ok but it doesn't quite compare to my favorite Ah Pek at Pulau Tikus pasar.
Close-up: this was so good, I think about a thousand shrimps died for this garnish.
Chai Koay - I didn't manage to try this, these dumplings don't usually float my boat, they were all finished up which is a good sign considering our excessiveness. The thing with chai koay is that I see them as an oversized dim sum variation, I don't exactly understand the size.
Bak Chang - glutinous rice dumpling
I thought this was good, extremely lardy but Mama Chow tells me that it's a necessary evil.