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“Are you coming home for dinner today?” Mummy-dearest asked.

“Yes Mummy”, said I.

Nevermind that she had ALREADY asked me 13 times when I was in the shower, and another 5 times, AFTER I got into the car, and was backing out the driveway….

That was at something o’clock in the morning.

Just an hour ago, at about 6pm, she calls me ..

“Are you coming home for dinner today?”

“Yes Mummy”

“Oh….” Slightly disappointed. For my not coming home for dinner meant that she had an excuse not to cook….. which really explains why she asks me so many times a day…. (and this only happens when I answer in the affirmative…..) I guess she just hopes that if she asked me often enough, I’d change my mind after the 36^th time….

I stuck to my guns today….so she continued….

“Ok then. You want your asparagus (like I stuck a Booker flag on them and claimed them earlier…. Which I didn’t, by the way)… with pacific clams or anything else?”

“hmm… what else do you have to cook with MY asparagus?”

“…….nothing……..”

You gotta grin.

I really, really love my Mummy sometimes.

The internet’s down this morning.

Which only means one thing.

I have no purpose to be in the office today. *WAIL*

And so, searching deep within the depths of this fluffy Wednesday, for that silver lining, it hit me *ting-ting* with profoundest clarity. Today, I, Booker, shall blog!!!!!

And as with all of my many many blog entries, I sift through the 3 thoughts in my head and take the necessary half hour per thought it takes to actually make any sense of any of them.

Food?!!?!

Shoes?!!!??!

Food?!!!?!?!!

Tough choice, for ANYONE I know…..

Okay, so here it is. Today’s blog entry.

It shall be about….. my favouritest food in the whole wide world!!!!!! Note : Does buffet in general count???!?! Anyways, back to the mains….

My favourtiest food in the whole wide world, is actually a pretty simple dish ….. “Kway Teow Tar – pang chee n’ng” (Hokkien speak for “Dry Kway Teow – with raw egg”. Whilst yes, you can find it in ANY Chinese makan place, only in my Favouritest Restaurant in the Whole Wide World does the Chef (not cook, nay, for anyone who whips up a dish so perfect deserves the reverence of being called “Chef”) FLOOD them kway teows in enough oil to power a small country, and only in my Favouritest Restaurant in the Whole Wide World does the Chef get each and every strand of them oily kway teows COATED with the flavour of lard………. Yummmmmmm *eyes closed in bliss*… that’s right… it’s not just any oil that makes up the oily soup, the Chef uses pork lard oil…. Where chunks and chunks of pork lard are left to simmer over a low heat, cajoling the flavoury yummy oily juices from it, leaving only crispy crunchy nuggets of porky goodness my family folk refer to as “Krock-Krick” – for the sound it makes when you bite into them (we are inventive, I know….)

And dear dear friends, salmo-what the-nell-are you talking about???? The raw egg that gets cracked into the well created from the piping hot oily krock-krick laden kway teow, freshly dished from the wok gives the kway teow dish an overall healthy glow once everyone at the table, waiting anxiously chopsticks at ready, digs in and buries the raw egg into the smooth porky flavoury kway teow.

This dish, eaten with generous amounts of fresh garlic and cili padi, is absolutely and without a doubt, the BESTEST, MY FAVOURITEST FOOD IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmmm…… I wonder if I can swap Kway Teow Tar – Pang Chi N’ng for cheese when dieting the Emily way……..*ponders*