Okay, its middle of the night,
im thinking about
1. Pandas
2. Dietary Habits
3. Lai Wah Restaurant's chicken
4. Dorothy Ng's cookbooks
So here goes,
Pandas are damn picky. I kind of feel that they deserve
to die for being so picky about their food, and only wanting
to eat YOUNG bamboo shoots. This eventually led me to
wonder the following, we humans can adapt our diet. We
choose to eat meat, go vegetarian or eat vegetarianish
because its healthier/cheaper/more available through
sustenance farming. As it may be difficult for a vegetarian
to adapt to a diet of meat (one particular herbivore went
to Yunnan and fell sick when some essence of meat got
into his food), I wouldn't make the panda eat meat, But
can't I at least teach it to eat or even like to eat some
other more easily available vegetable ?
This afternoon, we celebrated my Grandma's birthday.
We went to Lai Wah Restaurant, the food was pretty good.
I especially liked the chicken (though I'd prepare it with
ginger if I made it). And the food there seems to me to be
some semblance of the first instance of a chinese restaurant
trying to go western. Asian food is usually better IMO.
As for the cookbooks, they are by a Singaporean, and sold
out, in the 1980s. If I'm not wrong they document
perenakan food. Apparently the writer (deceased btw)
did a cooking show for SBC (before it became Mediacorp/
TCS). And if you want to find the books, I think the only
available ones are reference books in the NLB.
And, I'm hungry.
