Meme: Childhood Food Memories

carrying on the meme baton from Rantings From A Solitary Reverie

Can't really say if I have lots of fond food memories, was a pretty picky eater as a kid, still a bit picky now hahaha, but I do have a few places that I remembered we used to always go to so I'll just give you like the top 5.

The first food memory would be this place over at Geylang (sort of towards Kallang) where you would get this really great tasting chicken rice! If you planned on going there for dinner you had to make sure you went early (especially on the weekends) because by about 7.30 - 8 pm they would have sold out all of their chickens and they guys would normally make like 20 - 30 chickens! It was a family run store in a little hawker centre. The hawker centre is still there but not sure about the shop.

The second food memory would be probably have to be the restaurant at the old Holiday Inn along Scotts Road called The Baron's Table. The hotel is now called Royal Plaza on Scotts and The Baron's Table is no longer there. We used to always go there on special occasions like say my mom's birthday or visitors from out of town. I remember I always order the dover sole (deboned please - told you I was picky) and the waiters used to always like topping up your water glass. You could tell them not to or that you were fine but as soon as you looked the other way they'd sneak up on you and refill your glass - like it was a competition or something lol.

My third food memory would have to be prawn mee soup at the hawker centre over at Margaret Drive. When ever we went over to my maternal grandparents' place (who were Cantonese and Hokkien), we would nearly always stop off at that hawker centre for lunch. I think I only ever ordered 3 types of food from 3 different shops in that whole hawker centre lol, one would be yu cha kuay (I think's how you spell it), nonya and malay kueh such as kueh lapis (loved to peel off the different coloured layers and eat them one by one) and the prawn mee soup. I believe the hawker centre is still there but I wouldn't know about the shops. Don't go that way anymore especially seeing as my grandparents have passed on already.

My fourth food memory will have to be my mom's cooking especially at Christmas! We would always invite our family (my mom's side only) and friends over to our house for a dinner party and my mom would cook up a good spread. I mean the dinning table (which could fit like 8) would be completely covered with food served buffet style. There would be a huge turkey, plenty of stuffing, gravy (not cranberry sauce - English have turkey with gravy, Americans have it with cranberry sauce), different types of potatoes (roasted, mashed, sauteed), carrots, peas, etc. We would have so much food that we would usually have some leftovers.

My fifth food memory would have to be chicken or turkey a la king - usually had turkey a la king after our christmas party lol. This is how we normally use leftover turkey and roast chicken.

Man, now I'm really hungry!!! Thank goodness it's only another 20 mins till lunch time!

This Meme baton has been passed on to Modesty

Ventelated by MeiBao @ 12:03 PM