An Asean dessert made of ice and sago (tapioca balls), coconut milk and ice – and it’s darn cheap in Malaysia and Singapore.  You can find this in any road side stalls or food court.

Prince Hotel – KL, Malaysia

Meritus Mandarin – Singapore

Mooncake with a twist – sponge cake like mooncake

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Chicken Rice, still my favorite and had this the very first time when I was in Singapore, visiting my online g/f.

We cooked some curry in the middle of the night in hope that we didn’t have to get up too early the next day too cook before rushing the kid off to school and us to work.  It was late and I didn’t realised that the chicken was bad till i cooked it and it smelled really funny.  A check with the wife and she said – no – the curry is bad – it smelled awful.  I had to throw the whole pot out.  Bad chicken makes bad curry.  The next time, I better check the chicken first, the spices are precious to the wife because you can’t get them here, she had friends sent them to her from home.

The wife calls this the Nazi Deli because of its Nazi chef but that was a long time ago, the current chef is nice and the Nazi chef although cooked excellent food is gone.  I was back for a business trip and thought I would drop in for some pastrami sandwich while the wife had onion soup and reuben sandwich with sauerkraut.

The Steeples deli is actually quite a nice cozy place but come lunch time, you probably don’t want to go there, it is too cramp.  Located at Tanglin Shopping Center, just off Orchard Road, it’s on the 4th floor and opens daily even on Sundays.  I guess we will always visit the Steeples deli whenever we are back in Singapore because my wife have been patronising this place since her college days.

I wasn’t kidding when I told you all that I liked junk food.  Krispy Kreme in Japan is a must when we had a stopover there.  I bought a bunch to share with the co-workers in India and they were thrilled.   Eating it fresh brings out the ultimate taste of these donuts but it still tasted pretty good after a few hours.  Located in Shinjiku, Tokyo – we never miss this store.

Found this in the Malaysia supermarket and brought some home.  The wife said she grew up eating them and they smell fishy like cuttlefish.  Very chewy and a great snack with beer.

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Traveled to Singapore 9 yrs ago, to meet my then online girlfriend and I ate this meat on a skewer for almost most of my meal.  For those who have tried satay before, you know it can get addictive but for those who don’t know what I’m talking about, well, Satay is actually a malay dish.  It comes with peanut sauce and some steamed square rice called kutupat.  You bbq the chicken meat or beef or even pork meat in some charcoal BBQ  and they put some kind fragrant oil while BBQing and that’s the local dish i survived on for almost 5 weeks in Asia.  Of course, there are other dishes I liked but that’s for another day.