Ah food. How I love you so.
I’ve been introduced to some incredible food the past two weeks. None of it has been healthful. Most of it has been tasty.
Let’s start there. Tasty. Coon Tasty cheese. It’s cheddar cheese from Australia, and it is indeed tasty. Then of course there are Tasties, the cheese curls I’ve become addicted to. Oh, and of course Tim Tams, but I already knew I loved those.
Plenty of bad food, and that’s before the Land of Bread.
I’d been looking forward to my return to Singapore, because I remembered the delicious Chili Crab and Black Pepper Crab. They didn’t disappoint me. Delicious tender whole crabs, smothered in spicy sauce. (I just lost my dad there, who probably thinks that is cruelty to crab.) But the highlight of this trip to Singapore has been the remarkable bread shops I’d never noticed before.
Shops are called “Bread Talk” and “Toast” and “Grow Your Butt By Eating Bread.” You walk in and pick up a tray and (OH HOW I LOVE THIS NEXT PART) your very own tongs. When you have severe food allergies, you have to be wary of using utensils other people have used. Other people have no problem using the tongs for the plain, safe food on the peanut-filled, poisonous food.
OK, so now that you have your tray, you go to all of these little compartments that have any kind of bread you might imagine. There are plain white rolls. Fluffy, light, perfect rolls. Then there are cheese rolls. Oh, keep walking and you’ll find the triple cheese rolls. That one there? That’s a ham and cheese roll. Beware the chicken curry roll, which is tasty but surprisingly contains beans. (Benadryl? Check!) I had to avoid the tuna rolls, but maybe you’d want one. Every savory filling you could imagine, in the best bread ever.
And then the sweet rolls. Mocha, chocolate, apple, raspberry, cranberry. Powdered. Sugared. Sprinkled.
I’ve made three meals already out of just bread. Each meal cost less than $3 US.
I leave tomorrow. Good-bye, my friend bread. Once I’m back in the US, it’s hello Weight Watchers.
** I forgot all about the caramel and sea salt ice cream. Yowza.
