Food anyone?

Ack... I've spent a lot of time in Singapore. Collectively speaking, you won't find a nicer, kinder, group of people anywhere, but their food makes me yack.

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Originally Posted by Ldsdad

Ack... I've spent a lot of time in Singapore. Collectively speaking, you won't find a nicer, kinder, group of people anywhere, but their food makes me yack.

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Some of the food is great, but some is gruesome. I once unknowingly ordered what turned out to be a sandwich with a filling of meat floss and condensed milk. Shudder.

Oh my gosh, Kaykaykay, that sounds truly awful. You are right, though, there are some things - one, anyway - that is/are good. Did you ever go out to Clarke Quay in the evening and get those huge shrimp cooked shish-ka-bob style on a stick? THOSE were fabulous.
After several misadventures, however, I would only eat from American fast food chains, or Chinese or Indian food - never the local stuff. The Indian restaurants were great.

Is meat floss that meat that's shredded so fine, it looks like brown cotton candy?

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Originally Posted by Ldsdad

Oh my gosh, Kaykaykay, that sounds truly awful. You are right, though, there are some things - one, anyway - that is/are good. Did you ever go out to Clarke Quay in the evening and get those huge shrimp cooked shish-ka-bob style on a stick? THOSE were fabulous.
After several misadventures, however, I would only eat from American fast food chains, or Chinese or Indian food - never the local stuff. The Indian restaurants were great.

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I'm not fond of shrimp, so have never had those. But there's great food in Singapore sometimes because of the cultural mix, and sometimes stuff I find inedible, lol.

The weird thing is, the last great food I had from Singapore was an apple strudel that someone hand-carried to Hong Kong while I was visiting a friend there, lol. I didn't bother asking the name of the bakery, but was told that the friend of friend, who gifted the strudel, always brought them back from there. Weird.

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Originally Posted by scifan57

Is meat floss that meat that's shredded so fine, it looks like brown cotton candy?

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Yes, that's the stuff.

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Originally Posted by Kaykaykay

Yes, that's the stuff.

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We sell it in the imported food section of the store where I work.

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Originally Posted by scifan57

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_in_the_hole

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That sounds good. Now I am hungry

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Originally Posted by scifan57

We sell it in the imported food section of the store where I work.

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It's popular, but usually in a savory use, like in congee (which is a rice gruel that's popular with Chinese).

Spaghetti Florentine sandwiches at the Admiral's
table tonight!

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Haute cuisine I tell ya!

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