Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

I felt like a dead-beaten horse today, so great was the mental inertia that it took cold, hard reasoning to convince myself to go out. When your emotional side starts feeling neutral about stepping out into the world, you know that you’re in trouble.

“So, you’ve realised that, you hermit nerd? What are you going to do about that?” you might ask.

Absolutely nothing!

Eventually, I went out with JJ and Xiang Ju in the evening for dinner. You skirt-chasers! You’re hoping that I hung out with some girls, right? I won’t give you the satisfaction of confirming whether they are guys or gals. Sweet suspension. I’m looking at you Kester.

Yesterday and today was quite chaotic; my DNS host went down, and took with it the entire SgBlogging.com down. Thankfully, the modular nature of the Internet meant that sites on other domains are not affected, as long as the hosting server itself remains up.

Swapping the domain name server for the domain was a nightmare, since the records needed quite some time to propagate through the inter-tubes. In the meantime, all my inbound email were lost. Coupled with me having to manually add the records on an alternate DNS server, it took almost 2 days for the domain to pop back up again.

While the new DNS records spread around the Internet at a snail pace, I had dinner at the Golden Mile Market. It’s the one where NSFs and NSmen go to purchase their army stuff. There’re quite a few nice hawker stalls there. I went for the Hainan Hokkien Mee posted on ieatishootipost.

Surprisingly, there wasn’t a queue at the stall when I went there to order. I’ve always thought that Singaporeans will queue up for good food, so being a typical Singaporean myself, I doubted the quality of the food, but the adventurer in me (where is he when I needed the motivation to get out of my house?) decided to try it for heck’s sake.

Heck certainly wasn’t wrong about the tastiness of the Hokkien Mee. Not too far off, at any rate. I don’t think the stall deserved the 4.6 points though. The noodles were well-fried, and I could taste the prawn stock within them, but the taste itself is quite ordinary. Maybe a step above the other hawkers, but it isn’t so good that it gets a distinction. I’d give it a 3.75 out of 5. The portion is very small for $3, and I was only given 1 piece of split prawn.

It left my stomach growling for more attention, so we had some Zui Kuey (水粿） next.

Image courtesy of Makansutra

There isn’t much to write about Zui Kuey though. The cake was quite hot, since we ate it right after it came out of the steamer, but since it’s a simple meal, I’d keep my comments similarly simple.

ieatishootipost also recommended the Ice Queen Ice Cream, as well as the Ah Balling Peanut Stall, which I both tried. The gelato at Ice Queen is on par, if not better than some of the gelatos I’ve tasted (I’ve forgotten the name, but update this post if I remember the name). The glutineous rice balls (汤圆) from Ah Balling was tasty and easy to chew. The peanut filling matched well with the translucent skin, and is just the right sweetness. After washing it down with the peanut soup, I was quite satisfied with my meal.

Total spent: $8.20

Hokkien Mee: $3
Zui Kuey: Free (Xiang Ju’s treat)
Gelato: $3.20
Glutineous rice balls: $2

I might have skipped the Zui Kuey if I went for a more filling meal. It was worth the try though. I might try the Char Kway Teow when I stop by the next time, but before that, I need to start burning the calories I’ve eaten today.

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