Taiwan Snack

A friend of mine returned from Taiwan and brought back a packet of 铁蛋 and 牛尾巴饼。However, the 铁蛋 tasted extremely horrible ..... despite he mentioned that it was from a famous shop in 淡水....... I felt like biting a rubber ball. I think he could have bought it from the wrong shop..... I prefer the one make from chicken egg than quail egg as I still can taste the egg white.


I yet to open the 牛尾巴饼... I think it may be something like 牛舌饼. Talking about牛舌饼, I make a blunder years back when I first visited to Taiwan.........


在一间台东土产店.......

老板：来尝尝我们店里的特产..... 牛舌饼.... 带点回新加坡给你朋友或同事尝尝
我：老板，不好意思啦！我的同事不能吃有牛的东西啦！

老板和我的朋友笑翻了................ I really want to dig a hole......

Frangipani

Passed by Raffles Hotel and saw there were few frangipani trees outside the hotel.


It reminded me of the road which I used to pass through before reaching grandma's house and to primary school.

Frangipani is the national flower of Bali Island, you can see Balinese .. male or female will wear one on their head... however Singapore Chinese do not like this flower especially the older generation people..... beside calling 鸡蛋花 in Chinese...... Frangipani has another Chinese name...... 死人花.... dead people flower............ because Frangipani in the old days was used to make the flower ring especially for the condolences occasion.

Memory Lane....

As mentioned in my previous post, visiting the museums really bring back some of my childhood memory............

This was the tuk-tuk kueh mobile stall that they will cycle to different areas or streets to sell the kueh..... and nowadays I already hardly eat tuk tuk kueh......

You still able to see this ice kachang machine in the dessert stalls, however now mainly operate by electric. In those old days, planing the ice block is done manually. I still remember, there was a stall down the end of Tras Street where my grandmother used to stay. With 5 cents at that time, I am able to buy a ice ball with colored syrup (those put in the ice kachang) on it........ added another 5 cents to have the red beans in it. Sometime what my friend and I did is to chip out 5 cents each to get the ice ball with red bean and asked the owner to half it for us. We always ended up with sticky hand.

Incidentally, I passed by the areas where I grown up.........

The house where I was born had been demolished years back.... now it just a plot of field waiting for development.

Just on the other side of the road, it was the building where my grandmother used to stay. I also did stay there during my primary school days.

My primary school is just next street from my grandmother's house. In those days, it was rare to have lift in a school. My primary school is one of them which have a lift and the other school that I know was Pearl Hill Primary School.