Food Cravings a la Singapore

I've had another one of my heaven buffet dreams. I have to admit I actually sleep in a couple of hours longer when I have one of these, because the craving is so big that I can actually taste the food.

This one was a cross between a really good Cantonese restaurant at Raffles place, mama's cooking and a recent smorgasbord at the Fallsview casino at Niagara. No one does a buffet like the Americans do for scale, but oh how I miss the good stuff.

I started out with some deep fried szechuan shrimp, grandma's popiah/ spring rolls and curry puffs, nana's potato crumpets, century egg congee [I can't find it in Toronto to save my life], gai lok [dim sum chicken feet], shanghai dumplings and crispy noodles with seafood [forgot the name of that one].

And that was just the first go. Second/third/fourth/fifth/sixth go was chicken briyani, murtabak, chwee kweh, chomp chomp hokkien mee, chili, black bean and tomato crab [yes all three], mee rebus, laksa, bak kut teh, crispy deep fried mini squid, deep fried taro/tapioca bowl with beef, chicken wings, sambal fish, more dim sum, chicken curry, chap chai, tom yam [a small reminder of bangkok, so bangkok tom yam.... which is nowhere near what you get in either singapore or toronto or anywhere else. You HAVE to go to Bangkok] , deep fried garlic chili coated tilapia, goreng pisang, prata, chicken rice.....shrimp, lots and lots of shrimp and lobster and crab and crayfish and more fish and deep fried fish with soy and ginger and more murtabak and curry and hor fun.........

And then I wake up and wonder what made me leave.