Chou Yang - porridge to stave off the heat and excess

One minute it's raining , next minute it's hot. 

Tai Buan porridge - Muntri Street

The weather's been so hot lately.

33 Celcius on Sunday.

Dove into this oldie but goodie Moi place to cool down the system.

Am featuring this bowl of humble porridge first because for Moi connoiseurs , achieving a texture of this consistency takes a lot of TLC as well as some secret kungfu .

Newday for teochew porridge ( NH )

At night this is the only place to go to for teochew moey.

Anything that runs out in this food station is replenished el pronto

Restoran Chaw Choon - Raja Uda ( NH )

While exploring Jalan Raja Uda , I chanced upon this crazy, packed with so many people dimsum place and have been coming back regularly ever since.

Century egg porridge is my favourite

French beans fried with har mai and sambal too.

Crunchy and delicious !

Sampan Porridge

This is my first attempt at this dish and probably after today it will be my last.

It's supper, past 11.40 pm and we find ourselves at Fa Yuen Street inside this little shop.

Keep your eyes on the road outside, don't look at the floor.

Prices are extremely reasonable but the crowd consists of a motley of tough characters too.

I decided on this shop against a dim sum palace as I wanted a more authentic version as opposed to a more refined recipe of this humble dish.

But nothing prepared me for the things I found inside the congee.

Floured minced pieces of what tasted like some kind of meat which I have no intention of finding out, together with brown squid tentacles and gasp ! is that urchin ? complete with spikes ? then more sea cucumber like strings together with fried peanuts.

Lost my appetite because I find some of these ingredients a little hard to stomach. I think it was the shock of seeing the little spikes on the urchin that made it revolting .

The dumpling on the other hand was much better. There was a thick layer of mashed black eyed beans at the bottom layer, much better than our version.

However when we got to the centre, it was only a small piece of fat from the pork belly minus any meat.

Served on top of a saucer of light soya sauce. Quite nice. If only the plate didn't look so greasy .

Lastly we had the red bean dessert. Pretty much home made and ordinary tasting. Just like what we would cook back home.

Frog Porridge, Goodall Cafe ( NH )

Some people believe that frogmeat is supposed to be beneficial for cleansing our blood and perking up our constitution.

It is considered good for treating exhaustion, great for strengthening the immune systems in small children. Even better for women who seek a radiant complexion.

Almost wiped out and hunted to extinction, most of it that makes it to our table today is farm produced.
The method of slaughter however is starkly cruel on the same level as dog and whale meat.
Thus if you find this delicacy shockingly unagreeable, I would advise you not read on.

To make it sound more palatable, it is sometimes called 'tin kai' or padi chicken.
Whether it is farmed American bullfrog or river frog,whatever they label it,it is still frogmeat.