What's my definition of Good Food?

Some people in my Sociology of Food module class define it as fine dining - food that's prepared with sophistication (think measley portions of food, splattered with pretentious sauces as decorations).

To me, it's about food made with fresh, high quality ingredients and to top it off, being sold at reasonable prices. And Angie, Sarah and I found them... at Upper Thomson Road.

Here's how we began our Food Trail... (all photos taken by aspiring photographer, Angie!)

I took this photo here. These secondary school boys are so funny. They eat under the SCORCHING SUN, comfortably.

Nope, these aren't marble tiles. They are slices of heavenly dense cheese brownies from Baker's Story.

Har gow, lotus leaf rice and some meat&veg dumpling from Hwa Nam. The lotus leaf rice was piping hot and was surprising lighter than most glutinous rice. The har gow... Divine. Because the skin used to wrap the "har" (prawn) wasn't thick and thus, it didn't stick to the roof of the mouth, unlike many other packaged ones. The meat&veg dumpling was so-so only.

They cost $2 per basket.

I captured this shot, without using the screen or view finder. Ha.

Looks like Malaysia. Angie got a retro shot. I was thinking about the dim sum to choose from...

We were surprised when we spotted this ancient/retro SMRT bus. We used to take such buses when we were in primary school, and they are still in operation! Angie quickly told me to snap it, and I did.

So we ended our Upper Thomson Food Trail.

Days later, Sarah and I shared and devoured huge portions of Cajun chicken and Fish & Chips at Botak Jones (Clementi) but we still couldn't finish them. Angie and Chuan couldn't finish their portions too... Ha. I enjoyed the fries because they were spiced just nicely.

I also discovered a fab bakery at Shaw House - Sun Moulin. They sell belgian waffles, fluffy donuts and also good filling breads, at relatively reasonable prices. They don't scrimp on the fillings, unlike Breadtalk.
Breadtalk? Their quality of breads do not justify their price increase LAH.

I could have tasted freshly baked muffins just this Friday... But I missed our baking session. Sigh. But it's okay, Van's pictures already satisfied me.

It has indeed been an excellent GOOD FOOD week :)

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I hope Wenwen jiejie recovers soon from her operation. Wounds are never fun.