How Far Would You Go For Good Food?

There is this small eatery close to where I stay. It is popular for its white beehoon. The beehoon is cooked in a tasty seafood broth, cooked together with seafood and veggies.


On our visit today, we waited for exactly 47 minutes until we managed to get seats, and the timing excluded the food waiting time. The queue also applies for food take away.

It prompted me to ask the question, how far would you go for food? Good food? There are some popular eateries nearby with lesser queue. But people did not budge. They still waited patiently in line.

There was one time, Y and I went to the popular chicken rice stall. It's a highly acclaimed one, rated highly by Anthony Bourdain. The queue was inescapably long. The chicken rice was good. But, to each of her own, I don't think it was that fantastic to warrant such high acclaim or long queue (if the queue is considered as the good food factor).

The funny thing about this, it was my girl who requested for the beehoon. And we did warn her about the long queue. It did not deter her, though. She said, "We'll just come earlier and waited a little bit!" I wonder if she is one foodie in the making, willing to sacrifice her time and money for good food when she is older?

How far would you go for good food?

I Join The Fad! Rainbow Cake It Is...

I have always been a late bloomer. The last time, when everyone was crazy about Duran-Duran, I was crazy about Candy-Candy soundtrack. I sang the Candy song everytime I had a chance and my family had a hard time with my singing. Later, came NKOTB, I hated them! I mean, look at them, physically, what was so cute about them? Probably Joe was acceptable, but the rest? Blahhh!!!! The songs? So-so! That was my teenage thought and it has not changed since then.

So, that makes me a boring person, I don't join the crowd. I pretty much live in my own world. I never go crazy over something, except for my previous boyfriend(s), husband, kids. And...FOOD!

When it comes to food, I join in the crowd. I go for crowded popular restaurant, I follow the trend of popular food and cakes. And when the cloud world is shaken with so-called Rainbow and Ombre Cake, I made it a point to make the cake into my to do list.

I mean, what's not to like about the cheerful happy color of each cake layer? Food coloring!! For the same reason I refuse to bake red velvet cake and just ate a piece shared with 2 other friends a couple of months ago.

But, how can I resist the notion of baking something so colourful, so cheerful, and make the kids go ,"Awesome!!!" over it?

So, one fine day, I decided to bake one..and I said to myself, since I bake one, let's go all out and make this the ultimate vibrant rainbow, with lots and lots of coloring.

But, no matter how I tried, my hands just refused to follow my brain direction. Or it's left brain vs right brain. My right brain said, "go for it, pour in more colors. The cake needs to be bright and vibrant, you don't bake this often, anyway!" My left brain shouted, "nooooo!!!! You can't do that to your body. Think about your kids, think of what future may hold without that much chemical entering your body! You may be slimmer with less toxic in your body!"

With all those thoughts running around in my mind, plus the facts that I've got two little elves mixing the color for me, I ended up with the rainbow right after the rain as captured in the picture!

The kids devoured the cake right away, while me and my husband looked at the cake for a long time. He said, "Are you sure it's safe to eat?" to which I replied,"Yes, I use Wilton coloring and they have not expired yet!"
He said, "It tastes weird, maybe because of the colors!"
That, despite the fact that I used the same exact recipe for my vanilla sponge cake. Funny how our psyche can alter our perception of taste.

Definitely it's not something that I would be baking often. But for now, I am glad that I've conquered it!

Note: This cake really has the Wow factor. But, I have this psychological nauseausness whenever I eat something that colorful. Definitely not something that I will eat for myself. Uughh!!