A strange feast

Since I came to Singapore, I’ve tasted different kinds of food such as Indian cuisine, Muslim cuisine, Singaporean cuisine. But there isn’t any Thai cuisine in the canteen, so I’ve never tried that. But this Saturday, I had a chance. Mrs. Yap invited us mentees to a Thai food buffet. It was really a strange taste feast.

After arriving, Mrs. Yap took the menu and started to introduce some of Thai food. She told us that the biggest features of Thai food were hot and sour, and most of the food were cooked with spices. Then she ordered a series of characteristic Thai food. I was so anxious about the food because I didn’t have breakfast for this morning and I was very hungry.

The first food served was a bowl of soup which was translucent. I could see meat and some small green or white things in it, maybe those were special spices. Then I took the spoon and had a taste. Too sour! I even trembled after tasting such sour soup. Then I felt a strong taste which was like ginger. But I really didn’t like the taste of gingers. But the meat in the soup tasted very good. After drinking most of the liquid and eating up the meat, there were some soup and the green and white spices in the bowl. For not wasting, I swallowed the left soup without chewing. At last I finished the strange soup. Later I asked others their feelings about the soup, the two girls found it was quite delicious and Elian even wanted another bowl. But Edison and I thought it was just so-so. Maybe it was the difference between the boy’s and girl’s taste.

The food I liked most was the pineapple rice. It was all yellow and with some dried meat floss on the top. Mrs. Yap told us that the traditional pineapple rice was cooked in a pineapple shell and also served in the shell. But the rice they served us was on a plate. With the rice, they also served the green curry which was totally different from the Indian curry because it was cooked with coconut milk. So it tasted quite good and rich. I put some green curry on the pineapple rice, oh, so yummy! The scent of coconut milk mixed with pineapple was quite extraordinary. So I had a lot of rice and was soon full-no plenty room for other delicious food. T_T

We tasted 11 dishes of Thai food that day. Every dish had its own feature and tasted strange compared with Chinese food. But I really like it. It was a wonderful strange feast. At last, thanks a lot to Mrs. Yap for inviting us to have such a wonderful experience!