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December 28th, 2008 in Random musings
I stopped by my regular bak chor mee store along upper thomson road today (picture courtesy of www.gothere.sg - use it, its a cool product our friends have developed). Unfortunately I never took the effort to remember the name of the store (but its in red). Now the interesting to note that on this stretch of food stores are two bak chor mee stores. The other immediately to the right of the red store - in blue.
The notable thing that noticed today was that the original “bak chor mee man” (the guy making the noodles) has defected to the blue store. Now I am not sure what happened - if he got fired or decided to become his own boss and take over the blue store (the latter is my guess - to be confirmed) but I thought it was note worthy.
Being the curious chap that I am, I bought two “mee kia bak chor mee’s” home . . . Here are the notable differences.
Red store: Had more minced meat in it. Had a shrimp. $3.50
Blue store: Had a pseudo abalone like thing. $3.00
I’ll come up with a better comparison to be done next time, I didn’t intend to blog about it and was famished so didn’t take the effort to study the two bowls. Also I guess it makes sense to do a “non-tapoed” review of the noodles.
Weight today: 76.2kg
Swim: Apparently did a 14.2 sec split for ~25m, I am pretty happy with it.