food diary keeping makes me depressed.

stuffed full of food. let's test my temporal lobe and see if it's still functioning :D

breakfast: a cup of milk in the green tupperware cup that i like a lot. one of those funky stale dry flaky uber sweet lotus seed filling gardenia buns that my dad "koped" from camp.
lunch: din tai fung delicacies. golden short grain rice cooked to springy, chewy perfection, coated individually with a thin cloak of egg, and seasoned generously with pepper and salt. garnished with jade coils of spring onion (or what the westerners call shallots) and topped with 6 succulent strips of fried pork chop. beautifully wrapped thin-skinned wantons in a piquant soup, each jealously guarding a pregnant load of chives, minced meat and spring onions behind the fragile walls of flour. a round of their signature xiaolongbaos. another round of their super signature and uber chaoji super incredibly tasty xiefen xiaolongbaos (meaning it comes with savoury, juicy crab roe that gives an explosion of the taste of the sea with each bite). -oh goodness. just describing it gives me such a high! :D- and 2 funny baos that had thick, chewy, almost obnoxious, skin, and very juicy fillings of meat and more meat. handmade noodles with beef stew. the meat and tendons MELTED in my mouth - i practically made no use of my lateral and medial pterygoids... the intense cooking did all the work of mastication for me. yam filled xiaolongbaos. hot, astringent chinese tea. brief discourse for shopping, after which i had a mouthful of oh-ah mee-sua, lots of fried chicken cutlet strips, and fried tempura (taiwan style). i STILL haven't figured out why they call it tempura, since i see no batter, no filling, and the very delicious thing that's masquerading as a tempura tastes more like molten konnyaku jelly in a flour coating and covered head to toe in paprika powder and salt.
dinner: beef fried rice, a piece of KFC chicken left over from yesterday's party, a few popcorn chicken bits, and 5 tutu kueh.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mannnnnnnnnnnn.

i am SO going swimming at 7am tml.

mannnnnnnn.