*dimsumdolly* - the different morsels of the life of a foodie

Thanks, Congrats & Well wishes

This is great! I have gotten my first blog up and I am now itching to explore more with different colours, fonts and layouts. I will need plenty of help from my dear friend Vanessa who has so kindly helped me to set up this blog. I will extend a big THANK YOU to her now! Thanks Van! You're the best!

Here's some congratulatory greetings to a dear friend, May, who will have her co-authored work published in what she calls "a wee little journal". Well, "wee" it may be, but it is undoubtably an achievement which will take her further into the academic world which she looks headed towards.

Also, congrats to yet another dear friend, Desiree, who has passed her driving test! At least she hasn't got the dubious honour of taking the test the most times among the friends I know. Yours truly has that honour, but that supposedly makes me a safe driver. Ha.

At this point in time, another dear friend Vanessa is probably on board a plane with her new husband, flying to Michigan where she will call home for the next two years. Take care Vanny and have fun as you begin your new life as wife & graduate student!

In a short while, I'll be having a "Teaching & Learning Literacy" class from 4:30 - 6:30pm and "Language Development" class from 7 - 9pm. This is the first week of classes and I'm hoping I get good lecturers!

*cross fingers*

Food Item of the Day: Polo Bun aka Pineapple Bun

I had this popular Chinese sweet bread as a snack today. Popped by this very nondescript Chinese bakery tucked in a small corner of Chinatown. It's funny - the more nondescript these stalls are, the more popular and tastier the food seems to be.

I love eating this buns. There are different versions of it. Some of it plain with no filling, and some with coconut, red bean or char siew. Personally, I like those with char siew filling in them.

However, Polo-Char Siew buns cannot be found in Chinese bakeries in Hong Kong and Sydney. It seems like it's something Singapore bakeries like Crystal Jade invented. My sister who went to Hong Kong and tried to order a Polo-Char Siew Bao ended up getting a plain Polo Bun and a Char Siew Bao. When she said that she wanted a Polo-Char Siew Bao, the man thought she was trying to be difficult.

And oh, Pineapple buns are so-called not because it's made from pineapple, but rather it's because they look like the surface of the pineapple! (The "pineapple" topping is made from sugar, butter, egg yolk, milk, flour and baking powder.)

Posted by DSD at July 29, 2003 5:02 PM