after weeks and weeks of postponement, julian, addy, von, choonping and myself finally went to the much touted macpherson teochew restaurant (swa garden). as i am neither the food expert nor even a pure teochew with grandmothers who make the pau of kungbapau from scratch and mothers who lor massive ahs for chinese new year, i will merely state what we ordered and leave the food review to people who are: would von or choonping contribute a guest entry in the form of a food review perhaps?)

what we ate

• cold crab (2 large)
• fish maw soup
• ku chai peh with prawn
• goose meat
• a crispy salad prawn dish
• dry kueh teow
• or nee with pumpkin and gingko nuts

(random snippets of dinnertime conversation:)

addy: this crab is amazingly good! how do they cook it?
choonping: disdainfully. and then the crab feels so guilty it makes itself taste good.

choonping: kek you is counter-intuitive!

choonping to vaughn: you speak teochew like an acs boy speaks chinese.

choonping: "an acs boy goes to his chinese oral exam. he walks in the room, the teacher says: jiao she me ming zi. acs boy: xiaoming (or whatever) teacher: xing shen me? acs boy: yesu.

there is also a joke about the twelve tones in teochew which cannot be represented here. maybe we'll have choonping record the 12 tones and put it here as a .wav file or something.

i go to bed. the ornee really was good.