Eats: The global food adventure

Just a sample of what I've been up to:

London

Chicory wrapped in parma ham and baked in a bechamel sauce
(i.e. roux of butter and flour + milk)
~ recipe courtesy of The Lovely Flatmate's birthday gift
of The Silver Spoon

The Lovely Flatmate's butter prawns
~ courtesy of her mum's recipe
(we eat very well in this household)

Singapore

Banana Leaf Apollo - Indian rice (thali)
served on a banana leaf

Fish head curry - yums!

Proof that women really can sell everything -
including seafood!
(at Long Beach, Dempsey Road)

The Boy enjoying the juice of a young coconut -

Razor clams

Crispy duck in a seafood restaurant

Have you ever seen a geoduck?

Giant crabs - yum yum

Fishies - yum yum

The Boy's Macbeth witch impersonation,
over a "cauldron" of mango pudding

The Straits Cafe at The Hyatt -
hawker food in 5 star surroundings.
Perfect!

Sharks' fin soup at Taste Paradise
- one of my favourite Chinese restaurants.

Taste Paradise's famous cod

Dad's favourite fish at his favourite restaurant -
deep fried marbled goby (soon hock) at Ting Heng.
Beautiful, ain't it?

The Boy describes durian as "french onion soup in solid form", which sounds delicious to me! This time, I (previously of the D24 level) was taken to a new level of durian heaven with the mao shan huang (yellow mountain cat) - ieatishootipost has a great blog about the different types of durians here.

UPDATE: Man, this is what I call durian devotee!