Singapore. Smith Street. Satay. So yummy
I, together with three friends, had chicken and mutton satay from a little kiosk called City Satay. We sat around a table along Smith Street in Singapore's Chinatown where Chinese lanterns hung high above our heads. The company of friends, the festive atmosphere coupled with tasty yet inexpensive food = a very happy Ces (and a cup of choco).
The meat was well-done yet tender. The peanut sauce went nicely with the dish. The satay rice the kiosk sold was like the puso here (rice wrapped/cooked in woven banana leaves). The satay rice was...how do I put this? Like one whole big rice grain. I can spear it with the satay stick. I don't know how it was cooked, but it was if the rice grains were grinded, turned into a paste, then boiled/steamed. My friends said they tired easily of the taste, but to me, satay rice tasted really good.
The kiosk sold the satay at 60 cents per stick. They require you to order a minimum of 10 sticks, which is not at all that many. It's not as if they use bamboo sticks and the meat is one whole pig (a.k.a. lechon). If only our hotel was close to Chinatown and we didn't have somewhere else to go afterwards, I would have downed the food with ice-cold beer. I'm not a big beer drinker; I just think beer and satay would go nicely together. ;-)
So it came to pass. On All Saints' Day, sitting around a table in the company of friends, I ate chicken and mutton satay with satay rice for dinner. It felt as if all the saints in heaven were blessing me.
Ahhh, happiness.
