The Lost Kway Teow

And so I started with my new job in my new workplace. As I have been warned I will have no team mates, thus, as I have expected I would be spending my lunch breaks with myself. This is something I have to get used to (aside from the fact that my desk is strategically located with the CEO's desk a couple of meters away behind me). I have been used to having my girlfriends cum lunch buddies in my previous work that I need to adjust being alone again, and I always feel sad when I eat alone. So in times when I eat alone, I have observed that I keep myself from being lonely by having
Kway Teow (image also taken from there) or Hokkien Mee, but I am more keen on the former.

As the Kway Teow is a common food in Singapore, I should be able to find it in any food center. So when I went to the food center at the back of the building where I work, the first thing I looked for was for a Kway Teow. To my surprise there was only one store selling Kway Teow, so even if the line was long I queued and waited. Then my turn came and Auntie seller took my order, I said I'd have a Kway Teow and since I could not clearly understand what Auntie was saying, when she asked me something I just said yes like I usually do so to make things simpler. But then after saying yes I had a feeling I made a wrong answer. When I got my order was the time I realized what Auntie seller asked me -- she was clarifying if I wanted "the soup one", to which I answered yes so she gave me a big bowl of Kway Teow SOUP!

Awwwww nooooo!!! =(

I wanted the fried Kway Teow, I thought it was standard that when you say Kway Teow, it's FRIED seafood Kway Teow. But well too late, so I ate the Kway Teow SOUP. In fairness it was delicious, but still I am not into soups because for some reason I always have my tongue get "burned" from eating hot soup so it takes me eternity to finish a bowl of soup because I have to eat slowly to wait for the soup to cool down a little.

Anyway, the following day I went back to the same store to get myself a FRIED Kway Teow and guess what, it didn't taste good so I was sooo disappointed.

Awwwwww noooo!!! =(

I really don't know what's the point of me writing about my obsession on Kway Teow. Just that I got frustrated that I couldn't have a nice fried kway teow that day, moreso I got lost after deciding to take the bus going to the mall I needed to go to after work and then when I got a taxi finally I was unfortunately stuck in an unusual traffic jam that the only thing I could say to Uncle taxi driver to strike a conversation was where I could find the best fried Kway Teow in Singapore. He looked like he was amused to know I like Kway Teow and so he seemed happy to think about it and finally said in the restaurants in the East Coast.

But then again, when I think about Kway Teow now, suddenly, I don't feel like having one anymore. Suddenly, I just lost my craving for it.

Awww nooooo!!! =(