Eating Healthy in Singapore
I never really dined out much when I was younger. I always ate a lot of home-cooked foods when growing up, because Dad seldom took us out to eat. I could say that I’ve been deprived of good hawker fare in Singapore and I’m trying to make up for all that lost time. I’ve had so many wonderful encounters with the local food hawkers, but I must say that the nicest experience was always the warm welcome I’d receive after I blogged about which hawker I liked the best. I’ll usually find a hawker that serves what I consider the best sushi Singapore has to offer. The sushi hawker will always tell me, because of my blog, just how much their business has tripled.
I’ll even get invitations from promotional agencies as well as from other street hawkers to dine at their establishments. Sometimes, I’ll read about an interesting hawker in the newspaper or word-of-mouth and go try those places. There are lots of ways to hear about a great place to dine. Their success is not about my review in my blogs but truly about having the right product and experience of any restaurant or street hawker.
Singaporeans love to eat and being the technical savvy generation, they are surfing the net for good food and places to dine. Blogs are a first hand experience of a real person. At first, all you have was word-of-mouth, then restaurant reviewers from the local newspaper, but now there’s the web. That is where it’s at now.
As for healthy eating, it all boils down to eating in moderation. For example, if I know that I’m going to have a heavy meal at night, I’ll make sure to have smaller meals during the day. It’s really very simple, healthy eating, it’s a way of looking at it and achieving balance in one’s food intake. I still cook at home over the weekends though, I have more time on my hands during this period of the week. For the moment, I’m experimenting with gluten free pizza and pasta. I make my own gluten free dough for the pizza and make my own sauces. As for the pasta, I’ll purchase a rice pasta from the market. It’s really not hard to eat healthy, it’s a choice. So, become choosy.
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