Chionggirl in Shanghai

This post is about the kind of food mour eat when I am dining on my own. Just some convenient food I eat. First up, my attempt at making good frozen wonton.

1) First wonton soup trial

Yes, too much pepper. Cos I accidentally dropped too much pepper from the pepper packet. And it looks like a bowl of oily Shanghai soup cos I was over-enthusiastic about the sesame oil.

The taste was plain, because I thought Maggi Seasoning Sauce is good enough to replace salt (I didn't want to buy salt, cos I don't think I will use much of it). But the frozen wonton has its own taste (MSG, I reckon) so I was kinda happy that I didn't have salt. (Come to think of it, i should eat the leftover wontons sparingly... MSG = No Good..

 

 

2) Latte Drinking at the Government Affairs of Exit-Entry Administration Bureau of Shanghai Public Security 上海市出入境管理局

While waiting for one of my missing documents to be couriered to me at the Bureau, I order a cup of Latte from the Cafe (a cafe that sells no warm food, but packets of dry food like potato chips, Kinder Bueno Chocolates and Oreo Cookies... No Bao包，no bread, no salad :( )

And while waiting, I wondered around and saw this. The latte was server in a mug that has paint that has worned off. I looked around and saw the mugs on the other tables. Theirs look fine. I am sure that the mug is clean and all, but serving from a mug with paint coming off from Henry Hippo and Hilda Hippo... I consoled myself. It could have been worse.

Oh, while waiting for my latte, I noticed the sign on my table.

Just spent RMB3 at the cafe and you can use the table. That is SGD$0.60. Yep. Easy peasy right?

 

3) Chinese Fast Food 心一代

That is Jian Jiao 煎饺，something like 锅贴 (RNB5). Oh, I like it because it smells of Fried Soon Kueh with sweet sauce when it was sitting on my lap on my way home (and I love Fried Soon Kueh/Bng Kueh with sweet sauce, and my regular is the one at Tiong Bahru Market).

The ones on the right are 小笼包 (RMB10). Instant 小笼包. For a foreigner, I think it's not too bad lah, though this set had some broken ones (the soup leaked out into the box), and some of the skins are not thoroughly cooked. But I told myself, it's fast food, be more forgiving.

 

4) Waffle Sandwich - Mr Waffle

Smoked Chicken Waffle Sandwich from Mr Waffle. A colleague of mine gave me the coupon to Mr Waffle and since I lived near to one, I decided to get dinner today (see what coupons do to you, Marketers, don't ignore coupons!). It looks nice, and it tastes better! It is really nice.  I also got muffins to bring to office tomorrow (they were on 1-for-1 offer). Will report on how they taste like.

 

As you can see, I am all for experimenting. But i wouldn't go so near to the really Chinese-Chinese food. I don't know how to appreciate it. Now I understand why the ang mohs in Singapore don't go to hawker centres. It's not a matter of them being atas and all... It's about getting adjusted to the taste, it's a cultural thing.

I am learning new things, it's a good thing.