A Little Singapore Please

Off to the mysterious land of LA’s Farmer’s Market.for Singapore’s Banana Leaf. Usually when I go to the Farmer’s market it’s to either buy candy, meat or drink wine and eat cheese but this time Singapore here I come! I ponied up and asked what was their most popular dish and I was told it was the Mee Goreng Indo style.  Nothing like Gangnam style this means I get a fried egg on top and two satay sticks. I also at the same time ordered the Chendol, which is really a dessert but I was going sip on it. I have a hard time resisting coconut anything and this was concocted up with Palm Sugar, Coconut, Crushed Ice & Chendol beans. Chendol beans I’m not sure are really beans but they certainly looked like little green worms. I took my seat and dove in. Now here’s a confession. I sorta wolfed it down really really fast. I don’t often treat myself to a plate of noodles, what can I say. All I really remember was it was sweet but with enough salt to balance it and creamy from the egg yolk, crunchy from peanuts and oops it was gone.

Here’s something that did haunt me however. I was seated facing another vendor, a sticker store. An entire store dedicated to and celebrating stickers. First of all do kids really give a crap about stickers these days? I guess so that store is there. I was into stickers as a kid, I was… but that was before the days of internet and texting, it was clearly the dark ages so I was deprived of civilized pastimes.  That simpleton “hobby” of mine involved sticker parties and sticker store visits all to fill my purple “Sticker Book” with as many stickers as I could get my Cheeto-stained fingers on.

Who would’ve ever foreseen the United States takeover by STICKERS? They were so innocent and cute right? Now you can’t buy a piece of fruit with out a sticker. Stickers on delicate peaches, stickers on tomatoes- stickers that rip the skin right off! With every avocado there is a sticker placed exactly on the line in which you want to cut, you don’t believe me look for yourself- but maybe you are one of those people that live without a care and still cut along that line leaving sticker parts on your knife (that you probably put in the dishwasher don’t you? Don’t put your good knives in there!) and sticker parts on you avocado yummy parts. If that’s not bad enough how about anything plastic, anything glass, anything on sale. AUGHHHHH! STICKERS ON EVERYTING.  There’s a permanent sticker on my sun visor in my car reminding me of some safety something or another, I don’t read it because it’s a sticker I can’t remove so it makes me angry. I bet I would cry if I knew how many hours of my life I’ve wasted vigilantly removing stickers with Goo Gone.

At least riddle me this, I know there’s the technology available to make stickers not so sticky, to come off cleanly in one piece, on occasion you run in to those and what a joy they are to remove, WHY CAN’T all sticker be like that? WHYYYYYYYYYYY?

Hey kids out there that are still collecting stickers, come by my place- you can have alllllll the stickers you want.

Oh and the coconut drink was super yummy.