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The first catch of the wet day
Another catch by the Lobster Queen
Those that did not get away ended up in my cooking pot
Another one.....and another one....
Bringing home to cook for the rest of the gang
Quite a reasonably-sized prawn for an amateur like me
Glee to kill and thrill to krill
Look Ma, What I have for you!
More like longkang fishing during my younger days
CALORIE AND CHOLESTEROL
Within a week I had three department lunches. Not your usual canteen food but good food which is not too good for the heart and waist. But who cares when we got to bond with colleagues over oily, deep fried, sweet, lemak and sinful food after a year of working hard and not seeing each other much. We even celebrated a colleague's birthday in beween the three lunches. Straits, Thai-Chinese, Japanese and Malay cuisine and dishes fought for space in my digestive system.
The climax of the week I must say is the Prawning session we had. Yeh! When you fish we say fishing so what do say when one goes to catch prawn? I simply termed it as 'Prawning'. A group of us went to Sembawang Bottle Tree Park and just soaked in the rain to prawn. I started the opening ceremony by catcing the the first prawn among the nine of us in the group. My total haul was six prawns in two hours. Not so productive but the thrill to see your sinker go below the water level and to feel the tug of the rascal at the end of the chicken-liver-bait hook was enough to justify the long arduous wait. We hooked up 26 'udang galah' or little lobsters. They in turn ended up in my pot together with some chilly padi, curry powder and oyster sauce. They were grilled to kill the tastebuds.
The next time I have some hours to spare, you will know where to find me.
