Sunday, July 12, 2009

Sambal Lala Challenge

Garlic (chopped), Ginger (sliced), Lala , Sambal paste, Spring onions (Sliced), Big onion (chopped) and cooking oil.

First, you fry the garlic, spring onions and ginger.

Onions too. Then, add sambal belachan. About 4 tsps here.

Put in the lala. Add water, sugar and soy sauce.

Ready to serve. My lala was actually more succlent than those at Geylang

Indian rojak

Today I am not going to cook Indian Rojak because really don't know how to cook but Indian Rojak and Roti patra is another food I like to eat.
Just like to read this Indian rojak topic .....

It is a famous Indian rojak stall at Geylang Serai market and had previously been featured on Makansutra. The stall, at #01-320, was rated two and a half chopsticks out of three in Makansutra’s 2007 food guide.

According to the review, regulars swear by its stewed beef liver.

The casualties:

ONE person is dead, another is in a coma and 25 others have been hospitalised so far in what is possibly Singapore’s worst case of mass food poisoning. One woman who was two months pregnant miscarried.

A total of 111 people sought treatment at hospitals as a result, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said yesterday, adding that 84 were given outpatient treatment.

You may want to start planning a holiday and wait till this blows over if you’re running an Indian rojak stall. But what about the folks running that stall in Geylang? We can be sure they won’t be in the mood to go on a holiday while they await judgement. Who or what could have been responsible for this deadly poisoning episode? We assume that no one of sound mind would deliberately poison the customers and ruin his own business. But one’s unhappy, about-to-be-fired assistant may have other things on his mind.

Not too long ago, a local entertainer started a minimart business in China. It was a family business at first, but the profits came in fast and furious. They built a big supermarket, employing more than 100 staff. One day, the health authorities acted on a tipoff and found a bottle of expired milk at the supermarket. They received a warning. But when they did a check, they discovered to their horror that the expired milk was not in their inventory. Someone had planted it there.

They decided to install some real and functioning CCTVs on the premises and make the customers deposit their bags at the entrance. For months, there was no incident. But the video tapes started piling up and customers gave plenty of negative comments on the need to deposit their bags at the entrance. But no sooner had they stopped these practices when the authorities raided again, finding yet another bottle of expired milk. They received a warning that the next bottle of expired milk will not be tolerated.

Just as the whole family was going crazy, they received a letter from someone offering his services to the supermarket, guaranteeing that there will not be any expired goods hanging around the supermarket if he is paid 50,000 rmb (made that figure up) a month.

They called the police, but the police told them that it was perfectly legal to write in to the supermarket, offering one’s services. There was no proof of blackmail. In the end, the family downsized their business and returned to operating a minimart run by members of the family.

In Nepal, many small domestic airlines have sprouted wings and grown into formidable competitors over the last few years. How did they manage to do that when the national airline had always monopolised the domestic routes? Simple. The owners of these small airlines bribed the staff at the national airline office to answer “fully booked” or “not possible” to any enquiry.

You don’t need to be a bungling CEO to bring a company to its knees. You only need to be someone who answers the phone.

by Dr. Chan