Local Pastries

This morning's breakfast was a refreshing change from bread and spread, courtesy of Mum and Dad's post-Ikea divergence to the ubiquitous traditional local bakery. I had my Lipton Tea, as usual, with these delectable pastries:

Gai Dan Gao
This was disappointing though. They looked delicious for sure but turned tasting like chewy sugared yellow dough.

Mah Ti Su
These were brilliant! Crisp, baked shell that flaked at the bite concealed an adequately sweet and sticky brown sugar paste.

Pong Piah
Another one to shout about, since it was pretty much just an enlarged version of the very delicious Mah Ti Su.

Mum and Dad also brought home these peanut candies, which aren't exactly meant for breakfast, but I simply couldn't resist them.

Imagine biting through a sweetened peanut casing to get to the soft and fluffy peanut powder within.

Mum and Dad probably don't know about my blog but I must say a big THANK YOU! to them for such a lovely breakfast.

However! There is a heavy price to pay for Sweet Indulgence and I set off jogging up Mount Faber again this afternoon. For me, every jog must be preceded by this routine whereby I sms Mum to say I'm off jogging, and she will always reply me with something along the lines of a prayer for protection. Today, she responded with such a witty one-liner that she really should get an award, a 'Quote of the Day' type of thing for it. Here goes:

Me: Going Jogging
Mum: OK, the LORD jogs with u.

Now, I wonder if the LORD wears Nike too?

After I returned home from my jog with the LORD, Jie surprised me with a Random Cat pic she took near the rubbish chute (thank you jie!).

This picture had put an end to my nagging suspicion that the Random Cat column somehow scared all the cats away from me.