For the past weeks, I’ve read about the issue whether Singapore is really a foodie paradise. I’ve read in the newspaper about a man’s comment that those people who say that Singapore is a foodie paradise don’t know anything about food or uninformed. OUCHHH!!!!
Well, what is a paradise in the first place? According to my Little Oxford dictionary, paradise is a delightful place. So it goes that a foodie paradise is a delightful place for food lovers.
Is Singapore really a foodie paradise? It depends on the person who’s saying it for delight is a feeling that differs from person to person. That man may not see his own country as a foodie paradise but persons like me who may know nothing about food may see his country as a foodie paradise because of the simple truth that we have individual differences thus our differences in perception and in particular, tastes.
Well, considering that I really know nothing about food, then I should better change my blog title. Since I am delighted easily, can I name my blog, Pinay in Singapore, A Paradise Lost? Accch, not nice!!! How about if I change the title to Pinay in Singapore, an Almost Paradise? Wahhh, it is not nice also.
You know what, when I went to eat in Regency Mills, a shopping mall in Virginia, I discovered this Singapore eatery, which serves Singapore food of course. Seeing those Caucasians who queue for their orders, I felt proud, for Singapore food is an aspect of my everyday life here. The fact that the food over there was lagging behind as my uninformed palate dictated to me, I could just imagine then how those people would react once they tasted the real local food here.
Paradise is also a place where things that delight you are within your reach. I remember when we were in living in Hong Kong, Tuen Muen in particular, there were nights that we as a family wanted to go out to eat. Imagine us, being used in Singapore to being able to eat out even in the wee hours, and then there in HK where it was so difficult to find an open restaurant nearby at that holy hour. We almost always shouted: “bring us back to Singapore!!”
So STOP it people. For me, Singapore is still a foodie paradise. And my blog title remains the same.
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Paradise is where you find it and foodie paradise is where a foodie can find heaven. I wouldn't change your title. I like it and I agree that Singapore IS a foodie paradise. I wouldn't listen to naysayers if I were you. Some people are just snobs and can't see beyond the tips of their tongues. They don't know what their palates are missing by limiting what they are exposed to.
Thanks JMom!
I've heard about the saying that it is so hard to be recognized in your own place same as things in a place to be appreciated by its own people.How true! My daughter's friend, a Singaporean, went to Manila last week and she was so happy and amazed of the MRT, she even named Makati and mandaluyong. But during my last vacation, all I heard from people were the inefficeincy of the transport. Well, this is life!!
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