Kiddie adventures in food

In an effort to get the kids away from their "regulars" of burgers and pizza, we have designated Friday evenings as food adventure night. The idea is on these evenings, we acquaint the children with other cuisines in an effort to broaden their food landscape. In the last few weeks, we have taken them for Turkish food, Japanese food that's not sushi. And last night, Friday, we took them for an Indian dinner. It was quite a ruse, because the kids have been resisting Indian food from the beginning - for reasons we are not quite clear about. So I simply didn't tell them where we were going. When we got there, we ordered according to their likes: fish tikka, butter chicken, dhal, nan bread, white rice and papadums - forgoing the curry and the vindaloo that T and I usually favour.

Today, after the Bishan run, we went to Graffiti Cafe for the Malaysian Pontian wanton mee. If I had to describe it, it's sort of like spaghetti. The noodles are in this tomato based sauce, topped with barbecue char shiew pork, three fried wantons, dark green qing tsai veggies, chicharon and chili with steaming bowl of wanton soup on the side. Yoda from the office introduced me to this, and I had taken T to previously. But I thought the kids might like it. How could they not like $2 pork noodles with fried wanton?

In the end, we asked them to rank which adventures they liked best, in order of preference:

K - Turkish, Japanese, Malaysian wanton mee, Indian
C- Japanese, Turkey, Indian, Malaysian wanton mee

Next week, we take them either to Boat Quay for Nasi Padang on banana leaves. Or to the Waterloo street hawker centre for Nasi Padang. Let the adventure continue...