Motormouth From Ipoh – Asian Food & Travel Blog

Nasi Lemak; one of the most versatile dishes in Malaysia where you can have this for breakfast, lunch, dinner or even supper and it feels so right. Can we name this our National Dish already?

Pardon the awkward sounding title, like something out of those viral websites with continuous feeds of mind-blowingly catchy headlines but in return providing you with a rather blah story. If you have been on the social media circle long enough, you must know what I am talking about.

It might even scream corny/tacky … or worse, spam-my.

Yeah, the reason that I had to strip off this white brief of mine (and no, I am not on some private beach playing games) and wave them high up in the air is mainly owing to the deluge of spam comments flooding every single post of mine.

I must have been pretty complacent lately (or the past year maybe), but the spam comments run in the thousands. Really. So much for the anti-spam plugin. So here I am, apologizing to anyone whom had left your comments on the posts but got no replies from the lazy Motormouth.

I must have been too engrossed in deleting spam comments. Or just plain lethargic from the 6+ years of writing on Motormouth From Ipoh.

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Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice @ Maxwell Food Centre, Chinatown, Singapore – Voted as one of the best chicken rice on the island, with endorsements by local media and food critics, and even positive remarks from celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain

Back to work and having mid week blues? No fear. Let Motormouth cures that for you with another food story. In fact, this will nicely round up the Singapore Street Food post from two days back.

Singapore’s a country that’s rich with influences from all over the world; most notably due to the cross-cultural exchanges between the region and intensive modernization effort to transform the small island into a financial powerhouse respected worldwide.

The same applies to the local cuisine in Singapore; while there are numerous parties (mostly political clowns) staking claims over petty ownership of street foods (read this for a LOL moment, seriously), the winner in this fiasco I guess would be the spectators, ie: foodies like us. It’s relatively easy to draw conclusions based on our personal experiences with chicken rice, satay, laksa, nasi lemak and so forth; hearty street foods that we have grown accustomed with since we were kids.

For today, let’s look at Hainanese chicken rice; a rice and chicken dish that holds a special place in my heart; owing to the fact that my late grandfather used to run a chicken rice stall in Ipoh way before I was born.

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