We've made it an Event- The Parent and I- that from time to time we will go chill at various (late night) places around our 'hood.
I don't know exactly how many coffee shops it is that we've been to.
There's one that we walk twenty-five minutes to for sam lou hor fun and sweet sour pork rice because they're two of my favorites and this particular zichar stall does them well.
There's one on the other side of the 'hood that we have to walk fifteen minutes to because they serve up huge bowls of lor mee in very thick gravy.
We've been to a coffee shop near the park that's very popular for its carrot cake, fried hokkien mee and fried kuay teow.
And we have been to the Indian-Muslim shops because murtabak, nasi pattaya, kusy teow goreng and prata were the order of the day.
Amongst some of our favorites include the mee pok from this coffee shop downstairs our house because their portions are huge with great bits of minced pork, lots of little mushrooms and a wonderful huge piece of lettuce in each bowl.
Our meals aren't always 'support local', by the way. :)
We've gone to several Mala Xiang Guo places a couple of times because we get to throw all our favorite ingredients into a large bowl and have it all prepped together with crunchy peanuts for good measure.
We haven't tried others very much yet, but perhaps one day we might attempt the Thai.
There's a new Thai place opened not too far from the Mala Xiang Guo which seems to have good pad Thai and good green curry.
McDonalds is another place that we (on occasion) go for.
It's sometimes hard to imagine that The Parent would take a fancy to burgers and fries but nothing beats the fun of sharing out burgers, having a piece of fried chicken, picking on fries from the box, guzzling down a huge cup of Coke and dipping spoons into a cup of chocolate fudge sundae together.
We've shared moments, even during challenging seasons- all of which are very, very special to me.
May it be that there will be more.
May it be that we'll have them for a very long time.
And may it be that we'll be blessed the way we wish these precious moments to be.