“ I can do it k….” - Week 02

31st Mar (Mon)

Dropped by OTH otw to mom’s and packed her lunch for her. I wanted to pack vegetarian but …they had to close today 🫤. Really no choice of food for me until I saw this popiah rojak stall. Actually hor…. I could have walked over to the Malay stalls and see if any is opened, can eat lontong, but I didn’t think about it coz I had a girl who keeps yakking on what food she should order/ very long queue / also craving for xxx until I was so giddy. 

The sign here is so weird - vegetarian rojak. Isn’t all the ingredients in rojak non-meat? So what’s the difference? I asked the lady if the vegetarian rojak meant the same sauce or a different vegetarian sauce. She was damn pissed with me, I guess that must have set that trigger in her and she lashed at me later. 

I had two rolls of rojak. I forgot to take a picture of the squashed almost flat popiah (all thanks to lil’ one, I have no idea how she helped me hold the popiah bag 😂). 

Anyway….. while placing my order the stall lady walked away when I told her I didn’t want garlic and chilli so wasn’t sure if she heard me. So when she was preparing the popiah she put garlic and I told her I didn’t want garlic. She looked up at me with a stern face and said “小姐不是你一个人的”. Wah! So rude! Yes, it’s probably wrong of me to assume that was mine but how was I supposed to know someone else also placed an order for popiah? If she had said “这不是你的薄饼。你 (point to it) 的是这个。” it definitely sounds more pleasant. Boycott that stall, not going to buy anything from her anymore. Doesn’t taste that nice, Qiji’s popiah is 10x better than hers. 

Pic taken from website just for this blog post

For dinner hubby packed some dishes for themselves, I steamed vegetables and chawanmushi together with the rice. 

Didn’t want to make my kitchen greasy, I heated the vegetables seasoning in a metal cup over the stove and poured to the steamed vegetables after it’s done. It’s vegetarian “oyster sauce” + sesame oil. I do have a bottle of this at home coz like how many times have I gone vegetarian 🤭? Ate 2 egg tofu and stuffed myself full with matcha warabimochi. 

1st Apr (Tuesday) 

Dosa n prata lunch. Hubby did make an effort by getting vegetarian dips or what nots but I only wanted the roti prata curry. Weird taste. Yucks! I’ve never ate dosa before. He was surprised I never ate this before. Muahaha! I go for cheaper food k, I don’t care what fermented thing made the dosa slightly more ex than my plain prata, give me prata anytime. I think I have to remind him next time how he managed to bribe me with siew mai while we were dating 🤣. Thank his lucky stars his wife don’t eat expensive food. 

Vegetarian kueh chap

2nd April (Wed)

Fried carrot cake for lunch which I forgot to take a picture

Dinner was mushroom aglio olio. Not that nice but ….. as long as I have something to fill up my tummy 

3rd Apr (Wed)

I’m running out of ideas on what to eat. Just ate some bread and eggs

Dinner

Mushroom 6” sandwich from Subway. Not filling should have ordered double. Wonder how did my friend ever feed her kids with just sandwich as a meal. They must have small stomach, or I must be a glutton. 

Mushroom soup 

I was still hungry so ate x2 popiah, 1 tapioca. 🤣 That means I don’t have anything for snacks tomorrow. 

4th April (Fri)

Lunch is fried bee hoon with just vegetables. 

Dinner is instant noodles. Just didn’t know what to eat anymore 

5th April (Sat)

Lunch is moi’s favourite vegetarian kuey chap

This dinner has got to be my most expensive vegetarian option to date. The girls wanted Sushiro (again) for their meal, I went my separate ways from them. Not much option, food court was packed, many places either had no meat or even if I went for no-meat the broth has meat. 

Mushroom cream pasta with vegan bacon bits. Very yummy. Have to say this coz it’s so bloody expensive. Strangely I was losing my appetite as I’ve been feeling so tired today, but had to finished up the whole plate coz it’s so expensive. 

6th April (Sun)

Horfun with vegetables 

Dinner : cleared the 2 small tofu in the fridge as today’s stated as the expiry date. I think I will be hungry later again but technically just feeling so so tired now. Am I falling sick again? 

Writers note : 

Seriously thinking I really do salute vegetarians. I’m sorry to say this but I miss my wanton noodles, shredded chicken noodles. So how they do it? Of course I know some are born into the family who are vegetarians it’s just second nature to them. Or some coz of their staunch religious belief they don’t miss meat. 

Break for next week ? before I continue another 2 more cycles. Ehh…. 3 cycles. Oops! I just remembered I’m supposed to pay back 2 more days which I may have incidentally ate animals.