Hello there!

Hello there, nice to see you on OKC's blog.

OKC apologises for not blogging much recently. She has been away on a business trip, you see - first to London, then to New York.

In fact, London was where she found me during a John Lewis sale. I am a lot more value-for-money compared to my Singapore cousins. Maybe that's why OKC was crazy enough to lug me halfway around the world from London, to New York and then home to Singapore.

She also bought a cute little plate from New York, with all the landmarks of The City printed along the skirting of the plate.

We are both happily resting in her kitchen now.

OKC sends her apologises and says she'd be blogging again soon.

Take care now,
Blue Cast Iron Pot

Irritated at work

I wish I'm the sort of person who doesn't get affected by what happens at work, but I am.

I don't get as much affected by stress from the workload.. but there are people that one deals with at work that... to put in a nice way, I wouldn't want be friends with outside of work.

Unfortunately, the world is made up of all kinds of character and one just has to continue to deal with the less pleasant ones.

Today, I'm really irritated by some people at work. Brrrr! It's not easy indeed to deal with both difficult and volumous work AND nasty people!

Thankfully, this blog is an outlet for me to express my frustrations! Reading about the beautiful plants and flowers in the gardens of my fellow bloggers also make me feel that much better.

My own balcony has too either too hot.. or too wet to be a nice place to spend too much time in recently.

Nothing works like a glass of starfruit tea to cool one down! 

I wish I have a glass in front of me now!

Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice

What I like most about Tian Tian - the rice!

Tian Tian sells one of the best Hainanese chicken rice in Singapore. There are many good chicken rice places in Singapore, but I think Tian Tian really nailed the rice. The original store is located at Maxwell Market. They open at around 11am and close by 7pm. For those who don't work near Maxwell Market, you have to time your visit properly or else join the long queues during weekends.

All that, plus the heat at Maxwell market, makes it too difficult for me to enjoy the chicken rice properly.

So it's rather good news for me now that they have a store at Joo Chiat! I've known it for quite a while, but haven't had the opportunity to try it out. The chicken rice is as good as the one at Maxwell market and the shop is air-conditioned. So this will be my preferred Tian Tian outlet.

They also work longer hours at this outlet - 10:30am to 9:30pm, Tuesday to Sunday.

Tian Tian Chicken Rice
443 Joo Chiat Road
Singapore 427656
http://www.tiantianchickenrice.com/

The chicken is nice and succulent, like many good chicken rice places in SG

Sweet Potato leaves with sambal chilli - spicy and good