He explained, "If you took a girl to Teochew porridge for a dinner date, the girl will think, so quaint, so romantic and so economy, eating this hawker fare."

When in reality, it's hardly 'economy'. Teochew porridge may have been the working class person's meal in the old days (you know, when policemen wore shorts) but not today. For the $18 you paid for those four random Teochew dishes, and two bowls of porridge, you could have eaten in some swankier place with air-conditioning. But since the two of us are already married with kids, we don't need to impress our wives with overpriced Teochew porridge anymore.

You can still find affordable Teochew porridge, of course. I make sure I don't select the expensive items like Steamed Snow Fish. One stall once charged me $15 for it.

For that price, I expect the fish to have lucky numbers like a Luohan, and have the face of a Lindsay.

For that price, I want my Snow Fish to come with its own air-conditioning.

Read also these other features from mrbrown:
mrbrown and the broken internet
mrbrown goes to the NDP
mrbrown talks about Movies
mrbrown: A Bumblebee in my Bonnet