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The New Lucky Claypot Rice stall Rice, Chicken, Pork Sausage, Liver Sausage, and Salted Fish cooked in a claypot Close up of Claypot Chicken Rice Black Chicken Soup with Wolfberries, Red Dates and Dang Qui Herb Braised Chicken Feet and Mushrooms In Dark Soya Sauce Soup of White Fungus and Pork Ribs Soup of Lotus Root, Red Dates and Pork Ribs Chicken Feet and Peanuts Soup Water Cress and Pork Ribs Soup Prices for Claypot Rice: S$10= US$8.00 In a previous post on this Blog, I wrote about the joys of eating out in Singapore: the variety, the quality, the convenience- and how I have not cooked at home for three years: See http://www.fu-lu-shou.net/2010/11/affordable-eating-out-increases.html . This post offers another example of affordable, good food in Singapore. The New Lucky Claypot Rice restaurant is situated in Clementi, one of the suburbs of government-built apartments in the west of the island. Claypot Rice is its specialty, and as you can see from the signboard in the top image, ...

Lunch: Yam Rice Lunch: Pig's Stomach with White Peppercorn Soup Lunch: Fried Fish and some kind of Squash or Gourd Dinner: Malay curried mutton, fried, egg, fish, vegetables with rice and Chili Would you believe that I have not cooked a meal at home in three years, ever since I came back from the United States? Though this sounds strange to Westerners and Americans, it is not uncommon to find working people in Hong Kong and Singapore who eat out for every meal-breakfast, lunch and dinner. One of the reasons is that people here and even more so in Hong Kong work long hours, and there is no time to cook. But the main reason is that eating out in Singapore and Hong Kong is relatively inexpensive. Inexpensive not only in the amount of dollars a meal costs, but inexpensive also in the sense of comparing the $ x time that need to be sacrificed if you need to cook at home. Time, that for some, could be spent earning more money or doing more business. If you don't count tasteless qu...