Flattered

I woked up early (9++am) this morning and went to the market to get the prawns, chicken, meat etc for the chinese new year eve's reunion dinner for doreamon's family & first day's lunch. First meal would be 6-10 people and the second meal would be about 20 people. On my first trip, I bought 2kg worth of "premium" prawns (1kg=S$25), one whole chicken for curry, 2 wings & 2 drumsticks, 1kg of pork for sweet and sour pork. Taking all the loots home, i began the preparation work for the food, trimming the prawns, washing the chicken again, cutting and marinating the pork.

After counting the prawns, I know this is a bit calculative but I learned this from my grandma. There is only 46 prawns in all for 2kg. which means each prawn is S$1.08. Expensive hor, but the main point is, there is NOT ENOUGH prawns for the whole family. Hehe, I already cook more than 10 for our private "food tasting", so left 36 only. I estimated (36-15=21, based on one person eat 1.5!!! Cannot be 21 prawns for 20 people hor.

So I went down to the market and buy two kg of prawns more, this time round, QUANTITY is more important than QUALITY. one kg only S$18. The stall uncle was so happy, that he packed my prawns in the plastic bag, then put all the stuff in a 美珍香肉干(barbuecue sweetmeat) PAPER BAG. Aiyoh.. make me so paiseh. I told the uncle "no need", but he still carry on. Actually I'm quite happy that I am given "better service" despite the paper bag is stained with a bit of dried vegetable; and i love the toughfulness of the stall uncle =)