Happy birthday Singapore!

May you enjoy constant prosperity and growth.

Now... I wonder what this year's National Day Parade was like...

I made a definite Singaporean iconic dish to mark the occasion. Fried Rice!!!

However, the perfect Fried Rice is not an easy feat. Until now, I have not truly mastered the art. Fried Rice to some may simply be the tossing of a few ingredients together with rice. You are so wrong! There is a definite skill to be learnt... even down to the strength of the fire. Did you know that Fried Rice HAS to be done over a gas stove with really high heat or the rice will turn gluggy?

When we were kids, we weren't really allowed chilli sauce or anything too spicy (God knows how I developed such a penchant for it!!!) so when our meal of Fried Rice with BBQ Pork and Peas were dished up, my brother and I would almost always 'enhance' it's flavour with tomato ketchup! Hahaha!

I know for a fact that he still does that. :o) I, on the other hand, have not but enjoy mine immensely with sambal belacan...