PRCs

at lunch, i gave the PRC cashier an SG50 note, and he immediately huddled with his PRC friend, fascinating over it. turned out they're collectors. three of us had a nice chat about it, before they returned it to me. at dinner, the ban mian stall owned by a couple of kind PRCs packed me a huge bowl of soup even though i dabao dry ban mian, a small but significant act. i love the Chinese lah. they get a bad rep.

Star for Tai Hwa

in my earlier review of Bib Gourmand, i took issue with them "ignoring the quintessential Singaporean dish". credit to them now for unveiling bachor mee like a finale. Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle is hands down among the most transcendent hawker food i've experienced. experienced not tasted because from queuing to witnessing Mr Tang the artist to eating it -- is a journey. elsewhere, as expected, many of the stars went to restaurants whose foreign chefs are starred. i'm particularly happy for Corner House, Candlenut and Forest.

Euro 2016 final

So a striker wins the tournament for the team that played without a natural striker. It was almost Gignac, then it was Eder -- two completely irrelevant strikers. Portugal succeeded cos Santos dared to undo his entire lineup. France failed cos... France didn't fail. Their fault was they played like favourites and let Portugal capitalise. Bad France turned up, so move on. We knew Griezmann and Payet can disappear. We knew Giroud isn't great. Pogba's performance falls on Deschamps -- if you want Pogba to sit deep, you'll get a very good Sissoko; if you use Kante instead, you'll get a world-class Pogba. Eat your words, those who'd written Ronaldo's obituary. Ronaldo is now officially more decorated than Messi and Eusebio.

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