26 Apr, 2011
You can say this is the end of it. Finally, somewhere which stops and screams you from taking photos. So imagine yourself with a plate of hot rice, fried, against the lime-green melamine lookalike table. Every bit looks tempting and perfectly fine, until you notice the rice grains coated in a thin green colouring.
Green Tea Fried Rice (SGD 3.30)
Yes, it is green tea fried rice. Also to note there are the usual carrots, peas, corn and char siew. The green tea must have been a salty paste, lathered over the rice when stir-fried, causing them to turn a leafy green and a strong scent of jasmine over to you when the plate is ready. With the smell, yet the taste is ordinary like fried rice, every grain firm and distinct with a savoury smoky flavour, well-balanced with the toppings. You can't really taste the green tea, it only comes to you as a bitter aftertaste after you finish your meal, the taste of mints or herbs.
P.S. And I am not going to say where it is, either. Green tea has come to us in all fashion and assemblages until we forget what it really looks like/is, until it touches on the very mundane on us such as fried rice. There is also green tea salad, or green tea sold elsewhere. All this remind us that before green tea was green, or green, it was a paste. Yes, the paste which does wonders.
