Asian groceries

Last friday, after the thumb therapy session, I drove to the Far East Oriental Market at Whitehall. It is the nearest asian grocery store to where I live. I drove along the very busy U.S. 22 Highway. I was so proud of myself that day. I managed to merge onto that highway, took a different route that’s totally new to me to get home, got lost, drove into Burger King parking lot, looked at map, then use another road to get home

It used to be very inconvenient to get to the asian grocery store. I either have to get rides from friends or take 2 buses to get there. I’ve even taken buses to get there in the winter, wearing a down jacket, standing alongside the road at the bus-stop with bags of groceries. So being able to drive there to buy stuff is quite a milestone for me!

Here’s a picture of the things I bought that day. I forgot to include a packet of frozen dumplings and a packet of instant santan powder in the photo. Listed are the things I bought and the price.

Silken tofu (2 blocks) - $1.19 each
Oyster sauce - $1.99
Chili beancurd (foo-yue) - $1.49
Frozen pork, leek, shrimp dumpling - $3.99
Yellow curry paste in can - $0.89
Green curry paste in can - $0.89
Thin rice noodle (beehoon) - $1.49
Chicken stock powder - $2.99
Tom yam paste - $1.39
Mung been thread (toong-fun) - $1.99
Instant santan powder - $0.69
Flat rice noodle (koay-teow) - $1.09
Korean instant noodle (u-dong flavor) - $0.69
5lb thai jasmine rice - $3.99
Century egg (6-in-a-box) - $1.89
Cooked salted egg (6-in-a-box) - $2.59
Bittergourd (foo-kua) - $1.09
Cili padi (a handful) - $0.36
TOTAL= $31.88

I made chicken, century egg, and salted egg porridge yesterday. I ate it with some chili beancurd

Eagles merchandise

And of course, there’s the merchandise tent. An authentic football jersey cost $270!

Real water boys

Seen the movie the Water Boy?
When I saw these water boys, I had to take a picture of them.

Eagles quarterbacks

I’m no football fan and have very limited knowledge about the sport. But I do know that the quarterbacks are the most “popular” players in the team. In other words, more people wear jerseys with their names on it. I assume the players wearing the red jerseys are quarterbacks. Hmmm..that sort of reminds me of the prefects at SGGS who also wear red as opposed to the other “regular” students. I just found out that the quarterbacks wear red to make them more visible to the other players so that the other players would be careful as to not injure the very important (hard to replace) quarterbacks during training sessions. Anyway, here’s a picture of the quarterbacks and one of them is the famous Donovan McNabb. Even I know his name!

Eagles in training

Every summer, the Philadelphia Eagles (NFL football team) comes to Lehigh for their training camp. On the last day of training camp, I took the trouble to go watch them in action. There were lots of fans and football players. The football field is right next to the running track where I run/walk.