Love for Cheese

I don’t know how long I’ve had my fascination with cheese.  I’m lactose intolerant but my body’s immune to cheese.  I have my favorites of course, like the gruyere, gorgonzola, mascarpone, and goat’s cheese.  I try to include them in as many dishes if I could.  When I eat out, I try to persuade my friends to go Italian so that I can have my cheese fix.

That’s why even though I’m a sucker for my Singaporean Chili Crab and Hainanese Chicken rice, I still go out and have my Italian as much as I can.  Pizza’s always on top of my list.  The four-cheese pizza is what I usually order.  My friends think that it’s too simple for their palate, because it’s just a combination of four cheeses, nothing really special.  But for me, a simple dish is not always simple.  To create a combination of four cheeses and blend well with one another, that’s something.

In Singapore, there are many pizza places to go to.  Actually, many Italian restaurants have cropped up around the busy streets of Singapore.  Wherever you are, you can always find a good place to eat your pizza or even your pasta for that matter.

I was doing errands yesterday and I decided to grab a quick bite since its past 12nn already.  I wanted to dine al fresco but I was just by myself so I decided to eat inside.  I ordered seafood pizza and a salad.  I didn’t want to eat heavy because I wasn’t done with my errands.

Don’t you just love restaurants when they give you unlimited parmesan cheese for your salad?  I drowned mine with parmesan cheese and it was really good.  Even though there were big chunks of avocado and it was swimming in parmesan, I didn’t feel that my salad was too rich.  Advice, you can always ask your waiter to put the dressing on the side.  Therefore, you have control of how much dressing you put in your salad.

The pizza was good, nothing spectacular about it.  I had better.  The cheese totally melted on the sauce. Maybe because the cheese wasn’t the star of the dish, but the assortment of seafood they put on it.  Nevertheless, I ate it because I was already satisfied with the salad.
Italian food in Singapore is here to stay.  I just hope that on my next meal, I won’t have to eat some average tasting pizza.