When it comes to eating, it is a headache when members of the family prefer different food.

I eat any type of food - Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Malay, Western, Italian etc - but will not feel full unless I feed myself with at least a meal of rice per day. I especially love vegetables, fruits and seafood *yummy*.

Brendan is almost like me. He can accept any type of food but NO to sushi and meat with lots of bones.

He is a great lover of food and I am often taken aback by the huge amount that he can eat. Nowadays, we have to reserve a greater portion of food for him even when we are dining at the same table. I always appreciate the way he enjoys every food that we share at the restaurants.

Darren, however, is more choosy when it comes to food.

He eats only the porridge cooked by my parents and especially likes soup based food like noodles wth soup and rice with soup. Besides french fries, he does not really like other dry food.  However, he likes sushi, fruits and doesn’t mind burgers too!

We have to get him a meal of rice or noodles per day for him to feel satisfied with his daily dining.

As for Papa Ed, he can fill his empty stomach with any food and even junk food. While he can never understand why I have to go to the extent of finding a suitable eating place for our family over the weekend, I still insist that a nutrional diet is important and not merely a diet to fill our stomachs.  On weekdays, our daily meals are well-taken care of. Thanks to my dad who is the greatest cook!

[Haha, he is my best excuse not to enter the kitchen to cook  for my family.]

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So, an ideal place that will satisfy the different taste buds of all my family members is a restaurant that serves rice and soup. One of our favourite eating place is the SOUP RESTAURANT. With its many branches, it is not difficult to hop into the restaurants when we are out in the shopping malls.

[If you are wondering.....No. I am not doing an advertorial or publicity for this restaurant.]

Here, All of us get to fill our stomachs with rice and our family’s favourite “concentrated soup”!  So there are lotus roots soup, sharksfin melon soup and winter melon soup with soft bones, herbal chicken soup and others. Whatever the soup of the day, we love them all!

Brendan’s and Papa Ed’s favourite boneless chicken and ginger - Samsui Ginger Chicken.

We love these combinations.  Tofu Prawns (slightly spicy prawns, egg, tomato, chilli sauce gravy, tofu) with fried buns. The 3 of us love the buns dipped in the sauce while Darren loves the buns. The buns are simply irresistable when eaten hot. Yummy!

Vegetables….my all time favourite. The kids, however, prefer other vegetables (spinach) with lots of gravy (not served in this restaurant). Cos, Darren can drown his rice with gravy :)

Of course, there are other favourite dishes for us - like special handmade tofu (3 of us will usually “fight” for a bigger share of this crispy skin but extremely soft toufu), beansprouts, pork ribs, Home Town Fried Fish Belly, non-oily fried rice, steamed fish (sanyu) in special sauce, steamed minced pork and…..

[Haha, I was busy gobbling my food and busy replenishing everyone's bowls with soup that I did not have the chance to take the other photos everytime when I am there:)].

This is one restaurant where my family will walk away feeling full, contented and nutritional although we pay about S$60 - S$90 per meal.  It is also a restaurant where I don’t have to remind Darren to finish his food.  Here, he will not only finish his rice, he will ask for an additional serving too:)

So what is your experience, when it comes to eating with your family or little ones?

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