Tingkat Tingkat

Posted by spots (Singapore, Singapore) on 19 September 2005 in Food & Cuisine and Portfolio.

Being a Stay-at-home-Mum (SAHM) that has an infant permanently attached to her presents problems of a very basic kind. For example, while I'm busy making sure my son is well-fed every 3-3.5 hours, how am I going to settle my own lunch & dinner? I have no time to cook, or even if I were able to squeeze in the time to cook, buying groceries is inconvenient, nay virtually impossible, because I'd have to lug little Daniel about (and he's so fragile, he can't even hold his neck up yet!)

So Husband & I decided to try this "tingkat" catering service. Basically, meals are delivered to your doorstep in tall metal containers (called tingkats). You can order 4 dishes or 3 dishes + 1 soup; and the meals are different every day for a fairly long time, so you don't get tired of the same food over and over again.

Here is a pic of our very first tingkat meal, which we received today.

The verdict? Well, it certainly wasn't gourmet cuisine, but it was decent (not too oily, tasty and fresh). Thank God for tingkat catering - otherwise poor mums like me would be starving to death (or subject to oily hawker food every day!) YAY.