The beauty of living in harmonious multi-racial and multi-cultural Singapore? Food! Glorious food! This is going to be a back to front blog post. See if you can decipher what the very creative and non-Chinese reader who does not eat cai png is trying to say (before reading AK's email he was responding to). Reader: "Typical AK reply. Heh. But I think I'd reply like you also once I've reached your level of understanding. ;) "It's like a person wanting to eat cai png and asking which liao is nice.  Maybe to me, eating liao A, B and C is recommended but to another person it  is not. "At the end of the day, it's the same outcome - the cai png still  gets you full. But did you overpay for the cai png or do you really see it  as an economic rice? ......