Thursday night, after work and after a few drinks with colleagues, I ended up at Kyo Club, a nice trendy nightclub in Downtown Singapore. It was a good night. I left around 3am (at the closing) and randomly met a group of young Filipinos just outside the club.

We had a nice chat and since we were all hungry we went to grab some food. Not any kind of food though, no, we went for a Bak Kut Tek at that place…

Bak Kut Tek is a Chinese soup very popular in Malaysia and Singapore. For me it was more like in UK after a good night, you’ll go for some chicken and chips, in France for a kebab, or in the U.S. for a pizza. No, here, I went for my Bak Kut Tek haha…

OK, it’s a pretty basic meal; at its simplest like I had, it consisted of meaty pork ribs simmered in a soup containing pepper and garlic, and some other stuff. In separate cups, you can see some steamy rice and the usual chilli padi sauce.

It was good and I really liked it. I think the one I had was pretty simple, I heard there are different sorts of Bak Kut Tek. Surely, I’ll have a chance later to taste some others recipes of the meal.

Anyway, it was one of those unplanned night; you know the real definition of living the moment and enjoying it. Even more so with the folks I was with…

On the 1st row from the left Carol, Eric, and Gail; behind from the left Ella, Patrice, Kim, and a stranger!

All young working professionals in Singapore from Manila, the Philippines!