gila makan's 4th Birthday

Today gila makan marks its 4th anniversary. I started this blog in December 2009 not knowing if it would last a year. It lasted four.

Over the years, I had visited and featured more than 230 makan places in Malaysia and abroad. It has become both a pleasure and a chore. I enjoy doing the blog. Each time we go to some place new, I would lug my camera along and move around taking shots of the place and the food. It has almost become a religion, that instead of graces, my sacrament would be photographing the food. I do get strange looks from other diners, why an old man like me would be so enthusiastic about the restaurants and the food.

I do not know how long more I will be able to sustain this blog. It can be quite exhausting. I have to look for new features, which is becoming more difficult. There may be thousands of restaurants and other eating places in the Klang Valley and other parts of the country that I could visit. But I have to find the time and the occasion to be there. And eating out is now so very expensive.

Let's see if there will be another 4 years.

Welcome

Welcome to my food blog.

Eating is such a passion for all of us. We talk food. We dream food. We exchange notes on good eating places. We look forward to lunch time. We plan on what to have for dinner. We buy recipe books. We teach each other how to prepare this dish or that. We love food programs on television. We have business meetings in restaurants. We love our mothers and our wives because they are such good cooks.

And we grow fat and make resolutions which we will never be able to achieve.

Happy eating.