the garden slug

when it cometh to thoup
we like to thay it with a lithp
we’re not quite thure how it thtarted
oh wait Chritthy-poo jutht farted
we never make thenthe but we think we’re oh-tho-crithp

Bad lispy poetry aside, our soups are made fresh daily, with fresh ingredients, by fresh-faced Young Slugs (and sometimes an Old Slug or two may get involved).

Got a photo or three of one of our thoupth? Submit it on this here mini food pr0n website.

Hurhur. So witty hor our title? We kill ourselves.

Anyhoo.

Stuff that came in the post today:

1) Some very lovely Christmas cards from our vendors, business associates and most importantly, SLUGPHILES. Out of which, this was unanimously voted as our favourite ^_^

Thank you belly, belly much Athan, Ashton and Autumn. You make us Old Slugs feel… um… old. ‘Coz we’ve been watching you GROW. Le sigh. And thank you Aaron and Alyson for supporting us through the years. It seems like you’ve been watching us grow too. *le sniff*

p/s: Autumn – D’you think you could get us a date with Elmo too…..? HEHE

2) A certificate for our used cooking oil recycling efforts.

We’ve reduced 1267.20 kg of our carbon footprint. 1267.20 kg hor. Dun play-play. We strive to reduce more next year.

Actually it’s a lot more than 1267.20 kg as quite a few of us Slugs cycle to work each day.

Sharon Slug cycles all the way from Siglap. (edit: actually not anymore because the pedal broke and she has yet to fix it since February 2011. This photo is from July 2010. Tsk, liar!)

Bonnie Slug cycles all the way from Chai Chee.

Havard Slug cycles ALLLLLLL the way from Whampoa! 45 minutes each way. Now THAT’s a boatload of reduced carbon footprint, yo.

If you’ve been following us long enough, you’ll notice most of our blog posts are completely pointless and we have an almost pathological tendency to digress. This one is no different.

3) A “life-sized” 3-dimensional s l u g !!!!!!11

The details are amazing.

Okay, technically this one didn’t come in the mail. It’s a lovely, generous gift from Victor of Zia Concept. Victor’s shop is just diagonally across the road from us and he’s been our neighbour for five years and counting now. Thanks Victor, we are beyond touched.

We tried to make it look, er, festive.

We don’t really know what to call “it”. Maybe we should have a naming contest?

Anyhoo.

The point we’re trying to make here is that we feel loved by y’all and we’re saving the planet. What more could a mere Slug ask for, right? Right.

We would like to wish y’all a Belly Happy Christmas and we’re looking forward to meeting the new year with youse too. We’re throwing youse a party on 4 January 2012, so watch this space for details coming soon.

* Good-looking “eat drink don’t think!” t-shirts available for sale at our Retail Therapy Shelf. Sizes XS-XL.
** Good-looking Slugs (ages 17-37) not available for sale, sorry.

The Garden Slug will be open all day on Tuesday (9/8/2011) from 9.00am to 10.00pm.

photo: strawberry layered shortcake w/ lemon whipped cream and balsamic candy bits ~by Jian Yun Slug

Jian Yun Slug’s dessert and our brick wall is about as red and white as we’ll get. No tacky, national-day related paraphernalia at our little shoppe, we promise.

Last year JY wrote an ode to pulled pork.

This year, while you celebrate with the latest iteration of the fanny pack song, say a little prayer and let the universe know your gratitude for being able to live in this peaceful, clean country where nobody bats an eye if two grown men hold hands on the street, buses run on time, and your daughter can return home safely from clubbing at 4a.m. in a cab all by herself without an ounce of fear in her heart.

Now, all we need are bicycle lanes.

And paternity leave.

And prisons that look like IKEA showrooms.

Then we’d be the most perfect, first-world country in Southeast Asia.

Oh wait. We are the only first-world country in Southeast Asia. Hmm.

O look! A kitten!

Meow-julah Singa-purrrr-a.

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Keep up with our weekly specials here at our Weekly Specials Page. We launch our specials every Friday evening.
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Business as usual from tomorrow (Wed 20/7/2011) from 10.00am.

This blog post is dedicated to Charley. Wish you didn’t use a fake e-mail so we could at least make contact.

Anyhoo.

We wanna thank some Slugphiles for inviting all of us to join you on what must’ve been an awesome last ride out of and back into Singapore on the KTM. Unfortunately/fortunately (depends how you look at it), we need about ten to eleven Slugs to run a single weekend shift these days, so we sent Sophia Slug as a Slug Representative HEHE. ‘Coz it was her off day

Gaggle of aunties @ KTM. L-R: Omma, Sookie Cookie, Sophia Slug, April, Nice Lady.

Sophia Slug sez:

“Pretty sad to see it go. I really do hope they are not planning to tear it down. It has some amazing wall murals / paintings from the 1910s.”

KTM food aunty

Don’t you love how some recognisable words are spelled in Malay.. like “ekspres” and “sentral”.

OK after this we go relaks one korner. Eh, actually no, kennot anyhow-anyhow relaks la. Got more blog posts to hammer out. Otherwise later people komplen again.

Meanwhile, if a blog post doesn’t get churned out for another month, we has many other online platforms that are regularly updated. Some weekly, and some almost daily. At the right column on this very page, under “find us on the internets” – we can be reached on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Posterous. You may also subscribe to our RSS feed so you may never miss another one of our riveting driveling blog posts again.

Just below the header, also on this very page, are some tabs that lead to different sections (a.k.a. ‘pages’) like the “About Us” section (second tab from the left) and our “Menu” section (first tab from the right, or sixth tab from the left).

Last but not least, there’s always good ol’ old skool e-mail. Ask us anything (we have a strong preference for random love missives) at justask@thegardenslug.com.

‘Till the next blog post. Relak ah, brudder.

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… more like we operate a straight-friendly place.

We did say we are coming out this week, didn’t we? More on this soon.

Yes we do have specials for you this week. But instead of doing the usual shock & rock (the world), we thought we’d strip down the cooking process and make it into a haphazard teaser of sorts. Is this what they call strip-tease? AHAHAHAHA I kill me. Ok nvm.

So it was rumoured that there might be a braised-mushroom-something-or-other coming up this weekend. Sophia Slug decided to, um, un-quash (what’s the opposite of quash?) the rumours and went shopping for ingredients, garnering her much praise and adoration from her 1-person fanbase.

The Garden Slug presents – “This Is How You Strip & Tease & Do Cookery Magic In A Tiny Slug Kitchen”

Is cookery a real word? Anyhoo.

In Sophia “Kaulitz” Slug’s korner: Slooooooooowly braising the porcini wine stock.

How slow is slooooooow, you might ask? Well, only two hours and fifty-five minutes to go! This is what technology is for. Do not, I repeat, do NOT offend the gods of technology for they have been very kind to us. Use technology responsibly: Always Set The Timer, yo.

Meanwhile, back in Joseph “Rain” Slug’s korner, he has some candied lemon cups, waiting to be filled with Tom Collins ice-cream. Have we told you Joseph Slug used to be a bartender? And Sharon Slug too? Did we just up their sexiness quotient by a few million points? Yeah. Moving on.

But wait! Candied lemon cups cannot be served all by their lonesome selves. (unless, of course, you bat your eyelashes and ask us nicely. You know we can’t refuse. If you haven’t any eyelashes then GROW SOME.) Where were we? Ah candied lemon cups. They be served together with… well, what do we have here. All I can say is it’s got pistachios k. Like, PUH-LEN-TY of pistachios.

And far in the other-other korner of the shop, where the air-cond is cold and the music is loud, is Louise “Toper” Slug doing her thang… sacrificing her sobriety for all you slugphiles, trying out beer after beer to select only the finest & most complementary booze for the week’s specials.

So there we have it. All stripped & teased out.

It took me about 55-minutes to write this drivel (yah, I TYPE SLOW, CAN?), so I’d say we have another couple hours to go before we can “out” the specials for the week.

Patience, my child. Patience. Now run along. See you in two hours.

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Teeny tiny help section (a.k.a. more useless information):
• If you enjoyed today’s drivel, you may be delighted to know we prattle away on a weekly basis here. You get to learn about the week’s specials too. And fart jokes. And Pope jokes. And then some.

• For the attention deficit, we (try to) contain our waffling to <140 characters on Twitter.

• There are only three countries in the world that have a bigger population than Facebookistan. So we applied for citizenship.

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But of course we have to start off with this one first. Veggies are good for you, hokay? Grow up.

Sharon Slug’s personal agenda to get everyone to bicycle more.

All wallpapers from motherland • shared by @blackawfee via Twitter

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