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Extracted from 'London Eye - Dire 2012? Life's a festive feast with family and friends', Teresa Lim for The Straits Times, 2 Jan 2012

..'My husband's family has also embraced dim sum culture. Although introduced to its delights only relatively recently, his family has decided that from now on it will be a Christmas tradition..Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins will gather from Oxford and Kent and all parts of London for an annual reunion.

One is filled not only by those delicious dumplings but by the warm glow of being in the company of people one has known for a long time and who validate each other by just being there.

Singaporeans understand this of course, and do it all the time over rojak, or fish-head curry, chicken rice or nasi padang. As long as you can enjoy a meal with people in whom you are interested and for whom you have affection, all is very right with the world..'

Coincidentally, i just had dim sum for dinner on new year's day..not so typical since dim sum is not exactly a dinner-cuisine and not quite associated with new year(ang moh new year at least)..But as so accurately noted by the writer, the company is one key factor that makes an ordinary meal an extraordinary one..

And so..with the dim sum that i had on a small wooden table(with a sharp nail on the underside) barely 50cm away from the kerbside of a busy road..throw in a fading twilight on the horizon(behind those HDBs) for ambience..and not least of all, the people whom i was having the meal with..i would say - all is very right with my world..