Just ask - What is Satay and satay club mentioned in your post in Singapore ?

Hi Anne Sy satay is quite similar to BBQ "baboy" selling on Philippine street minus the peanut sauce and Pipino or cucumber. In Singapore the Satay Club is long gone it was around for as long as I can remember, which is back to the mid seventies, and probably long before then. A large, roughly  square area off one of the main roads on the outskirts of the city centre, the place looked unprepossessing during the day, but came alive when the sun went down. Dimly lit by strings of warn or daylight low watt plain bulbs, with a few hurricane lamps as well, the place consisted of lots of tables, large and small, in a central area, even though it was  shut down ostensibly for failing hygiene regulations, it still quite vivid in my memory lane the place was surrounded by lots of individual vendors selling  food and drink. It was possible to get normal chinese-type food there, but the raison d' etre was, as the name points out, Satay. Lamb, beef, chicken, or a combination, chunks strung onto wooden skewers and grilled. Peanut sauce and chilli sauce in big bowls to dip the satays. Drinks in big chilled bottles. Now, what happened (this is almost unique, I think) was that, say, four of you would arrive, and be seated round a table. Drinks would arrive. You would order sometimes 50 to 100 satays, with satay sauce (peanut) and nippy sauce (chilli). This sounds a lot. However, off you would go, fill your boots and chill beers. If you ran out of satays, or sauce, more would arrive. Another 50, for instance. At the end of the meal, you would be charged only for the satays eaten. So you would get a bill for 135 satays, or whatever. The various different sorts were different prices. It actually ended up quite expensive, because you always ate far more than you would normally do.The place were be crowded with all walk of lifes but share the same common passion for satay that grilled on the spot. However, in Philippine I yet to encounter a restaurant selling satay yets , I heard it they a restaurant in greenbelt selling Singapore and Malaysia food if you have information do drop me an email, hope to visit it one day.

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Made in Philippine Ok la - 555 sardine "There is no food worse than the sardine nor an ass worse than a donkey" ?

The importance of the sardine was, and is so great that it was adopted in many proverbs,country and culture. During  my childhood day, I remembered sardine was bill as poor man food, it  once parts  of my army field camp ration like the proverb saying “There is no food worse than the sardine nor an ass worse than a donkey ”

However, it's high time society give  sardine their place and merit  in the world, the simple way in which we do it by eating with our hands and a piece of bread or we cooked sardine mixed it with Chinese "Mee Sua"  good for breakfast ,lunch or dinner. The are many brand of sardine in the market 555 happen to be favorite, like the brand name implied when you open the can they were 5 sardine inside, the sauce is thick and spicy hot, do not have those strong pungent smell like some other brand. No longer is a poor man food, sardine is parts of chef menu ,in Singapore big name franchise like Old Chang Kee had incorporated curry puff sardine in their chain of store. Sardine are rich in minerals can be cooked and consumed in variety of ways like straight out of a canned,grilled,pickled,smoke just to name a few. Made in Philippine Ok la