Foreign Nationals, Singapore

Favorite thing: This a warning in reverse to all you Singapore guys and gals.

Licorice is very a popular western confectionery made from a sweet root and is best known around the world as the English style Licorice Allsorts.

The Dutch are famous for their salted licorice and make it anything from mildly salted to extreme triple salted.

It is also added as flavouring for drinks such as sambuca and even some beers like Guinness.

When I first mentioned licorice to a curious imstress, it took me a few attempts to explain exactly what this liquorice is. I guess that "liquor" and "rice" in the same breath conjure up all sorts of strange possibilities.

To give imstress a new taste experience I brought some Darrell Lea Soft Eating Liquorice with me to Singapore for her to try.

I need to add that Darrell Lea liquorice is beautifully soft and contains such ingredients as prime Australian wheat flour, semi refined raw sugar, molasses, treacle, natural liquorice extract, glucose and a touch of triple refined pure aniseed oil.

From the look on imstress's face on trying this excellent quality licorice I deduced that it did not appeal to the Singapore palate.

For me, it was well worth the effort of attempting to educate a friendly local and to see that mystified look of wonder on her face.