More bagel fillings for you to buy and try, worldwide - and the bagel house in Singapore

Bagels, bagels. bagels for adults and children.

Healthier - with avocado.

Cinnamon and raisin.

The classic, popular smoked salmon with cream cheese on a poppy seed bagel

Three types of vegan crea cheese

Rainbow bagel. You could do this with food colouring, but I would prefer to use fruit and vegetables to have a least a little flavouring.

Christmas bagels

Bagel bites. Indulge but save on calories - so long as you (don't wold down several but) say to yourself, one, two, that will do.

The Salmon with added watercress. Or cheese.

Muslim area of Jerusalem. I love the heart shape.

Scr

Scrambled egg for yellow and contrasting mushrooms.

Salt beef is served on rye bread in B & K, in Edgware and Hatch End, London UK. But beef on a bagel would work well.

Contrasting light and dark bagels. You can have white and brown savoury. Or vanilla and chocolate.

Sesame seeds scattered on bagels.

White fish on bagels in Iceland.

Bagel chips. to make them even crunchier, and worse for dieters - leaving more for the non dieters.

Egg yolk in the centre of the breakfast bagel. In the centre of the sandwich is the white meat of your choice, such as turkey 'ham', which you find in Muslim Malaysia, to satisfy the Christian customers and the Muslim Malay cooks.

Bagels were known in Poland and Ukraine back in the 1880s. Poland was a big place. Borders shifted around. So did people. A bagel was ring shaped bread which could be threaded on a string around your neck like a pendant, or sold by an itinerant vendor from a long pole or stick.

Bagels reached England. And the USA. In 1880s the assassination of a Russian leader led to a crackdown on Jews who took off west to safety or were forced out. They took with them their food. 

Now bagels are everywhere as a fast food.

Singapore Bagels

In Singapore, my husband spotted Yiddish on the Bagel House sign. It is not run by Jews but by two enterprising Chinese lads. That reminds me of the joke about the Chinese waiter speaking Yiddish to the customers in a Jewish restaurant in the East End of London. Eventually a customer goes up to the restaurant manager to compliment him on the language skills of the staff. "Your Chinese waiter speaks excellent Yiddish." The restaurant manager replies, "Sh, don't tell him. He thinks he's speaking English."

I shall report on one of their bagels in my next post.

They abbreviate Lorong to Lor. Lorong is Malay for alley, lane, smallest road or way. (A Jalan is a bigger road.) Besar is big. Kecil is small.

Holland Village

170 Lorong Liput

Holland Village

Singapore

Open 8- 4 or sellout time on weekdays, slightly later, sleep in at weekends, 9 to 4 or sellout time.

Amusing quotations

https://twomenbagels.com/The-Team

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ring-shaped_breads#/media/File:Burgas-Ethnographic-museum-christmas-breads.jpg

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Angela Lansbury is Vice President Public Relations of Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters club which trains speakers and leaders.

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