Roti John

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O.T., MISC.
  
So I wake up, take a shower, and I'm about to go to work when the phone 
rings. It's Victory Memorial Hospital getting back to me. And I say to them, a man 
is 91 years old, he lives in a nursing home, he's been to this hospital six 
times, and nobody figures out that he might die and have to be buried? He left 
no instructions to anyone?
  
The hospital had no information at all, just my phone number.
  
He spent all this time on poetry, and he couldn't have helped me out here? 
This will have to go to the courts for six months just to bury him?
  
So I go to work. The clock on the wall has the wrong time. Fall back. Over a 
week ago. No one changes the clocks.
  
Then, I use the date/time stamp. It says November 9th. I get that changed. 
The time was off and didn't move, but that can't be changed.
  
I usually get assigned to the coffin room, a small, illegal area without 
windows or emergency exits or fresh air. There is a fan. I notice that it's now 
broken. The room is sweltering from the heat system. You wouldn't want a dog to 
sit in a place like this for ten minutes. "There's no other fan," I'm told. 
"You don't need a fan. Welcome back!"
  
The computer asks me to change three passwords. The city's awful computer 
system (parking tickets is about as simple as things come) breaks down. I re-boot 
the system. It breaks down again. I re-boot the system. It breaks down again. 
This happens all day.
  
"Volume has picked up since after the election," I'm told. "We're getting out 
of here after 7 p.m. again." Which means 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m., with a half-hour 
lunch.
  
"It's good you didn't quit. Your mother would want to see you do this. Did 
you have a nice vacation?"
    
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Roti John... Roti John. ... John! So my father named this dish Roti John!" 
explained Norhayati,
daughter of Shukor, who created Roti John in the 1970s. ... 
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The foreigners would always ask him to fry up an onion omelette, which they 
would eat with a side order of bread. They ate so much of it, and so often, 
that Shunkor decided to create a "two-in-one" dish for them. He added the bread 
as the omelette was cooking, and the result was a delicious omelette-topped 
slab of French bread, which came with a special-chilli sauce.
  
It went down well with the foreign clientele, and the locals, and Shukor 
needed a name for it. Since it had been created for foreigners, it was named after 
them too.
    
"In those days, we addressed all ang mohs (foreigners) as John! John! So my 
father named this dish Roti John!" explained Norhayati, daughter of Shukor, who 
created Roti John in the 1970s.And the rest, as they say, is history.    
  
MALAY FOOD
... On the other hand, Roti John (John’s Bread) was said to have been 
inspired by a
homesick tourist named John who, so the story goes, was in search of a ... 
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In Singapore, the highlight of Malay cuisine is Satay, thought by some to 
have been derived from the Arab ‘kebah’ but with a character all its own. Satay 
has even spawned two Chinese versions: Satay Chelop and Nonya Pork Satay as 
well as the hawker dish Satay Bee Hoon. 
  
On the other hand, Roti John (John’s Bread) was said to have been inspired by 
a homesick tourist named John who, so the story goes, was in search of a 
sandwich. a helpful hawker sliced up a loaf of French bread, clapped in a mixture 
of minced mutton and onion and dipped the whole in beaten egg which he fried 
until crisp. If the tourist named John was bemused, locals took to Roti John 
and it is now a staple at Muslim food stalls. It is more likely, however, that 
Roti John is an adaptation of Murtabak, an Indian Muslim dish which is the 
Asian answer to Italian pizza. 

Loca Favourities
... Roti John A local Malay delight, Roti John is made by halving long bread 
then spreading
eggs and cooked delectable minced mutton over the two halves before ... 
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... They're as delicious as those you'll find in established fast food 
outlets.
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A City for the Senses
... Rumor had it that the adjoining Taman Serasi Food Center, a collection of 
stalls
famous for roti john (crisp egg, onion and minced lamb omelets with chile 
sauce ... 
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Singapore unofficial food ...Mee Goreng
... Now if anyone has a good recipe for Roti John or 'John Bread' please send 
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me, its my next big craving! Good Luck Jay. Contributed by - Jay ... 
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... Prawn Noodle: Yi Sheng at Hawker Center next to Safra Bukit Merah behind 
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Roti John: Shukor stall No. 9 Taman Serasi Food Center. ... 
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... to both tourists and locals. Other types of food worth trying are Mee 
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... You’d be spoilt for choice from the satay (barbequed skewered meat on 
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From: Sandra (alexsandra28 at Yyahoo.com)
Subject: Roti John .. minced meat on bread 
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Newsgroups: uk.food+drink.indian
Date: 2002-01-15 03:27:21 PST 
    
Good day to all,
  
I searched for this recipe, found it in malay and translated it.  It'scalled 
Roti John.  There are many stories behind the name of this dish,basically how 
a westerner named John missed his bread with burgers andtrying to adapt to an 
asian country, created Roti John.  Roti John existedway before MacDonalds and 
other fast food centres came into existence in ourcountry.This simple bread 
and minced meat is normally made in Indian stalls makingRoti Prata or in malay 
stalls.
  
Roti John (minced meat on french loaf)
Ingredients
500 gm. minced meat
2 eggs, beaten
1 french loaf, divide into 2, sliced thru
salt to taste
curry powder
chilli powder
turmeric powder
1 big onion, chopped finely
  
(Note:  IMO, 500 gm minced meat is a bit too much).
  
Method:
In a heated wok, add minced meat, chopped onion, curry, chilly and 
tumericpowder.  Cook it dry.  Add salt to taste.
  
Onto the bread, on the white of the bread, spread beaten egg, then place 
thecooked minced meat mixture.
  
Place the bread face down on to a flat pan or griddle.  Press the bread 
downso every area is touching the griddle.  2 or 3 minutes later check whetherit's 
cooked.  If so, slide a flate spatula under the bread and transfer toplate, 
minced meat side facing up.
  
Garnish with salads and cucumber and a dash of tomato or chilli sauce.
  
Other variations:
Some people mix the cooked minced meat mixture, after it has cooled down,with 
the egg mixture.  Spreading it on sliced french loaf, then onto hotgriddle.  
Garnishing is the same.
  
I am a bit tired of cooking,  so I hope to make Roti John on of these 
nites.Hope you will enjoy this too,
Sandra

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I heard a version of the Roti John story: It was invented by a Malay
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Re: 100 best foods in Singapore
... Open till around 3am b.. Yes! Adam Road Hawker center is very much alive
and kicking. It also serves one of the best ROTI JOHN in town! ... 
sg.marketplace - Oct 16, 2000 by ShiYing - View Thread (2 articles)