Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Tapas as Bite-sized Mickey Mouse Apartments

Lunching a few days back at the Pu Tien restaurant for Mother's day, the first dish was the quintessential cold dish with food samplings of interesting stuff. I shall not go into detail what those were, but little bite-sized morsels are often the starters or even the main course in many cuisines. I'm sure many of you would instantly think of Spanish tapas.

The trick is - if you're hungering for more yet want variety, tapas often do the trick. You get the fill, and you get the variety. Heck, you even get the choice. Choose what you want - when you want. Variety is great as a man without a choice is a dead man in a dead end.

That is the same reason why sales of MM apartments (or Mickey Mouse apartments - size of which are 500sf and below - as they are affectionately called) have continued to skyrocket. The magic word nowadays is 'low quantum' - nevermind if that meant 1600psf for a MM unit in Siglap. The absolute amount you can bite on, is still 500k! Developers (smart ones) will take heed and reconfigure the projects into more bite-sized quantum units. Even major condo grade projects can't resist including bite-sized MM units for the specu-vestors or maybe there is really too many lonely singles wanting to live on their own these days, what with the gradual westernization of asian culture. In any case, if you're hungry and have limited pocket depths, you will still have to eat. At least you can now choose something that won't give you indigestion.