I love roasted root veg and I can tolerate salad. How does your meal compare to what your neighbours are having?
Judging from the smell that wafts up from the apartment below ours, mine was infinitely better! Singaporeans like to use "belachan", a paste made from rotted shrimps, to the extent that it masks any other flavours.
Tonight the missus is making an Indonesian speciality, Daging Samur, which is beef stewed in soya sauce and other spices, but no chillis so it is very mild. I'd give you her recipe but she'd kill me...