I am now obsessed with army stew. I ordered it yesterday for dinner. I used to eat that a lot with my baby cousin!! So the shopping centre near where I stay no longer has halal (😜) Korean. Wait. It does. It has the food court one. Oh yeah and 4fingers. And Jinjja. I don’t like the food court one cause it’s always watered down but still spicy la for my stomach. There’s some shopping arena near where I used to work with the watered down Korean food too. I would go to the food court though to get yong tau foo (my favourite!!). Then I would put thick bee hoon and choose tom yam soup and eat at my desk at work.
But the Jinjja army stew has tteokbokki.. 2 slices of luncheon.. maybe a hotdog.. yesterday for some reason it had beans… I don’t eat nuts or beans in general because I don’t like the taste or texture… though I am OK with hazelnut (noisette). I don’t think they have the beef version but I’ve never really looked carefully.
Anyway Michael if you are reading this please email me at myname.mydadsname@gmail.com I would like to talk to you.
I think that qualifies as comfort food for me. I like broths or clear soups. Like the drinkable type. The other time I was with L and we were having hot pot. We both like to sip on soups and broths. So it cannot be oily! Then she said when she used to live with a Malay woman the woman would make soup for them but she cooked with so much oil that L would just take some to put over her rice. She wouldn’t drink the soup. I could imagine. I like Malay food.
When I was a kid we went to Sumatra. I was maybe 8? So background is my mom was Javanese so whatever she cooked was Malay food by a Javanese woman haha! She once bought food with tempeh (the fermented soy) for me and I asked if I could give my boyfriend (non-Malay) cause I didn’t want to eat it before work and he was downstairs to take me to work. She said OK go for it. My bf ate everything including the tempeh. So after that when he called me (he lived in another country) they would speak on the phone lah. All because he ate tempeh and I didn’t. I don’t like it!!! Anyway if it sounds confusing. My former bf lived in another country. I was about to vacation in his country so he flew to Singapore to stay for a couple of days then we’d fly together to where he lived for Christmas. People always teased me he’s so white and pink and I just O_O and told them he’s a millionaire (he was and am sure still is) so they would shut up after they said you know how to find boyfriends. I don’t la! I just like to pick the ones with resources and who are foodies!! Cause I like to eat this and that.
So when we went to Sumatra I really liked the nasi goreng (fried rice) and I asked my mom why she never made it like that. It’s one of the reasons I don’t ever want children. It’s the shit they (including me!) say. My mom was shocked.. she’s like you know right Indonesian fried rice is kecap with kecap.. mine is with bumbu (spice mix). Now when I think back it reminds me of that Desperate Housewives episode where Bree Van de Kamp spent hours making ossobuco then her kids were telling her their friends had leftovers or those TV dinners.
I think food is food la. Whatever suits your fancy!
So I clipped some recipes. My cousin gave me hers for roti boyan. My cousin is the kind to cook her sambal for 4 hours. I can’t do that shit I think. Her food is always yummy. My birthday cake (same recipe since I was born) has always been made by her! A few days ago she said for Raya there will be rendang (I play cheat use the premix when I made that) and sambal goreng pengantin. It’s how we Malays (am pretty sure she is full Javanese though..) talk. Well how theyyy talk. I don’t talk like that. She’s basically saying my ass had better be there for Raya. I do go to my uncle’s house (my mom’s older brother) every year without fail but frankly since my dad died I am lazy to ‘celebrate’!! Hehe.
OK lah that’s all la for today I need to go downstairs to have some tea.
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