I managed to hang out with my sister a couple of weeks ago.
I like my sister.
She understands my stupid humour and has much of the same…but it is more polite and less crass.
We are same-same-but-different.
Um, don’t think like that.
Gross.
The point is, I like her and her eating efforts. Although, on this certain trip, she disappointed me in her inability to finish her main. You see, she rarely is defeated by food. When she was in high school she could eat a whole family pizza on her own after school and come home and have 2 servings of dinner and still be 41kgs.
She got the metabolism, I got the lesbo-chic.
But after this dinner, she admitted that now, after eating a whole family pizza, she has to roll around on the floor for a while before she can eat only one serve of dinner.
How sad. She used to be such a legend.
We shared the Chai Tow Kway, which is a stir fried radish cake with eggs in a shrimp and soy sauce. I generally like the penang version which has a bit more heat to it and comes with a healthy lashing of just-cooked bean shoots, but this was pretty good. Licked with a healthy amount of wok hei, the caramelised chewiness against the soft pillows of radish made me smile on the inside and out.
My sister, despite the 39 degree heat of the day, ordered the seafood laksa, $15. As you can see, crazy amounts of prawns, scallops, calamari as well as tofu. I hear their laksa here is pretty rocking. My sister really can’t take heat, and said this had a lot of flavour and spice to it, which is why she had to give up and finish my dish.
Hainanese chicken rice set, $12. Way too much food, I gave up before I finished half the chicken. The rice has been cooked in the chicken broth and served with a chili vinegar. So good…and so…much…food.
Good thing my sister gave up on her heat and finished my dish.
But, naturally, my sister has to finish on dessert, which was a banana fritter. I didn’t have any, but I commented on how they should have arranged it to look like cock and balls.
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