I wish I could have a cooked breakfast this morning: hot, savoury and full of flavour. Chicken livers and spinach on toast. Or some jook, complete with all the condiments. That’s rice cooked in a lot of water so it’s a porridge, with lots of tasty accompaniments, like fried onions, peanuts, salted eggs, Chinese crullers. Long-term readers of this blog may have a vague recollection that I’ve mentioned jook before…
Or even better, that quintessential Malaysian breakfast, nasi lemak. This picture of a plateful of nasi lemak is from Eating Asia, one of my favourite food blogs. For those who are unfamiliar with nasi lemak, it is rice cooked in coconut milk, served with deep fried anchovies (those slivers you can see in the picture), some hard boiled egg, cucumber and usually a sambal of some sort. You can also get curries, chicken, or fish to accompany it.
Note to self: don’t look at food blogs before having breakfast (toast with strawberry jam is a poor substitute).
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Thanks for making me look at my kaya toast with great dissapointment. Hahah! 🙂
hmmm, not sure if I could manage that for breakfast but it looks good for lunch!
Had a lovely almond croissant yesterday for brekkers…. now that sure beats toast and vegemite. Although, sometimes toast and vege is delicious especially when you use white bread 😉
Then there is porridge and cream and brown sugar….
Mmmm, kaya toast. Yum. I know where you can get a decent porridge complete with pig’s blood. Lunchtime or later only unfortunately.
Oooo kaya! I haven’t had kaya in ages! Was yours homemade, or store bought, Mooiness?
Penny I think that’s why porridge always seems a bit boring to me – no cream!!
Skribe, porridge with pig’s blood?!? Where?? (Not that I’ve ever had any, actually!)
I made kaya in July:
Blog post 1 and blog post 2. The recipe is linked to the first post.
CW: Roasting Duck, Shop 8/ 375 William St, Northbridge. They’re a small cafe/restaurant. I haven’t had jook for a while but their menu has stayed consistent for the last five or so years.
Hmmm… can’t say I’m familiar with that restaurant, Skribe. Will have to check it out next time we’re in the area. And WOW you made your own kaya! That recipe looks good too, might have to try it next time I have a few spare hours… (Might have to succumb and buy some kaya this weekend though.)
My mom makes it but this was store bought. 🙂
How interesting, such savoury breakfast stuff! I never knew.
I don’t know much about ‘asian’ food at all. Only just discovered dim sum for example!
Only ‘foreign’ food we had where we lived in Holland was (westernized) chinese/indonesian, pizza and turkish food (shoarma). So I’m loving Perth!
Thanks for your comment on my weblog! I’m going to (try to) answer your question about kimchi now!
Simone
Hi Simone, thanks for your comment! I bet you’re going to have a fine time trying all the different cuisines we have here in Perth! How long were you in Holland?
It’s 12:35am as I read this post. It’s making me hungry. Darn.
Hi Ivan! Well I just had to have some nasi lemak today 🙂
Now I feel like having some chicken rice… (it never ends…)