Isaki Sashimi at Koji

The man's extended family popped into Malaysia, then to Singapore for a short visit. He fulfilled 'showing face' at one obligatory dinner. I skipped it, no surprises there. But I agreed to take his Aunt K out separately for another dinner. With the man along of course. She's quite a cool Aunt, still slightly flighty, but manageable. 

We took her to Koji Sushi, somewhere convenient for her to get there on her own, get some shopping done and come meet us for an easy dinner after. She's fairly adventurous when it comes to food, so she does okay with sashimi and sushi, but not too much. Koji offers plenty of cooked food options which aren't too weird for her. 

Tonight, she was perfectly fine with the grunt fish as sashimi (isaki / 伊佐木/いさき), and negitoro maki. But that's as much raw fish as she wanted. She did gamely chew the grunt fish head and tail and bits after they deep-fried it. So the rest the food were cooked and arrived in the form of beef tendon stew, oyster stew, grilled mushrooms, seared beef, baked eggplant. 

Aunt K was pleased to report that the meal was excellent and gave her stomach no trouble at all after. She likes her food, but in moderation, of course. She had plenty of fantastic sambal with everything in Malaysia, so she didn't need to get another sambal fix here. She was also going to get some chicken rice sorted over the next few days. 

Thai Street Noodles

I found my Thai noodle joint at International Plaza. LOL It's a hole-in-the-wall spot on the ground floor. There're only counter seats available and often, you're better off getting takeout than waiting for the seats. But the seats work for me after a sweaty gym session. It's predictably called 'Baan Thai Noodle'.

I like it because it's like a street stall, with air-conditioning. I assume hygiene wise, it's better since I have had no diarrhoea or anything so far. They have the usual noodle bowls of tom yum, chicken, Thai chilli, fishballs and pork. The menu is limited, but sufficient. You could add on ingredients of pork slices, liver or chicken drumstick and such. Choose between three kinds of noodles - Thai rice thin noodles (sen-lek), yellow thin noodles (ba-mee) or instant noodles (mama-mee).

I like its dry fishball noodles (using sen-lek), and adding pork slices and minced pork to it. That's a happy lunch. It has pretty low nutritional value, but it tastes absolutely satisfying. I generally like my noodles as some form of thin kway-teow dry (think ba chor mee, Teochew fish ball noodles, the sorts), white-white with no weird ketchup, vinegar or dark soy. Hehh.

Baan Thai Noodle
10 Anson Road 
#01-73, International Plaza S079903

Lamb Chops from Really Long Ago

I found lamb chops in the freezer from... ... ... 2020. LOLOLOL WALAO. I was skeptical that they were even edible. But the pack was well sealed and it had stayed frozen for... ... ... four years. Hahahahaha. OMGWTFBBQ I couldn't stop laughing. Thawed them out anyway. They smelt fine actually. So I marinated them in yoghurt and curry powder with garlic and onions. Heh.  

There were baby spinach and white asparagus in the fridge. Perfect. Boiled up the asparagus. I kinda ditched the bottom part of the stems because the quality wasn't good enough. Only the tips would be nice. Lamb chops could just go on a bed of baby spinach. There were oddly three small potatoes sitting in a corner. So I sliced them into small chunks to place them under the lamb chops to sear. #ImpieCooks2024

There were only four lamb chops. They were more than enough. Lamb is fatty, so that should be eaten in moderation. I don't even feed the dog much lamb, not even raw. I usually skip the fatty bits on lamb chops. The man wanted more food. Dohhhhhh. Made a small batch of okra masala. Basmati rice wasn't difficult to prep. That added more than sufficient carbs and flavors to the meal. He liked this mish-mash dinner.