Sliced Fish Soup & Noodles at The Ship at NEX

When we're all working-from-home, we've all but disappeared into our little worm-holes. Glad that J and I made it to a number of not-weekly face-to-face lunch date. Wooohooo. Okay she can likely make dinner, but I can't, so I don't even bother asking. I ask her out for lunch instead. 

Suju at Mandarin Gallery always works for us because there's always something decent on the menu. Negitoro-don or its delicious shogayaki teishoku are my go-to lunch favorites. Can't seem to deviate from those! Suju is a convenient venue if both of us are in town, otherwise, a Skype video lunch meet would be great.

I've been popping up to Serangoon for a bit, at that lunch timing, If I'm already running errands at the pharmacy and supermarket, then I might as well try asking J out for lunch too. I missed our IRL conversations. She was more than happy to make time to catch me for a few lunches lunch at NEX. I wanted to go to The Ship. I like its sliced fish soup and noodles (thick beehoon). Depending on my mood, I would either have it with milk or without.

That day, I wanted to have the Hawaiian grilled pork chops (which probably sounded better than it would taste), something different from the usual. But as luck would have it, it was a rainy day. Hahahah. Piping hot soup it was. There's something appetizing about dipping those fried slices of ikan toman into the little dish of soy sauce and chilli padi. It made for a super comforting meal.