When the friends wanted to buy me my belated birthday meal, I asked for comfort food — steamboat — specifically a fish steamboat of sorts. I didn't want sushi and the likes. So we went to Nan Hua Chang Fish Steamboat (南華昌海鮮魚頭爐) at 462 Crawford Lane. Opted for a 6.30pm dinner so that we could all digest our food in peace before bedtime.
I wanted vegetables. So we had two nice plates of sambal sweet potato leaves and dragon chives done with garlic. We were told that the fried pork belly with fermented bean paste (南乳肉) was a must-eat, so we did that. I really liked it. I only eat pork belly done this way, not even very much as siew yoke. Added on clams (la-la), marmite pork ribs, and prawn paste chicken wings.
Since the steamboat was really served with only fish head and its bones without much meat, we added on extra protein of sliced pomfret. Then the table wanted fried yam. You know those that go into hotpot? I always assumed that they were just to flavor the soup. I didn't know that we could add more of it to it as a separate order. I had no idea that the table likes fried yam so much. We were struggling to remember what is yam called in Mandarin. Hahaha.
That was one happy meal. I'm glad it was nothing extravagant. This meal made my stomach happier than an overpriced sushi omakase set of which I can't control the types of fish served. The friends are really too kind to treat us to such a yummy dinner. As always, it's not about the 'buying of dinner'. It's about us all taking time out to sit down with one another for a chat. That is precious.
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