Comfort Food

With the weather wet and rainy at the moment and encouraged here in Burpple, I finally am able to sit down with a large bowl of 328 Katong Laksa ($7.50) Meeting a craving for schoolboy district childhood nostalgia among rain slick roads and sidewalks.
It's really the broth that makes the whole dish. The noodles just give it texture and serves as a medium to transfer delicious from bowl to mouth. The strips of fishcake mixed in among the noodles provide more bite as a contrast while the prawns are tasty meat bundles infusioned with broth and lovely to chew. But for me personally, it's the cockles that act as like surprises if explosive flavor that gels the dish together. I understand though if that is not for everyone.

All that aside, I am disappointed with the little chili packet they hand out to each bowl. Personally I could have gone for two just to give the disk more kick overall.

Sometimes I just need to crank out a quick lunch before diving back into work and just don't want to think too much about what to eat - the layman's lament.

For that I head nearby for a plate of this Sambal Fried Rice ($5). The characteristic that I like the most here is that the rice really has the texture of being fried: the grains are hard yet still some moisture inside, it's served piping hot with the steam inside rising out as you stir, the vegetables add crunch and each spoon has the mouthfeel of spiciness from the sambal. Just a bite and not overpowering.

All in all its a nice, quick mid-day pick-me-up before heading back into the grind.