kaya toast
I was on my way to work this morning from my sister's place in Bedok. Its the sort of typical residential area with the typical hustle and bustle of the market scene. Housewives and aunties carrying plastic bags of their vegetables and such, shopowners setting up stalls, even the pasar malam was open!! I walked pass the food center and wondered if I could spare some time for kaya toast with soft boiled egg. It has been a long time since I'd enjoyed this 'traditional' breakfast set. when i was a kid, my dad would bring me to this coffee shop near Kellog Convent for kaya toast and tea before sending me to school in the mornings ... when i was working near Raffles Place, there was this really run-down looking coffee shop (opposite Speaker's Corner) which makes such yummy kaya toasts -- a slit was made in the bread and filled with a sliver of butter and kaya before it was toasted (ok it wasn't the traditional grilled sort but still good). That entire shop house was torn down a about a year later!! The best i had, could remember is the one at Killiney road. I've not been there in years... wonder if its still good. i mean, it takes a lot of effort to wake up that early on a weekend and go all the way to town for that!! Haha.. maybe I will...Anyway, I was tempted to stop by for some of it this morning which I did. I mean it wasn't like great stuff, but good enough. At least the bread was toasted enough to be warm and crispy on the outsite and still tastes/feels like bread when you bite into it. That 'doughy' chewy feeling. The best part was when some melted butter dripped out of it!! Haha.. thats it! Butter, as fattening, as sinful as it is, is sooo good. (why bother with margarine when there's barely any taste to it? Sometimes, i rather go without it)
Soft boiled egg was just erm, egg. I could never get it the way i like them -- all the whites have to be white (i don't like those transparent stuff especially near the yolk) and semi soft (not hard). The one I had this morning was ok i guess. Not perfect but edible.
Tea = teh, teh-o, teh-si, teh-sua... whatever, i ordered teh-si which i think means just milk without the sugar? anyway it tasted more like milk than tea. That was disappointing but wasn't enough to dampen my impression of the kaya toast!
I'm going a little off tangent here. This is suppose to be a solely kaya entry.. anyway about Kaya, I'm wondering if its a typical Singapore thing but then, Malaysia has it too. Sometimes, its hard to have something thats really singapore -- afterall we were once part of malaysia. I'm googling on the origins of Kaya... but... there's really almost nothing about it after going through some of the stuff...
I think the ones served at S11 foodcourts is just wierd. I don't like YaKun's toast cos they are over toasted -- its over toasted, therefore too dry, I might as well eat biscuits! SOme people love YaKun for that very reason though. Someone once commented that I must be a very fussy eater to be make such a fuss out of kaya. I can eat most kaya, and i can tell you what's wrong with it or why i think its not 'perfect'. But I'm not fussy because I still eat it.
Next... I will talk about Roti Prata!!! oh well... maybe not.
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posted by eline @ 4:26 PM
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