People love food in this country. If we were any shorter than the standard 5 foot 5, we should take off our shoes, grow hair on our feet and call ourselves Hobbits.
Asian Recipe is tucked in a row of shops bursting with kopitiams, restaurants and yuppie coffee places. Because of that, it doesn’t really stand out. It’s a small but pleasant little place with a good variety on the menu, many with an original twist; like the squid special (sotong) and the boneless chicken. The midin (indigenous fern) was pretty good too. Surprising, I found myself digging into the chicken feet salad. I don’t normally go for chicken feet. They look quite grotesque. I always imagine a bunch of sad little chickens limping about in crutches in some farm out in the sticks. It’s enough to turn one vegetarian. That aside, the buttered prawns are not too bad, though I’m not a fan of buttered anything in general.
What I really loved was the Tom Yam soup. It’s nowhere near spicy at all, but it’s so zesty, it could pucker one up well and good. By my second helping, I felt like a lemon, but I loved it.
Hmmm.. that hobbit chef is standing on a slab of balacan to gain 2 inches.
Comment by NeC — September 18, 2009 @ 11:23 am