Yang has acquired some of my preferences for food after we have been married for about 22 months. *victory sign* :P That means we have more things in common and can enjoy the same things together.
When we started going out, he was a tea drinker. Earl grey + sugar + milk = Yang’s favourite hot beverage. Of late, he started to take a liking for white coffee too. Probably becos’ it keeps him perked up in the early morning at office. In any case, he started making coffee for both of us to bring to work every morning. It definitely tastes better than my usual 3-in-1. I’m the benefactor :)
He was not a big fan of laksa but the thing grew on him. After the latest sampling of the famous 328 Katong Laksa, he is a believer :) It wasn’t easy to convince him to go to Katong just to have that bowl of laksa. So I have to ‘ta bao’ (take away) for him. Hee hee.
Now this one is really a winner. Yang has been asking for Old Chang Kee curry puffs as snacks. He found them good when they were still warm. He is not as objectionable about eating them as before although I must add that he still thinks tip top curry puff is the best!
Well, the above leaves us with many different food preferences still. For example, Yang dislikes the aubergines and cauliflower but I simply love them, especially brinjal in green curries. He does not eat raw tomatoes of any varieties too. As for spices, ginger is not tolerated – hence, teh halia is one teh tarik he would never order. Oh ya, one other thing too, Yang doesn’t drink and his body has low tolerance for alcohol. :)
Still, it is nice to have him on my side a bit more now. Hee hee :P
Ling, the fact that you even got Yang to try 328 Katong laksa is a victory in itself. That he likes it is merely further reinforcement that our taste in laksa (yours and mine) is refined and highly developed. :) Ka-tong! Ka-tong! Ka-tong! Yang = one more converted to Katong laksa; next, the world!
Your post made me realize that throughout the ten-plus years of my own marriage, I can say my wife’s preferences and my own preferences have happily converged, too. She’s not nearly as picky and she once was and is open to trying to new things, unlike when I first met her. However, she steadfastly refuses to eat aubergines even now unless I batter and deep-fry them (thus subterfuge—I’m not even sure she knows their aubergines!). It’s a shame too, because this week at Tong’s Thai restaurant in Springfield (from where I just returned on a one-week business trip) I ate a wonderful dish called Thai aubergine chicken which consisted of various vegetable stir-fry in a light sauce and coupled with braised sweet aubergine chunks. The serving was huge, and the huge aubergine chunks held in all the stock in which they were braised. Mmm.
I share Yang’s intolerance toward alcohol, though I’ve come to find that his far exceeds my own. :)
haha, earl grey is my favourite too but i like it black. how u make coffee ha? u have a percolator at home? i have been toying w the idea of buying a cappuccino maker for chris as he likes iced cappuccino from starbucks. i don’t drink coffee at all so i only how to use 3-in-1s =P oh, i LOVE eggplant in green curry too!!!! =D so delicious. and i am havin katong laksa tomorrow… chris is ta pao-ing ^^
about intolerance toward alcohol… make it 4 (+chris n me) haha… but i am v tee kee cos i like sake n choya and will drink it still =P
matt, should get her to try tempura eggplant!!! WA!!!!! so nice ^^
I agree, Ann, a green curry without eggplant is barely a green curry. (I also like mine with a wedge or two of an unripened tomato if no eggplant is available), and I especially love green curry with pea aubergines; they literally burst in your mouth like a ripe berry. But alas, I can seemingly only indulge in green curries with pea aubergines in them in Thailand.
Eggplant tempura is something else I’ve tried, Ann. Everyone likes it until they find out what it is. :)
Hey, I like my green curry just fine… without eggplants LOL.:)
And Ann, Ling can drink albeit socially.:)
Me, all it takes is about a fifth of a glass to completely knock me right out.:)
Hi Matt,
I think the ‘unripen tomatoes’ were aubergines as well. After I told you what I thought they were, I read from a source that these were Thai eggplants. See the photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/sundaynitedinner/1254858962/in/set-72157601709198144/
So sorry about the misinformation!
Alamak! Another OCK convert. Tip top still the best!
Have I tried the Tip Top curry puffs? Yang? Ling? I can’t remember!
I don’t think you did; we bought you the OCK ones.:)
the thai eggplants are the tiny spherical ones. nice nice. that time in nara japan, i had this baked jap eggplant. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!