happy birthday in advance, vickie

hainanese chicken rice - lightly boiled chicken, rice cooked with rendered chicken fat, ginger, chicken stock and screwpine leaves. the chilli sauce, the rice, the chicken are all extremely important, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. it's like eating a damn castle and not the bricks themselves man, whatever that means.

sliced tomatoes with soy sauce, sesame oil and scallions, roasted carrots and parsnips by the only angmoh in the house, the usual accompanying sliced cucumber and tomatoes and, conan.