The hardest part is uploading the pictures, really.
In this series: Briyani, dishes from ‘big fry’, rojak love and luk-luk love a.k.a. “food from the back of a van”.
Nasi briyani and kari kambing. This is something I rarely eat, not because I don’t like it but I’m too weak to resist the call of maggi goreng whenever kari kambing is involved.
Was gettin kinda sick of the noodles stuff at the ‘big fry’ places, so this fried rice with sweet and sour pork and nyonya sotong really made my day.
Food from the back of a van should be a TV series. The famous rojak van. Still good but they’re getting seriously stingy with the deep-fried-ghost.
My earliest memory of steamboating was me and my cousin on a bike, she at 14 the cyclist, me about 8 or 9, the pembonceng in the back, bouncing down the potholed street to a luk luk van. I got seriously ill afterwards; from the eating, not the bouncing – that just hurt my ass.
Anyways, these days the luk luk business has modernised. There’s branding and the vans are placed strategically around the city – outside of bars, clubs, hawker stalls – and open late into the night. And they even offer the option of grilling or deep frying your meats on a stick (just try not to look into that pot of grease if you want to keep your appetite). The taiwanese sausage is my downfall…
