After walking in the drizzle for about 5 minutes, decided to pop into the Peninsula Plaza basement, which had developed a reputation as a kind of Burmese food haven. This place looked the most inviting (and wallet-friendly) of all the basement eateries:
The food in the glass shelf looked exactly like what you'd find in 菜饭 stalls, and have probably been left there for the whole day. No thanks. Outside, they had only one item in their menu file, the National Dish of Burma - the Mohinga (sounds a bit african):
It's the National Dish! Of course I had to get it:
According to Wikipedia, Mohinga is rice vermicelli in fish soup [and] usually eaten as breakfast." Imagine oyster mee sua but less viscous and salty, mee siam but not spicy, fish porridge but with vermicelli instead of porridge, and you get something like Mohinga. Which was exactly the comfort food I needed in the cold wet weather. It also has this yellow crispy cereal-like ingredient that I haven't figured out yet:
Yummy. Am definitely going back for more.
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