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Traditional Breakfast
By Peace | November 23, 2007
Delicious Half-Boiled Eggs
This is the best half-boiled eggs — egg yolks and all egg-white fully half-cooked and soft. However, when I ate it on Tuesday night, it was not very hot. It was luke warm only. Nevertheless, I still had to enjoy my favourite half-boiled eggs at Ya Kun Kaya Toast.
The previous post I had written about Ya Kun Kaya Toast, I had not put up these pictures of half-boiled eggs. I was too eager to eat them. This time I remembered and I took a picture of it first before eating them. Perhaps that explained why it was not too hot when I ate them!
As usual, I had my set with Horlicks and Richard had his with Coffee. As usual, the coffee smell so nice, exactly like what my mother used to brew. Though I do not fancy coffee, I enjoy the fragrance.
How You Eat Half-Boiled Eggs
Richard loves to eat with everything mixed. Then he would drink them up. After putting a few drops of dark soya sauce and some pepper, I love to swallow the egg yolks whole. I do not like to mix the yolk and the whites prior to eating. I normally eat the egg yolks first then the egg whites.
Anytime is a good time to eat Half-Boiled Eggs
My second brother and me used to eat half-boiled eggs during our childhood. We ate them during snack time and supper time. Sometimes my mother cooked for us while some other times we cooked ourselves. It is not so easy to cook half-boiled eggs well. You have to have proper timing. If you boil the eggs for too long, you get hard-boiled eggs. If you boil it only for a while(too short a time), you get uneven whites — mostly uncooked egg-whites with some parts of half-cooked egg-whites. The egg-yolks will not be cooked too. It would taste awful eating almost uncooked eggs like that. What to do when half-boiled eggs are not half-boiled, but one-quarter ‘boiled’? We got to fried them instead!
I had tried cooking half-boiled eggs over the years of my life. I do not cook them very often, but roughly I had learned my way of cooking it well. Here is how I do it:
Cooking Half-Boiled Eggs
1. Boil some water in a pot
2. Wash the number of eggs you are going to cook
3. Slowly put in the eggs in the hot water when the water in the pot has began to boil
4. As soon as you put the eggs in the pot, you time yourself.
5. About 2 minutes of time would be just nice for the eggs to be half-boiled. You have to off the fire by this time, otherwise too much heat will cause the eggs to be too well-cooked.
6. During these time, when you bring the pot to the dining table, to get ready to be served, the hot water still ‘interact’ with the eggs. By the time you crack the eggs, they are very well half-cooked.
New Generation Coffee Shop
This is the menu of Ya Kun Kaya Toast. This is the kind of food which were served during breakfast before my parents went to work. This is the kind of food which were served in ‘kopi tiam’ or coffee shops. However, Ya Kun Kaya Toast is the new generation air-conditioned ‘kopi tiam’ that sells traditional breakfast menu. Who says half-boiled eggs, kaya bread and a cup of coffee must be taken during breakfast? At Ya Kun, you can eat these meal even in the afternoon, or at night. That is great. I hate shops that are so rigid in following their ‘book’. For instance, menus that are served only for breakfast, not for lunch. Mooncakes can only be purchased during Mooncakes Festival. That is one whole year to wait!
More Choices, More Varieties would Be better
I saw some people buying their own bread from other shops but coming here to eat. They buy Ya Kun Kaya to eat with their own bread. They must be people who do not like to eat toasted bread. Sometimes I do not like to eat toasted bread too. They are very dry and ‘hard’. Sometimes we just feel like eating soft bread instead of ‘hard’ or ‘crispy’ bread. Perhaps, this is one extra listing they should put in their menu — untoasted, original soft bread or original wholemeal bread. That would be good, and they can save some electricity too.
Is It That Easy?
Everything seems to be new this time I ate as compared to the last time I been there. However, I noticed the Exchange Policy pinned up on their wall. “No question asked Exchange Policy”, for dine-in only. Terms and conditions apply. The fine prints, the details of the terms and conditions cannot be seen. Those were the only ‘big words’ which I can see, and other normal customers would see, if they are observant.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:33 am
[…] It is obviously a wrong choice made. I even bought Kaya and Butter to go with the bread. Why should I bother about low in sodium and fats when I am going to put Kaya and Butter? I have margarine at home, but I like to eat the bread with Kaya and Planta butter. It is such a great combination with bread. It is as soon as Yat Kun Bread Toast! […]