Comfort Food

My young niece arrived home for spring break from Chicago where she is in her second year at the University of Chicago. I am very pleasantly pleased with how she has matured, and how she is brimming with the excitement of new ideas and new people and concepts, and of course - new found freedom living away from home for the first time in her young life.

Later that day we all piled into the car and headed for a favorite Malaysian restaurant nearby. I could never have too much of these flavors that, to me, are so rich and vivid and colorful. Chicken satay, roti canai with a curry dip, spicy flounder, squid, bowls of chicken rice and so much more. It was capped off with sweet black sticky rice pudding with coconut cream.

Ahhhh, comfort food!