Not the healthiest of breakfast choice, but the simple and cheap economical fried vermicelli or ‘king jai fun’ is my all-time favourite comfort food since aeons ago up until today! This simple yet comforting staple food served as breakfast and even lunch is ubiquetious in the morning, at road-side stalls, vans and in coffee shops. The usual side-dishes that go well alongside it are chicken curry, fried eggs, sausages, fish cakes, spring rolls fish balls and vegetables curry. Some like it eaten with soy bean sweet sauce (teem ceong), curry gravy and chilli sauce. For me, I like it eaten with chicken curry and fried fish spring rolls. I had sought so much comfort eating it during my 3 pregnancies as it had never failed to help reduce my morning sickness. I could eat it 3x a day and not get fed-up with it!
We had a vesrion of it in Pg growing up and Mum used to call it “Choi-Chu-Loe” “fun” (= “Millionare’s noodles”). Of course as a kid we’d get a 10sen pkg with no other trimmings except for the hot sauce. It was sprinkled with strips of deep fried “teem chuk” which we savoured slowly! When living in HK, they had a similar version, sprinkled with fried tiny, tiny transparent baby shrimp. It was HKD 1 and since I was economically better-off those days, I’d splurge with HKD 1 of curry fishballs! Those were the days!! LOL!
Chris, oh yea I still remember the 10sen – 20sen per plate noodles during my school days. Fishballs only cost 10sen each! That was 30 decades ago.