Never really thought breakfast could be fusion style but then I don't have that wild an imagination :) However, I can break my own stereotypes, so decided to try a fusion of Thai and breakfast.
It's a lovely autumn late morning. Met up with my usual brunchies plus a new friend at Nunam. Parking was relatively easy. In fact, I parked right outside the other neat brekkie place that is Sayer's sisters. We booked ahead but there were plenty of tables. The menu was really interesting and for my poached egg fetish, there were at least 3 options: the traditional poached eggs on toast with chives, son in law eggs with grilled water melon and scallops, and rice congee with 63 degrees egg, crispy bacon and hollandaise sauce. We were wondering how they mix the sauce in...so I decided to venture SLIGHTLY outside of my poached egg mission and tried the 63 degrees eggs - eggs slowly cooked for some 10 minutes at 63 degrees water, so my friends helpfully informed me :)
The place was spacious and quiet. We were able to sit around and talked for a loooonnngggg time afterwards. That was really nice. We did, however, notice that judging by the decor alone, it would be hard to see that this is a Thai fusion restaurant. The only association we found was some faded Thai writing on the tables.
It took about 30minutes between our order and the food to arrive. But then, when another friend made another order, it came within 10 or 15 minutes. There was only us and 1 other table of 2 or 3 people at any one time so not sure what the difference was...
I also had the beetroot, apple and orange juice which was refreshing. I think I had my antioxidant quota for the day :)
The food arrived and my bowl of congee was rather monumental in size! 2 slow cooked eggs in the middle. Hollandaise and bacon bits left on the side as I requested. It looked very watery at first but in fact the rice was very well cooked and sank to the bottom. It had good flavours in it, not sure what it is though, a bit sweet.
Crunch time came for me to try the egg. I had to be super delicate as I could see the egg was uber runny. I managed to scoop it up with the spoon and swallowed one in its entirety. For a moment, I felt like I was Rocky in the movie when he drank raw eggs...it was essentially an entirely uncooked yolk. The egg white was a bit cooked as you can see it's turned white. It was the runniest yolk I've ever tasted and I don't think I liked it :P
As for the other egg, I decided to break it into the congee. But the soup was too cool for it to cook the egg any more. Plus my puny stomach couldn't fit any more soup in, so the other egg was pretty much abandoned...
Friend had the grilled water melon plus scallop and son in law eggs. She said it was good. Similarly, friend who had the scrambled eggs finished hers in spite of her usual small stomach (although she is pregant too :D )
I don't know if it's fair to compare it to my other poached eggs experiences cos these aren't really...but I think...I'm never going to make it as a raw food eater. And on the Olivia egg scale, I would score it as 2.5 out of 5. However, I would absolutely go back to try their actual poached eggs :)
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