Nasi is rice in Malaysian. I loved this dish when I was there many moons ago (at Cameron Heights), and I'm reminiscing now. The summer before I moved from NYC to Maui, at the Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall, is a Scandinavian cafe specializing in open-face sandwiches. I cooked these two culinary experiences together for brunch today for their goodness sake. My nasi is vegetarian (in its original chicken popcorns are used and chili peanuts), in mine cashews toasted in vegan butter and wing beans. I had a pear in the fridge and added it for a "pickled" flavor that works well in the mix. Medium hard-cooked eggs are essential to this "dry ramen." And lime juice over. I'm always hungry so I must have a salad and bread to fill me. Sunflower seed nordic hard bread on hand, and no surprise I used them for my ensemble, so rendering my eggplants and cherry tomatoes over stovetop broil, until charred and moist juicy. I hitchhiked on the back of a pickup truck to the tea plantation in Cameron Heights, taking in the view and filling my soul like I'm Dean Moriarty. The ceiling at Grand Central is a painting of the constallation zodiac. The iconic clock in the main hall to me is the most romantic timekeeper and beacon of the human condition- we can be lost, we can come around.
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