Sunday 7 June 2020

the CB diet Part 2: Takeaways






These pictures here are but a (small) portion of all the takeaway meals the bro had during the circuit breaker months of April and May. 

There are more, he says, and forthcoming those pictures may be, but these here are pretty much a general "sampling" of all the meals he had fitted to complement the carefully calibrated, cautiously calculated menu.

There was a lot of salmon. 

There was a lot of beef. 

And, he emphasizes, there was quite a bit of the Indian.

It wasn't difficult to get salmon. The supermarkets had it. The restaurants had it. Either he got salmon belly sashimi carried back from Don Don Donki, salmon sashimi don ordered and delivered from Ichiban, or roasted salmon belly sushi self-collected from the closest Itacho.  

Beef wasn't a challenge either. Until the day the management of Millennia Walk decided they'd shut the entire mall, he went down to favorite Turkish place Donergy for their Ali Nazik doner beef (kebabs with babaganoush and fresh vegetables), and on the days that he preferred steak, he ordered from Jacks' Place, Collins' and Hot Tomato . No preferences as to which of all three he prefers, he says, but the app shows Collins to be quite a contender.

The choice for Indian, however, was a deliberate one. 

He wanted the curries. 

To double up as ready-made gravies to fry with the pieces of chicken and chunks of beef in the days after. 

Very generous the portions were, he added, and it didn't matter from where the curries came from, whether they were from Springleaf (where he'd ordered mutton murtabak) or from Mr and Mrs Mohgan's prata stall at the coffee shop down the road.