I'm someone who usually goes for their mains when I'm at Tuk Tuk Cha.
On occasion, however, and especially when they've got things like birthday vouchers and offers, I switch up- switch around- and have myself a different meal from the usual.
Hedgehog got a birthday promotion for the month of July, so we went.
My favorites at Tuk Tuk Cha lean towards traditional Thai street food favorites.
The Green Curry Beef, the Pad See Ew, the Pad Thai, and at one time, the Beef Boat Noodles.
Today felt like a day to have a plate of Pad See Ew (stir-fried flat rice noodles in soy sauce), so that's what I got.
Didn't matter whether or not I had had been having it at many other a time.
Hedgehog, on the other hand, decided to have one of the newer dishes on this special offer menu board.
For a while we vacillated between the Tom Yum Fried Rice, the Sweet and Sour Pork rice and the Pineapple Fried Rice, but in the end he went for a plate of cashew nut chicken, and because the $12 deal included a drink, he went for a nice cold refreshing cup of Thai Milk Green Tea.
Between the both of us I think I was the more delighted one.
It might be an ordinary looking plate of chicken and cashew nuts no different from those at zichar stalls but there's something appetizing about a serving of small stir-fried chicken bits in sweet-sour tangy sauce paired with crunchy nuts smothered in the same sauce.
It makes for a sweet sort of meal.
What's more there was an egg.
Anyone who has ever eaten a fried egg with rice knows just how lovely it is to break open the yolk and let it all run down into the grains then eat it together.
There's a certain savor that one can't get just from eating rice alone.
We shared our plates; Hedgehog helped himself to a bit of noodles from mine, I poked his vegetables over with my fork and picked a couple of cashew nuts from his.
But it was the dessert afterwards that made this meal feel complete.
If there's one thing about the food here, it is that they don't compromise on size or quality even if it be part of a complimentary birthday voucher that you get for free.
I was happy to have this lovely cool plate of (fried?) cubed thick toast drizzled with a layer of thick pandan cream, topped with a huge scoop of cold, tasty coconut ice cream, and sprinkled generously with tiny little specks of crunchy biscuit bits and oreo bits all on top.