Kaya Toast
Serves 4 (with a good amount of coconut curd for later)
This is a make-ahead dish and a perfect thing to serve at brunch (it
is, after all, a Singaporean hangover cure, not to be confused with
frico, the Italian hangover cure). The sweet coconut curd on the
toasted bread is almost like a pastry; but dipped into the soy-
sauced egg, it goes in a whole new direction. Ninety percent of the
work here involves making the curd in a double boiler. Make sure,
while whisking, that you don’t whisk feverishly: you’re not trying