You Are What You Eat, Kim Ku

Name: Kim Ku!

Occupation: Design robot by day, Art slave by night

Borough: Queens

Relationship status: Single

What did you eat today?

For breakfast, I had a ham and egg sandwich on the run (literally), a clementine, and a banana. We went out for a department lunch at Isle, a Thai place, so I had chicken massaman curry and vegetable spring rolls. Then for dinner, I had homemade char-siu, or roast pork, with a helping of fried eggs, string beans and sticky jasmine rice. There was also some soup involved with mushrooms and lotus roots.

What do you never eat?

American cheese and/or peanuts.

Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:

Frozen squid (to dump into ramen), sliced pork and beef (to dump into ramen), eggs (to dump into ramen), and oyster sauce (to flavor veggies…which can then be dumped into ramen).

What is your favorite kitchen item?
I like the Zojirushi rice cooker the best because not only does it make tasty rice but it also has great ergonomic design. I haven’t met many rice cookers that have digital clocks on them. [I'm surprised -- you're the first person in YAWYE to ever go for rice cooker for fave kitchen item, I think. --Ed.]

Where do you eat out most frequently?

Milk and Cookies. Their chocolate mint cookies, especially when they’ve just come out of the oven, is the best breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack I could ask for.

World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?

I’d have to go to Philadelphia to eat my last combo breakfunchinner meal(s).

For my breakfast part of the meal: Depending on my mood, eggs benedict at either White Dog (the founder of this place is also the founder of Urban Outfitters- she lives on the 2nd floor of the restaurant) or Rx. White Dog serves their eggs with smoked salmon while Rx does it with ham.

For my lunch part of the meal: Morimoto’s Omakase in Philadelphia. They have the best Yellowtail Tartare I’ve ever tasted. And if it’s not too much to ask, I would prefer Masaharu Morimoto to cook it for me and also give me a signed photograph of himself (the waiters actually come back with one if you ask them when he’s there, I swear!)

For my part of the dinner meal: Buddakan to have some of their wasabi mashed potatoes. Other than that, the place is too stiff for me because all the waiters dress completely in white. I’d head over to Ms. Tootsie’s Bar and Lounge where there’s great soul food and endless homemade iced tea with watermelons in it!

To end my time in the world, I’ll have a lemon mint gelato at Capogiro and some of my mom’s banana bread.

I'm goin' back to Cali. (To Cali?) To Cali. Enjoy the holidays! I will be trying to start a tradition in my California Thai Buddhist/Atheist family of making latkes on Christmas. Woohoo! Happy New Year!