Sunday, May 18, 2008
凤脚点心
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I went out with my aunt's family to eat yumcha today at Box Hill! Wow, it was good. Too bad I was too busy eating to take any pictures, lol. Today was also the first time I've tried eating that chicken feet dish. After all the hype about it being so good, I was expecting something close to divine bliss. Alas, people always hype things up too much. I enjoyed my egg tart better. Not that I'll never eat chicken feet again, but I won't squeal and jump around about it. Although...it WAS fun spitting out the joints after I finished chewing on them...it was just the thumb part I couldn't chew off... O_o
Aside from the chicken feet (we ordered 2 plates), there was chee cheong fun (prawn, it was nice, but the white stuff was a bit too thick), chicken pie, har gao, siew mai, pig's stomach (which tasted distinctly disgusting and greasy!), carrot cake (nice, really nice), glutinous rice, spring roll (a bit too salty for my liking), char siew pao (AWESOME-ness, sweet and warm and just plain GOOOOOOOD), prawn wrapped in fried wonton skin (really good, I'm partial to anything with prawns in it), some weird meat thing (I don't know what it was called, but it was still good, lol) and pei dan chok (crystal jade's porridge is better, but then again, there's no crystal jade kitchen here is there? Grr. Nevertheless, worth a taste).
Unless my memory fails me, that's about it. Now I just feel a tad too full, but that's how I always feel for lunch anyway. For dinner, I just feel 3/4 full which is just the way I like it.
We arrived at the restaurent at about 11am, so we got a 20% discount for arriving early, Heck, we were their first customers for the day! ^^ It was a Post-Chiang Chinese restaurant, you know the Kuomintang leader, Jiang Kai-shek? Yeah. There were pictures and descriptions on the walls about Jiang's favourite foods, but then again... the stuff they sold were just about what you'd find in any restaurant, in terms of dim sum. But I guess they were referring to the a la carte dishes. The Kungpo Pork is apparently brilliant. Although it doesn't quite live up to its name, picture-wise... My aunt says its awesome though. Looks are deceiving.
All I have to do now is wonder about what to do on my birthday. Hmmm. 19's not really anything. It's the halfway point between 18 (OMG-I'm-an-adult-now) and 20 (OMG-I've-hit-the-20s). I guess it's significant because 19 is the last 'teen before twenty. So does this mean it's the last year I can be stupid and childish? Nope. My cousin's 23 and he's still childish. ;P In a fun way. I just hate it when my birthday falls on a weekday. At least I don't have to wait for every leap year to celebrate my birthday! XD
In the car on the way back, my cousin started talking about 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation Asians. It goes like this: the 1st generation starts making money, the 2nd generation builds on it, and the 3rd generation spends it all. Apparently, my other cousin has this really stupid friend who just spends stuff. He works for his parents and gets paid, AND his parents still get him a $70k++ car. That is SO LAME. Anyway, that got me thinking: into which generation do I fit in? I have no idea of my grandfather was rich or not, but I'm guessing no. So if this IS the case, then my dad has got to be the 1st generation and I'll be 2nd generation. But I think I'm quite spendthrift. Although I DO feel the need to work. Does that mean my CHILDREN will be spending and spending and spending but never earning?
That settles it. I'm not having children.
I mean, imagine going through 48 hours of labour pains! I'm not going to do all that just to become a mother! It's OVERRATED! *ahem*
And what was with the weather yesterday??? I was SO FREAKING COLD! Thank goodness I didn't go out for the whole of yesterday. Pouring, dreary and wet wet wet and COLD it was. Even huddled under my blankets didn't make me feel any better. Until, of course, dinner time and my aunt heated this leftover soup up (her soups are really good, ESPECIALLY on cold bitter nights). You know how soup gets better the longer you cook it and left it sit? Well, yeah, this soup was 3 days old, and it only got more awesome! So imagine my delight when I grumpily shuffled downstairs to find HOT SOUP waiting. ^^ And the heater was on downstairs. Whee!
Of course, I'm going to get that $20 fan heater from Target now. My cousin has one, and she seems the better off for it. I WANT ONE TOO! Imma get myself one on Monday. Heehee.
I also have to remind myself not to cook double packets of instant noodles for lunch anymore. It's just WAYYYYYY too much. Plus I added too little water so it ended up quite salty, and I was chugging down water like my throat was on fire for the rest of the day. (Or then again, the water went so quickly cuz I put two eggs in as well, hahaha) My cooking skills are sadly lacking, How I wish I could cook Kungpo Pork as well. No wait, stuff that. I wanna make pastries. I wanna be a pastry chef and make delicious cakes. And then I want my husband to be good at Asian cooking. YAY! My children will become fat and obese and I will have to ship them off to Africa for a couple of years. During which time I will take a break from child-rearing.
Wait a minute, didn't I just say I wouldn't HAVE children a few lines before? Dammit. Must be Legal Theory screwing with my brain cells again.
...is what I said. Savvy?
12:57 pm
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