June 14th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Lunch Breaks
Yesterday mom made happening claypot chicken rice with lotsa, lotsa mushroom and assam laksa. It was a real treat. My cousin brother had been pestering my mom to cook assam laksa for the past few days.
These are some comments for the assam laksa:
Sis: Not hot enough. Prefer it hotter.
Me: You put chilli padi lah!
Aunt: Not sour enough. It taste more like curry assam and not assam laksa.
Me: You put in more limau kasturi lah.
Uncle: You didn’t put enough laksa leaves is it?
Me: When it comes to Mom and cooking, not enough is never in her dictionary. She always put things MORE than enough.
To me, the assam laksa is perfect. If they are so fussy, they should cook themselves.
We discussed the dumpling festival. When I asked mom about the significance of the dumpling festival, she said, “One fella jumped into the river. He was very patriotic and he sort of die for the country. The people remember him by throwing dumplings into the river, so that the fishes would not eat his body but the dumplings.”
Uncle chipped in, “It’s the dragon boat’s festival in Penang lah!”
Yeah… what a description. Both of them are quite right actually.
Well, it’s refreshing to talk rubbish and not about work for a change during office lunch breaks.