Food Galore
Food Cravings
I tend to have very strong food cravings, and they are usually quite random. When I start craving for food, I must eat it. If I don’t, I’ll never stop thinking about it. Even if I were to eat something else, I will start comparing how the inferior the food tasted and start grumbling about how nice it will be if I can eat this and that.
There was a period of time I was so crazy over steamboat, I was eating it every other week. At another point in time, I was craving so much for chilli crab, I ate it almost once a week. When I was working at Henderson Industrial Park, I ate Thiong Bahru porridge every other day for dinner. During one of the school holidays, I was insane over the fish and chips sold at the coffee shop near my house, I had it for lunch everyday!
My food cravings were such an issue, many wondered how my future husband will survive if I get pregnant one day. Imagine having a wife craving for Cambodia’s ice-cream on French loaf, Hong Kong’s pig bone porridge, Macau’s Portuguese egg tart and Zhu Hai’s bottled milk (Yummy!) in the wee hours.
10 Food that I Can Never Get Sick Of
- 85 Bak Chor Mee
- Changi Nasi Lemak
- Claypot Assam Fish Head
- Curry Chicken
- Fish Soup with rice, yam rice, mee sua, ramen, ee mee
(from Ngee Ann Polytechnic) - Lady Fingers (of any kind - boiled, fried with sambal etc)
- Mee Sua from Seng Kee Herbal Chicken
- Sauna Egg
- Sambal BBQ Seafood
- Thiong Bahru Porridge
Food is listed in alphabetical order.
Note: Food that I can never get sick of is defined as eating them everyday without getting sick of it.
Ever-So-Hungry
When I was a kid, I refused to eat. I have no idea why. No amount of de-worming medicine, lacetin , Chinese herbs or nutritional products would increase my appetite. My mother will nag incessantly for me to eat, and my granny will hold a cane when it was dinner time. I always ate very little, very slowly. Back then, I was tall (for my age), skinny and almost underweight.
Suddenly, One Fine Day when I was in secondary school, my appetite increased Tremendously! Initially, I had thought that my body needed food for my growth, but apparently after some 7 years, this symptom still remains!
My mother calls it “Baby’s Stomach Syndrome”, because every one to three hours, I will be hungry if I do not eat. If I continue to ignore my hungry little tummy, it will start to growl instead of rumble. Usually by this time, my stomach will start to draw the attention of the people around me. If I still choose to ignore my hungry little tummy (which seldom happens), I will have gastric pains which requires medication. Ouch.
So, do not belittle my ever-so-hungry little tummy.
