Taking another look at Asian food
It must be this natural thing that’s been passed down the Asian generations. While we (Asians) tend to be more conservative in most other aspects, it seems to me that we, or at least my parents, totally love weird food.
I don’t mean the oily Chinese, Thai curry or spicy Malaysian you get in restaurants. I mean taking a look at Asian food in Asian homes.
Although my parents don’t go as far as eating dogs and cats, fried worms and monkey brains that the Chinese have this weird liking for, they do have weird tastes. That is, mixing “all good things” together to form something nasty.
- Strawberry jam, meat, avocado and cheese… all in a sandwich. In minor cases, dad loves strawberry jam plus Nutella and/or peanut butter.
- Soy milk and… something. Just imagine something like… egg, or… juice. Juice? Yeah, sweetly home-made avocado or carrot or another one of those let’s-add-everything-together juice.
- Cereal. This sounds normal, right? But um… cereal in boiled water, left to cool for twenty minutes because soggy cereal tastes better. And you know parents, they love the tasteless muesli kind of cereal. So you get it, tasteless, soggy mush.
All this, in the name of “health”. When I say they taste yuck, they say I have problems because they’re healthy things. When I say I prefer to eat these things separately, they emphasise that I really have mental problems because they don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.
If you’re Asian, do you or your parents eat such things? But please put up your hand if you also agree my parents eat weird stuff (they’re not food because they’re not edible for me).
