Over dinner.
Feb 15, 2007 in Diary-writer
We beat the Puchong jam and found ourselves enjoying some signature Tai-Chow dishes last night.Being a working Chinese in KL is like this, when work gets late, dinner becomes an easy choice. We either head off to a nearby hawker centre, or somewhere where the cooks stir fry their dishes with great enthusiasm and an unhealthy dose of Ajinomoto.
Eric got us three dishes: frog, calamari and chinese romaine lettuce (i.e. kong bou tin kai, ham dan sotong, fu yu yau mak). When the dishes came Eric squealed at the frog, saying that it was his favourite dish. So I decided to tell him something my mom mentioned previously as he tucked into a chopped up frog leg.
'You know what my mom said the other time you order tin kai at that restaurant near your house?'
'Yrmmmm?'
'She said you shouldn't be eating these stuff, not that much…'
'Yrmmmm… why not?'
'Her specific words were,'Eh when Eric and you get married and you start to make babies, he cannot have this kind of dishes lah…''
'What? You mum said what?'
'She said, when we get married and start to make babies, you can't eat frog.'
He almost choked on the leg. 'What's the reason?'
'She said that something in the frog, and in other ye mei dishes like squirrel or bear or dog or monkey or snake, is bad for your sperm and subsequently bad for the baby woh…'
'I don't eat those kind of things lah.'
'Well the last time we had soup at that herbal pot restaurant over in SS2, you ordered squirrel something kan?'
'Aiyah one time only,' he said. 'Try only. I mean you have to try exotic dishes once in a blue moon right?'
'Well since then mum is always fussing over the kind of things you eat and she says its 'No good, no good, bad for your future generations."
'So she actually said that when you and I are allowed to legally make babies I'm not to eat exotic stuff?'
I nodded. 'Uhuh. Right after we had that frog dish near your house…'
My Eric, he grinned, and then taking another piece from the dish and proceeding to tuck in extra noisily, said, 'OK lor. I eat after we have sex. Heheheh..'
'…'