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Thank you Yvy... next time you come to Kuching, I don't want to bring you out to eat anymore haaaa...

So you "kay-poh" people wanna know my 5 childhood MEMEries of things to eat, yea?

1. Bovril
Spread on bread. Added to Maggi Mee to flavour the soup. Added to plain porridge. Mashed with a hard-boiled egg. I tell you, this super tasty beef extract is effing versatile. Much better than Marmite, which I absolutely detest. There was once when the govt was making a big hoohaa over the Mad Cow Disease and started banning all beef products from the UK, including my precious Bovril... it was a terrible time. *sigh*

2. "Bak Pau" (Steamed pork buns)
... from the old wet market at Green Road. Whenever my grandmother made a trip to the market, my sister and I would request for a bak pau each. I loved the bak pau because it came with slivers of "char siu" and a quarter of a hard-boiled egg inside. And when you take the first bite into the steaming pau, the rich aroma of savoury pork would gently hit your nostrils and ooooo... it was just sooooo good....

3. Pickled "Choy Sum" / Pickled Lettuce
When I was much younger, my parents would leave me at the nursery before heading off to work. Apart from milk, the only thing I remembered eating at the nursery was porridge and pickled choy sum. I'm sure there were other food on the menu but they probably weren't too outstanding. Anywayyyy, I loved pickled choy sum when I was small. I loved the sweet-salty, umami taste and the slight crunchiness of the choy sum. Unfortunately, I can't tolerate that stuff now. Whenever I go to supermarkets and I chance upon the little glass jars containing pickled choy sum, I feel slightly sick.

4. Pretzels
My father was very, very strict on junk food last time. No sweets, chocs, crackers, or ice-cream at home. But he allowed us to eat pretzels - long, thin, sugar-coated biscuit-like sticks. The highlight of going to the nearby grocery store was to buy a packet of pretzels. I don't recall the brand but they came in a red and silverish foil packaging. But my affinity for pretzels didn't last long. They were just... well, boring.

5. Python / Monitor Lizard
Once when I was around 6 years old, my dad brought my mum and I to some coffeeshop at night where they served either python or monitor lizard soup. It didn't look too spectacular - chunks of white meat with "kei chee" (wolfberries) in a bowl of clear broth. It tasted pretty good - very similar to tender chicken. But since Yvy described monitor lizard meat as stringy like beef, I think what I had was probably python meat then...

6. Porcupine meat
... Ooops! The MEME only called for 5 kinds of food, so no porcupine meat description then... hehe!



MEME tagging instructions:

List down the last 5 (including yourself) who have been tagged and then followed by those who are GOING to be tagged (at least 3, or more) so here goes :