FITS AND STARTS

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

One of life's mysteries

Call it nature or nurture, but all the things we do and have learned can be attributed to the intricacies of human genetics or our surroundings. For instance, we inherit diseases and certain traits from our lineage, we wipe our asses clean after taking a dump because after our parents taught us how, we're familiar with using cutlery to eat our meals, we talk and think like a gangster because we watch too much of The Sopranos, we can speak several languages because we learned it from foreign dramas, dan lain-lain.

But what really stumps me is...


WHO TAUGHT US TO DIG OUR NOSES?

Interesting isn't it. That we don't really know how we came to pick up one of life's simplest hygienic pleasures. I don't recall my parents ever sticking their fingers into their nasal cavities and telling me, "Now look here Xian, this is pnee sai. Do this and that itch in your nose will finally go away."

Monday, February 18, 2008

Comfort food 101

You've heard of mac n' cheese and eggs n' spam, but what do you get when you mix...

Macaroni

AND

Spam

?

Dunk it in boiling water,
add a little salt and pork stock,
and the end result is...

MAC N' SPAM

Learned flatmate told me the dish is not uncommon in Hong Kong. Other learned flatmate went as far as to say that it's popular in South East Asia and I am less inclined to believe her because the great glutton me had not heard of it until a couple of weeks ago. If you're hungry and in need of a hot comforting snack, give the above recipe a try. It makes you all warm and tingly inside, like sitting by a fire on a cold wintry day.