Eating tips
Do you have any tips from your (grand)parents about how and what to eat?
I remember the advices given to me:
Eat “fully” during the breakfast – 早餐要吃的好
Eat well during the lunch – 午餐要吃的饱
Eat little during the dinner – 晚餐要吃的少
Interestingly, the Germans have a similar idiom. Eat like a king for breakfast, eat like a businessman for lunch and eat like a begger for your dinner.
As I was coming to school today, holding a piece of bread and a tumbler of coffee, I reflected upon this and realize it’s very different for me nowadays.
Except during Saturdays and sometimes Sundays, where I have the time to relax and enjoy a luxurious breakfast, breakfasts are usually a brief event in other days. I try to at least eat it “well”. So no oily stuff or that sort, just milk, cereal or bread. Come to think about it, that’s because I can’t get it =( Who would reject Wantan mee, Wartan Hor, Nasi Lemak, Dim Sum etc. at any time of the day?
For lunch, I try to eat “little” so that I can concentrate for the rest of the day. A heavy lunch is a recipe for a good afternoon nap, or head banging on the table if you can’t afford a nap. I usually end up doing the second one. Just the other day, my scripts fell all over the floor in unison with my head. Well, embarrassing.
Dinner is usually the best meal of the day. A time where I can finally relax, sometimes with Steph, sometime alone, but always with a good and “full” meal. Somehow, the cooking and preparing process helps me to relax after a whole day of brain work. I can imagine myself doing the cooking in my family in the future. I just hope that my kids (if any) won’t dread the days I’m cooking (Dad’s cooking today!!?? Darn….)
Well, what about you then? How do you eat?