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Nina, do you guys eat instant breakfasts like oatmeal, cream of wheat? Do you ever eat scrambled eggs or pancakes with maple syrup? Of what might a Malay instant breakfast consist? :)
Amy, here's another quasi-redundant one:
It is what it is.
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(or is it just a half-assed attempt at the confirmation of a theory? What does "it is" mean? Can any politician answer that? hehe)
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| #48 (permalink) Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:19 am Your Last Meal |
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| prezbucky wrote: |
Nina, do you guys eat instant breakfasts like oatmeal, cream of wheat? Do you ever eat scrambled eggs or pancakes with maple syrup? Of what might a Malay instant breakfast consist? :)
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Yes, of course. I love oatmeal. At home, I usually eat cereal in the morning. Time saving. I like chicken porridge with coconut milk that my mother makes for us too. Sometimes we have toast with jam or Marmite. Not forgetting the nasty Scott's emulsion cod liver oil. My younger sisters are so lucky, they get to have the orange flavour, but during me and my big sister's time, we had to eat the white mucus like one. It tasted like vomit. My mother had to pinch my nose to make me swallow it.
Breakfast varies between families, I think, but the most typical Malay breakfast is nasi lemak and roti canai. Too heavy in my opinion, but as I remember it, when I was small, we usually had them when we had breakfast out in the Sunday market on weekends. I think my parents still do that.
Nasi lemak is rice cooked with coconut milk and is eaten with shrimp chili paste, hard boiled egg and cucumber, sometimes with fried chicken too while Roti canai is something like naan, only thinner in texture and oilier to be eaten with curry. |
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| #49 (permalink) Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:33 am Your Last Meal |
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I love coconut milk! But... what is the stuff that tastes like vomit? Marmite?
Is that like the Vegemite our Aussie exchange student brought to our home when I was 13?
That tasted like, pardon me, shit! I thought (but did not say, not wanting to offend) "What the F is this crap... roasted toxic waste?!" No offense to Aussies. Go Wallabies!)
Nasi lemak sounds like savory rice pudding... and I love naan, so Roti canai sounds good too. If I fly there will you treat me to breakfast Nina? :)
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| #50 (permalink) Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:53 am Your Last Meal |
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| prezbucky wrote: |
| It is what it is. |
Or "I am what I am" -- or maybe more in keeping with the topic of this thread "I yam what I yam". :lol:
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| #51 (permalink) Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:57 am Your Last Meal |
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| I love coconut milk! But... what is the stuff that tastes like vomit? Marmite? |
No, I love Marmite. I can't find a picture of cod liver oil's bottle. But it was white in colour. It really tasted like vomit. You know, like baby vomit. Here's some information. Apparently this kid liked it. But he had had it since he was 13 months old. Pretty much when my mother started feeding me with Marmite.
http://gabe-ttg.blogspot.com/2008/05/im-scotts-emulsion-kid.html
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Is that like the Vegemite our Aussie exchange student brought to our home when I was 13?
That tasted like, pardon me, shit! I thought (but did not say, not wanting to offend) "What the F is this crap... roasted toxic waste?!" No offense to Aussies. Go Wallabies!) |
Yes, that's it but it's an acquired taste. I absolutely love it. :D
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| Nasi lemak sounds like savory rice pudding... and I love naan, so Roti canai sounds good too. |
Rice pudding? I never had this, but I guess it's sweet. If it is, then it's a bit different. But it is yummy.
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| If I fly there will you treat me to breakfast Nina? :) |
It will be my pleasure. :D |
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| #52 (permalink) Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:57 am Your Last Meal |
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Amy, hehe -- EGGcellent!
Nina,
Well crud, I'm sorry for ripping on Vegemite/Marmite. It must be, at least for some, an acquired taste. And I don't think I tried it more than twice during the year our Aussie Tim was here, so sadly I guess I gave up prematurely.
As for cod-liver oil, yeah, yuck! I must have missed that in your previous post.
And rice pudding -- my mom made it with milk (generally means cow's milk in the US), white rice, cinnamon, vanilla extract and raisins.
I've since had it at an Indian buffet but with nutmeg instead of cinnamon and chopped almonds instead of raisins. Either way, yeah -- with the milk/vanilla mixture it is sweet.
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| #54 (permalink) Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:43 am Your Last Meal |
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Whew. Thanks for the understanding, Nina.
Do you guys drink mango juice?
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Which species of mango? Okay, I don't know many either. I jut eat them. :lol: But back in the village of my grandmother, we have quite a variety. I think they are okay but I don't understand why Japanese LOVE mango so much. Is this also the case with American? I wonder why you asked.
The one that my grandmother has on her yard is Kuini, or Kuweni. Personally I think it tastes better than Mango, quite similar though, only it has a little of sour taste to it. Mango juice sometimes can be too sweet. |
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| #56 (permalink) Fri Sep 26, 2008 14:37 pm Your Last Meal |
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| I would have my mom's specialties: Curry and rice/ Kimchi jjigae with pork. I'm not sure I can eat them though, because of tears. It would be very sad not to have the food she makes again. |
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| Hey, I love Kimchi! Plus, Japanese friends told me it will make the skin beautiful. No wonder all the Korean actress are so gorgeous. ;) I sometimes put them in fried rice but mostly I eat them alone. Then I also love bibinba an chijimi (I don't know if I've spelled them correctly, I just spelled them in the Japanese sound) and chijimi sauce! Simply the most delicious sauce I've ever eaten. :D |
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| Well crud, I'm sorry for ripping on Vegemite/Marmite. It must be, at least for some, an acquired taste |
Fully endorsed by Men at Work, and at least one Belgian. Fancy a huge vegimite sandwich ?
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BARF!
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Nina, I am no mango expert... i thought there was only one kind of mango -- "earth mango" or whatever. hehe
It was just a question, no big dealio. I remember loving the glass of thick mango juice I had at Bombay Palace in Washington, DC. That was my first taste of Indian cuisine and mango juice and i liked both.
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| I'm glad to hear that you like some of Korean food, Nina. Bibimbab("bibim" is a noun for "mixing (with other ingredients)", bab means "rice") is also my favorite, too. Koreans love eating chijimi on a rainy day. A TV program once revealed the reason: the frizzle sound cooking chijimi on the fan is really similar to the sound of rain dropping on windows and ground. They say that provokes people to want to eat it. Funny, but I think it's reasonable. :) |
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