Comfort Food

Usually we eat because we are hungry or need energy, right? What about eating certain foods that make you feel good and sometimes remind us of happy memories? I call the latter comfort food.

How does a food become comfort food? I know ice-cream and cakes are also a comfort food for other people. This comfort food came to my mind because I cannot stop eating noodles, you know “hor fun”, “beehoon”, “chow kuey teow” and the egg noodles. I believe that we connect food with important times, feelings and people in our lives. I miss my mom and dad’s cooking, and also I miss them very much, hence I’m going for all these noodles which reminds me when I was back in Ipoh. Dad’s fried noodles and rice is the best. I still remember my mom’s “birthday mee”. Oooohhh, so yummy. On my last CNY trip, my mom made Siamese laksa. Thanks, sis, for planning the menu during my trip.

I noticed one of my coworker’s comfort food is pop-corn. She goes for pop-corn whenever she’s stressed out. Grab a packet from her cabinet, run up to the cafeteria and pop it in the microwave. Two minutes and it’s done and she comes back to the office with her bag of popped pop-corn. The entire office smells of buttered pop-corn.

Tomorrow is Saturday and it’s noodles for breakfast for me. DB will probably want some, but he might not since we might get “Pad Thai” for dinner.

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