: : Miserable : :
Pretty gloomy day today, or rather, since Sunday. Have been coughing non-stop since Sunday. Guess the spicy Thai food got to me. Urgh!
Well, on Monday, the cough didn’t stop me from eating some of my collegue’s kedondong pieces. Wah! It was so nice! This one had already been pickled and sweetened up at the same time. So, the taste is both sweet and sour and still very crunchy.
Since my throat has been burning up on Monday, I decided to go out and grab two packets of Lo Han Kuo Infusion to try and solve my throat. This one is mixed with Chrysanthemum so it actually tastes less bitter than usual. Considering that only 5% is sugar, it is still a very sweet drink.
Lo Han Kuo is used in Chinese Traditional Medicine to cool the body down. It definitely works for my sorethroat everytime, especially when one has dry cough like now. One huge packet contains 10 smaller packets and last nite, I think I walloped about 9 of them with HOT HOT water, trying to cool the throat down. It worked as today, my throat wasn’t so painful. Drank another 8 packets today and I hope be better tomorrow.
Then again, I got caught in the rain during lunchtime and am now suffering from fever. Took two panadols and am now sweating it out like mad.
Ah well. More food pics tomorrow. Oh yeah, before I forget, someone was asking how to make the sotong kangkung sauce. Here is what my Granny said : take some thick black soy sauce, mix with brown sugar and chilli. You’ll need to dilute the thick soy sauce but later can be thickened with some cornflour. Once that is down, mix with some grounded peanuts. That’s it.
I’m now suffering from food drooling symptom at Renee’s latest posting. Singapore definitely has more food variety during CNY than poor old Kuching. Oh yeah, Dr.Liew has also sneakily “stolen” a picture from Renee’s site and did an amusing writeup on Nian Gao. Always a funny blog to read, Dr. Liew also mentioned about Ang Pow and other CNY practices. The BWG also has a writeup on the Tray of Togetherness. When I asked Granny about this, she said she didn’t know about it. Wah! Imagine all the traditions lost through antiquity! Oh well.
Ciao!