it's never your intention to turn this into a food blog, just that this week you're really in a food saga mode. you spent more time in the kitchen or thinking about food than really on your work. it's no good because you will put on weight as you bake all the chinese new year goodies. yesterday was a brief pause, but today you have been cooking again.
fish maw soup. this is the soup you drink at the new year's eve reunion table, with many other dishes. in fact you totally forgotten about this soup until last year a friend cooked this for a gathering and that trigger your taste bud and memory again. the memory around this soup is always festive, happy, merry and overflow. overflow as mum usually add a lot of goodies to the soup until the very edge of the pot. when your honey went to malaysia in october last year, you deliberately asked him to buy fish maw.
the fish maw you have is not of high quality, in fact it's thin and greasy. nevertheless it is fish maw that you missed. you made a pot of soup, use the recipe that your friend shared with you. you could still roughly remember how this soup is made when your mum was around. the ingredients were about the same.
you're happy as the flavor developed overnight. you had a very flavorful soup, the aroma of pork, chicken, dried squid and fish maw is a perfect harmony to you. drinking this soup today (both lunch and dinner), you're down your memory land. you can only recalled the happy occasions with this soup. and deep in your heart, you give thanks to God and for your family. even though you may be separated around the globe, it's this soup that bring you and memory of your family together.
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