Sunday, April 8, 2007

Food Fight

Choosing what to eat when I was single was a no-brainer. I basically followed two simple rules:
- No fish, no vegetables, no doctor- recommended ingredients
- Doesn't require me to wash any dishes afterwards.

Now that I am married, I have to think about my wife. And there's no way she eats without having a vegetables on the table. Furthermore, eating with proper utensils is a must now, which cause our kitchen basin to always be full. Plastic box and spoon are rare things in our house, whereas they were basically the main decorative articles in my old room.

Back to the food selections, we now need to compromise between healthy food (or "her food") and deep-fried food ("my food"). We serve both in the same table and force each other to eat the other's food. BTW my wife actually likes deep-fried food, it's just that she's more health-conscious than me. And because she knows that I am a whiner when I have a sore throat or flu. So she always insists that I eat enough vegetables.

Another thing that we cannot agree on our food is the amount of chilly. My wife believes that every food should have at least three kilograms of green chilly, whereas I believe that chilly should just be put in a place where it’s belong, such as in hell.

So, the compromise? She puts the chilly on the side and leaves our food chilly free, while I learn to eat chilly, which always cause me to produce enough sweat to flood Belgium, but that’s another problem.
And as for the vegetables issue, we are still on standoff so far, but I compromise by eating more fruits instead. But she does not seem to have a problem adjusting to all the chicken cutlet and chicken wings.

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