Me, Doing a Food Meme? – simontalks.com

Hah, i saw this meme floating around, and even though no one tagged me, I’m doing it nonetheless. Yeah, life as a third rate blogger is pretty sad, sometimes.

I think the meme has something to do with memories of food from your childhood, so here goes:

Mee Siput – Boo yeah! this stuff rocks! I never seen it since i left me hometown, but a few years ago, my brother bought it somewhere in the city. It’s crunchy stuff, looks like Muruku, but it’s brown and has sort of like bubbles on. i used to buy one on the way home from school everyday for 10sen from the Indian kacang putih guy.

Speaking of which, Kacang Putih – the gut outside my school sells it, but i usually buy it from another Indian geezer who cycles by my house every evening. He would roll newspaper into a tight, narrow cone, and fill it with kacang putih. There were a few variety, but my fav has got to be the white, dusty one, or else it won’t be called ‘kacang putih’. My mom use to give the guy old telephone directories to use as paper. There was always another stall selling this stuff outside cinemas.

Bombay toast – my dad made it taste great. After growing up, i noticed everyone refered to it as ‘french toast’ (with the difference of adding a little milk) but my dad told me he learnt from his mat salleh friends to call it that. I can just picture those lazy cool weekend mornings, bread sizzling in the pan, when the world was just a little younger…

Lime / Lemon candy – i still see this stuff being sold in sundry shop. It comes in a small cylinderical wrapping paper (bright gold) and has Thai writing on it. It has about 8-10 white tablets in it (no, not panadol) and it tastes sweet / sour / salty. Someone told me it has lead in it. Who cares, it too addictive.

Pringles – we didn’t get to eat it much, coz it too blardy expensive. But that stuff evil, i tell you. You can’t stop once you start.

(To be continued… soon)

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