Let's talk about...

food.

I usually start becoming a bit fanatical about certain types of food if I stay up late and my stomach starts to rumble, especially after I've brushed my teeth and am not supposed to be eating anything more. But anyways, lets talk about 2 of my favourite; eggs (which I am thinking about today) and mushrooms(which I was thinking about yesterday DX).

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Eggs. I just saw an article about them in the newspaper today, about how they can be concidered superfood eventhough people say it's so high in cholesterol. But then again people say it's nature's convenience food, protein in a packet. I remember when I was a kid, I used to eat half boiled eggs and bread to soak it up. Every. Single. Day. It was a ritual to me. My mom even had one of those orange containers that you put hot water in to cook half boiled eggs, like what they give you at modern kopitiams. Which is kind of cute. I think my sister just bought one for her kid as well. I also used to have this Mr. Men book, and one of the characters; Mr. Strong, eats eggs copiously, and that's where he gets his muscles from, like what spinach is to Popeye (oh yeah...that reminds me of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast). So you see, I have this kind of sentimental childhood value attached to eggs (which probably also explains why I was a chubby kid*cough*)

But now I'm thinking, what would be better if I could have an egg bingeing session. I'm imagining a chicken egg the size of an ostrich egg, half boil that, and when it's done, add soy sauce and pepper and eat it like a protein-rich soup. Wow...yum. Chicken eggs are too small, the standard 2 eggs per meal goes down too fast. I don't do stuff like century eggs and pigeons' eggs though. And my parents think it's very un-Chinese. Also, I don't get people who eat eggs and take out the yolks. That's the best part! Poached in the soup when you eat instant noodles, the yolk is semi solid and creamy, the highlight of the meal, better than the instant noodles soup itself. If you want to control your cholesterol, eat oats or oyster mushrooms, but I'll come back to those later.

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OK, next,mushrooms.

Yeah, as I just found out from Wikipedia, seems that oyster mushrooms are able to lower your cholesterol. But lets talk about a recipe that I tried awhile ago and liked- Jong gol.

Jong Gol is basically a Korean beef and mushroom hotpot, easy to prepare, and eaten with rice, makes a complete meal. What you need is thinly sliced beef, balanced up with matchstick slices of carrots, spring onion and chilli (not chili padi, the bigger less hot one) and the best part, any kind of mushroom you can think of, the oriental cooking varieties are better, i would think. Oyster mushroom, enoki (the long ones, they are like noodles but in fungal form, lol...), black chinese mushrooms (i think it's the same as shiitake?)which are dried and has a stronger taste, but that's all good. That's what I would use, because they are easy to find in the supermarket and are quite cheap(enoki being my current hero. Have you seen those gigantic mushrooms like king oyster and portobello which are expletively expensive and look like they are big enough for 1 full meal?) Back to the jong gol, put these ingredients in a wok or big pan, add some water, together with soy sauce, rice wine, sugar and crushed garlic. I think noting tastes more natural and healthy, and is easier to prepare. Just cut and boil and you're done.