char kuay teow

I had char kuay teow for tea just now.

But what was wrong with my beloved portion of char kuay teow was that it was missing the most important ingredient. The sng kam. So damned was I when I opened up my packet of char kuay teow to realise that the sng kam was missing. I tried complaining to my momma hoping that she has some spare sng kam hidden in the dark corners of the fridge, but no such luck.

"Eat it as it is la!" my momma told me.

With nothing that I could do other than quietly do what she said I ate my sng kam-less char kuay teow sadly.

I closed my mouth gently upon the first bite of the char kuay teow and immediately my face scrunched up.

The char kuay teow was tasteless, dry and slightly bitter.

"Momma, the char kuay teow very bitter leh." I continued complaining to my momma who was so sick and tired of me that she totally ignored me. I ended up shutting up my goddamned mouth except to put the char kuay teow in. But there was a certain lacking in enjoyment of the food that I would have liked. I didn't feel happy from the meal.

Then my momma came out and spoke to me again.

"I think your taste buds spoil liao."

Like ???

"You always think that the fruits I cut for you are sour but you don't find sour things sour. Aren't you a bit weird liao?" my mon explained.

Then I gave this matter some serious thought. I always hated fruits that taste sour, not really hated it, but I have a very low treshhold for sour fruits. I finds most oranges, plums, peaches, mango sour. And the more interesting thing was the the sweeter it was to my mother the more sour it was to my dear tongue. For a normal person who just hates sour stuff, this might still seem somewhat normal, but this little girl here loves sng muay, flavours her food with sng kam or western food with lemon. So you can't say I just cannot take sour stuff.

But the funny thing is that I find sng muay salty. And char kuay teow with sng kam does taste saltier to me than without, ditto for western food with lemon.

So, is there not a problem with my tastebuds?

I'm tasting sour foods salty and sweet foods sour.

Or if I dwell deeper into this matter, is it really a problem with my tastebuds or something from deeper within? Like my stomach...

Yup, friends of mine would know that Joan has a very weak stomach and during camps when she don't eat and sleep well, she will always feel like puking. Normal days, she also does feel like puking if she wakes up too early, so does this mean that something is wrong with the gastric juices in her stomach? Would this be the main cause that's affecting her tastebuds?

Well, recently I don't have much of a puking problem liao but that's more because i'm never up before 9, so i'm not sure me not puking is more cos the problem is not there or just there is no reason for the resurfacing of this symptom.

Hmm... Tell me about it...