"Ngau Mo Looi"
October 5, 2005 11:58PM (MYT)

this passage is specially dedicated to my sweet daughter who has a temper of a "ngau" (cow)
tonight ah-mi darleng cooked "ham yue ching chu yuk" (salted fish steam pork), yum yum! so she asked me to put some sauce and peel some pork to mix in your rice to feed you. i did what she said, i fed you 1 spoon, it was ok, no funny faces, but then the second spoon, you pushed it away, presssing your lips together and looking very reluctant...

i asked you why? you pointed at the beef soup and said "mami, oi sek li ko". ah-mi looked at me and ya-ya too knew that you prefer beef to any other meat. we tried to con you into eating other food, but each time we will all fail. whenever there is beef and there is soup, the answer is a loud "NO" to others.

i still recall, when mami was pregnant with you, the cravings for "hot soup" was extremely strong. i would wake up every morning to heat up last night's soup as breakast. once, i couldn't stop my cravings, i persuaded ya-ya to go Hong Kong with me to have true "beef steamboat". (i think i almost had all parts of the cow except for its kkc) we took a cheap flight there and spent 5D 4N in HK, we had steamboat all 4 nights including one lunch. your grand uncles brought us to many different restaurants to savour some of the finest and most mouth melting beef...

one night ya-ya wanted to have Teochew food, but i was not full at all, so after the Teochew dinner we adjourned to have steamboat at 11pm...the uncles and aunties shook their heads and said this pregnant mum will sure give birth to a "ngau mo wong" (king of cow devil)...i sure did!
some of my friends finds me too extreme, flying over to HK to eat beef, i explained to them, once you try it, the taste will be lingering in you for a lifetime!

and now, my sweet girl you, are exactly like me - an undeniable natural beef lover!