Take Me Back
If I were to name one dish that would transport me to my childhood, this would be the one – Scrambled Eggs with Tomato:
This is probably one of the most common dishes in a working-class family back then. Mom used put it on top of some rice with a little bit of soy sauce to get the flavour out.
And to get our protein, she would substitute the tomato with some tiny rice fishes, also with scrambled eggs. We didn’t have the large rice fishes shown on the photos below. They were too dear and unavailable locally. The ones we had were all tiny ones, not longer than half an inch. And even then we could probably afford them once or twice a month.
As for breakfast, a typical day would begin with Congee. We ate only plain congee (sorta a traditonal passed down from my grandpa’s county) and didn’t mixed it with any meat.
And if we behaved, we would be rewarded with this once in a while:
I missed these dishes and I missed my mom!
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