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What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten?
You know what? This is probably one of the more harder questions I have ever answered in my life. How can you choose one dish or one meal to be the “most delicious”? You cannot. There is no such thing as “the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten”. However, I will say that there have been many “most delicious food experiences” I’ve ever had. Allow me to explain below in the best way I know how…by making a list.
- level 4 spicy 豚骨ラーメン (tonkotsu ramen) from 一蘭 (Ichiran) ramen chain.
- I’ve been to Tokyo, Taipei, & Hong Kong (IMO…Tokyo locations are the absolute best)
- freshly cooked, piping hot sausage on a stick at the Shilin Night Market in Taipei, Taiwan
- double bowl of 红烧牛肉面 (braised beef noodle soup) at a 50+ year old noodle shop with my closest friends in Taipei, Taiwan (after a wedding)
- sushi soooo fresh, the fish head is still moving, at my family’s favorite restaurant in Yokohama, Japan (just outside of the train station)
- double bowl of 雪菜肉丝面 (snow cabbage beef noodle soup) with my maternal grandmother in Shanghai, China
- homemade/handmade hamburger patties made by my mom with 2 slices of melted cheddar cheese
- first time taste of lobster, 2-pound lobster on the wharf at Abalonetti’s in Monterey, California with my parents
- 9-course steamed chicken dinner at Toriyoshi restaurant with friends in Tokyo, Japan
- ice cream & corn flake parfait dessert at Toriyoshi restaurant in Tokyo, Japan
- first time taste of mille crêpe cake from Café La Voie in Tokyo, Japan
- Jian’s homemade version of a French cassoulet
- Liberty Farms™ BBQ duck at The Progress restaurant in San Francisco, California
- Liberty Farms™ smoked duck at The Morris restaurant in San Francisco, California
- buckwheat donuts at The Morris restaurant in San Francisco, California
- deluxe seafood tower at Wright Brothers restaurant in London, England
- roast beef sandwich on sliced sourdough bread with Swiss cheese, red onions, mixed greens & garlic aioli spread from my local grocery store.
I had to make a list of some of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten. I couldn’t choose only one thing. Plus, it’s hard to think about all the things one has eaten in their entire lives & choose only one specific thing to be the absolute favorite or most delicious. How does a person choose only one? More importantly, how could a person go back through the memory catalog of their life & try to remember all of the foods they have consumed in their lifetime, then decide which dish reigns supreme (not an Iron Chef pun, I swear)? I don’t want to think that hard or make some ridiculously absurd justification about one frou-frou meal I had at some fancy-schmancy restaurant somewhere exotic. So I made a list.
My food preferences are all over the place, but that’s okay. I am not really an adventurous eater, but I am still willing to try foreign foods. Jian is pushing me to try new foods, or foods I have refused to eat in the past, when we travel again to Japan later this year. We shall see. Until the next meal, cheers.
Today’s song of the day:
How do you waste the most time every day?
This is an easy one. I waste my time in 3 different ways. Here’s my breakdown.
First off, my main time waster, & apparently my biggest phone battery drainer these days, is Instagram. Since I don’t use TikTok, thank God, I watch a lot of Instagram reels, which are basically re-posted TikTok videos across all the social media video platforms. There are also a few key Instagram accounts of content creators that I follow faithfully; I am constantly refreshing my IG feed to check for new postings from them of any kind.
Second, I follow these same content creators pretty much on most of the major social media platforms, & YouTube is one of them. Some of the key accounts I follow are of musicians. So I am constantly checking to see if they have posted any new music or videos, or if anybody has reposted any interviews or concert clips of these artists.
Third, & lastly, I read quite a bit of celebrity tabloids. I can lose track of time reading through all of the day’s entertainment/celebrity news & tabloid gossip. Reading entertainment & pop culture news also provides an annoying distraction especially when I am trying to write but am also procrastinating (a lot).
I prioritize what is the most important in my life, but once I get a little bit of free time to myself, I end up wasting that time doing things like regularly checking my favorite artist’s social media updates, or mindlessly scrolling through IG reels or YT shorts.I
want to make the most of my precious little free time, but I often let it slip away doing these 3 things as mentioned above. I should end my post here, & get back to my priorities, like washing my hair. Until the next prompt, cheers to you.
What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
Here’s my direct answer: I am a “take-carer”. I know that’s not an actual word, but that’s how I would describe myself &, more aptly, describe the best part of myself. I wouldn’t exactly categorize that part of myself as being a caregiver, per sé, because that sounds like I’m a certified licensed nurse or something. However, I do like to & tend to give care to those around me. Also, since having a child, I have noticed my motherly instincts & mentality ramp up ten fold.
Perhaps that is one reason why I, in some ways, enjoy having my mother live with me & my family unit. It’s not only that multi-generational living is engrained in my family’s culture, & I don’t mind multi-generational living at all, but me wanting the role of taking care of others plays a huge part. It has been especially important for me to take on this role & responsibility ever since my mom became a widow. It gives me great relief to know that I can provide my mom a sense of stability, consistency, & comfort, filling the gap between the loss of my father & standing in his shoes (partially).
I also take pride in caring for those around me. My main role these days is to give care to my little offspring, but I also take care of all the other significant people in my life, & that gives me the greatest feeling of fulfillment.
How I care for the others around me varies, but I’d like to think of myself as a constant or consistent being that each person can attach themselves to at any time. I can be a helping hand, a guide, a shoulder, a listener, a hostess, a gift-giver, a person to make others laugh…although, I’ve only been able to make myself laugh lately, as only I am able to laugh at my own stupid mom jokes.
Yes, I would very much say that my ability as well as my desire to take care of others is my most favorite thing about, well, me. Do I make time to take care of myself? Yes. The thing I do best to take care of myself is to make myself laugh at least once a day, & I don’t mean a chuckle at a silly little anecdote, or an ‘LOL’ at a friend’s text. I’m talking about a nearly in tears, can’t stop clutching my belly, full blown knock my socks off laugh. That’s all, a fall-out-of-my-chair laugh at least once a day. I’m giggling even as I write this line.
That is all. LOL 🤣
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