I never thought the food that I kind of loathe in my past would come back and haunt me.
I remember it so clearly though. I was in Primary school. I love eating noodles and it has not stop being my preference when compared to rice. My favourite food at that juncture was Fishball Noodles. I always queued up to buy them. For me, in primary school, the noodle store always sell some other bowl of noodles besides the sale of fishball noodles everyday. Like Monday it would be just Fishball Noodles, Tuesday is Prawn Noodles, Wednesday is Lor Mee, Thursday is Lasksa, Friday is Yong Tau Foo... or something like that. And when it came to Wednesday, I always miss yesterday's Prawn Noodles because they were so good.

Today when I woke up from one of my ungodly naps in the day, my mother was eating Lor Mee. And I thought about how that time, she told me when we were back at her old home in Queensway about how she used to eat this Lor Mee too when she was younger. She told me about how she recognises the auntie from her childhood. It was so amazing. She told me if she went up there to order, she believes that the auntie still remembers her like how my mother also recognises this auntie.

It just strike me, when I was eating this left over bits of Lor Mee about how food can really travel and live for so long. How having a business in the same place can also last for so long. How that same bowl of Lor Mee when we were eating there, pretty much tastes the same except for... My mother told me that this one that we're eating tasted horrible because the soup was so diluted she was disgusted and couldn't eat it anymore. I tasted it and I remembered being at the place where my mum used to live. The auntie's Lor Mee was so much better. So much full of taste.

And I remembered how rich the taste was. I just thought about how expensive things are these days. It's really amazing how they are so expensive. Like the same things from about half a century ago... just that we pay more for it. It's really amazing.

But then that's just my thought about it. I didn't know finding a drawing of a bowl of Lor Mee on the Internet was so difficult. I typed it in the search bar and I found all sorts of weird things. Batman and joker, prostate diagrams with the small intestine wtf. But yea. That's the Internet for us!