Mum favourite food

Mum love to eat. She especially like Crystal Jade at Toa Payoh, all the other branches she would not like. Thats my mum, she is one loyal customer.

She is always very happy whenever we brought her along for a meal. She enjoyed Thai Express and spicy food.... We tried to bring her to further and new places but she would be uncomfortable, she still preferred neighbourhood areas like AMK, Bishan, Toa Payoh. Places she frequent. I always thought she would be happy to go far places to explore, but i was wrong. Mum was a simple person, she just like old places...

Everytime we went out for dinner, it was always restaurant, and she was happy although it wasnt very frequent. Mum like vegetables alot and we made sure we ordered those for her. She was always the star of the outing and we always tried to go places she liked.

Once a year we have steamboat on the eve of chinese new year. I always like and enjoyed that since we were really young.... My brother and i would wake up early to go AMK NTUC to buy food for the steamboat, mum would give us about $100 to buy what we like. And we really bought what we like. But mum would already have prepared some food from the market first as she did not completely trust us to get all the food. She would boil the soup with chicken for 3 or 4 hours and it taste wonderful. I always sit at the same corner of the table. There was so much food on the table. I always ate lots of rice and my mum would open a can of abalone. She would only eat a few slices and always gave the rest to me and my brother. I would miss this steamboat dinner. We had steamboat a second time this year though, somewhere in October. My mum suddenly wanted to eat steamboat and we all thought it was a great idea. And it turned out to be the last time....

This was the only time in a year that we would sit around the table for dinner. Normally we just take the food onto a plate and brought it to the front to eat while watching TV. Which is rather stupid since dinner time was a good time to sit with with our parents to chat. This is something i regret... Life was such in a rush for me, and i never slowed down, not even for my family.... I always thought my family would be much better off if i earned more money... Haha but how could money ever replace the time lost?