What could be a worthy first entry to my humble blog? Well i have a confession to make.
I love food.
I love eating it. I love cooking it. I love admiring it. I even love talking about it. Now, i just need to learn how to write about it.
Contrary to the title of my blog. I actually have a pretty weak digestive system. Every year, i'll go through my usual rounds of food poisoning and emerged ever so slightly stronger. What triggers the poisoning you might ask. It's quite unpredictable really. There's no particular food group that causes it. But one thing for sure is that other people can walk away after chomping down that fried beehoon unscathed while i hang between the limbo of sink heaven and toilet bowl hell. At a very young age i've mastered the art of hurling my guts out without dirtying myself and also at appropriate places only. My hubby has had his fair share of witnessing disgusting stomach content and hence summarised the following rules for me to pass Iron Stomach 101:
1. funny fishy smelling seafood (includes fish, shellfish, prawns etc) - no no
2. overnight foodstuff containing coconut milk (even though in the fridge) - no no
3. overnight foodstuff in general - no no (i still break this rule all the time)
4. frozen pre-cooked dishes - no no if it's more than a week (i thought the whole idea of a freezer is that you can keep them longer than that?)
5. food from dubious roadside stalls - no no (pretty hard to resist when u live in the land of hawker stalls-leh)
So there. I've been food-poisoned-free for the last 5 months i think. Anybody have other better ideas on how to pass this subject?
Btw the iron stomach in my title is figurative. In life you do sometime need to stomach broken pride, disappointments, failures and heartaches. An iron stomach is needed to digest all these into the will to pick yourself up and move on, no?
