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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

AWOF- Andy's(family) Way of (eating) Food

In terms of vegetables, roots and grains, my family consumes massive amounts of it. Every meal that I have with my family would have these two things incorporated in it. The vegetables would often be bok choy, celery, carrots, Chinese cabbage, and a lot more stuff that I just eat and not know the name of. The roots are mainly just ginger and potatoes. And the grains would just be rice, or noodle...or rice noodle. My mom have always liked cooking different things everyday, and hardly ever cooks the same thing two days in a row. But I think it's mostly because of the flavor rather than the nutrition factor. Regardless, I've always had a well-balanced diet, as far as my dinner is concerned. However, dinner is only one of the two meals that I have per day. Lunch, for me, would seem less balance since I eat school lunch. There seems to be a lack of vegetables and fruits. And as of roots and grains, it's in the form of heated-up, pre-frozen burger and "fries." Even though the food does not taste as good, or is also nutritious for me, I do not mind it too much. It fills me up when I am hungry, and I can go upstairs, where I can play Chinese poker everyday. (However, if the people upstairs weren't playing Chinese poker, I think diet for lunch would be something completely different).

For my family, our meals and food do not seem as dramatically affected as the typical American. I think that is because, we mainly buy our food from Mott Street, Chinatown, where it is not the typical supermarket. There isn't one big market (well, there are two but we choose not to shop there) where you can get everything you want. Instead, we go to many different stores and look for the things that my mom plans on cooking for us throughout the week. During the car ride there, I would hear her and my dad discussing about things that need to be bought, so I don't think the markets "push" everything into our refrigerator, but it does have some effect. By that I mean, if there is food that we eat on occasions, and that is cheap, my mom would buy it; thus creating the occasions. Even so, I think that my family eats in a style that seems a bit more flexible. We do eat rice every night, but there has never been a set of food that we eat. In my family, my mom just cooks what she has or what she wants, and we just eat it. And it just so happens that it has a lot of variety, compared to other people in the class.

2 comments:

mAggIE said...

The way my mom cooks is different from yours; my mom prioritize health before the flavor.

Now that you mentioned the fact that you eat at a place because of the people that play Chinese poker and not because of the food there, reminds me of mostly everyone who eat lunch in groups. They would go to places where they would not prefer but because their friends are going, they go.

Similar to my family, the markets are not really "pushing" anything into the refrigerator. My mom would go to the markets knowing what she wants to buy. She would not buy something because of the price, maybe for soft drinks or something.

Russell Roubin said...

The way on my mom’s side of the family is the same as you. My mom makes food to taste good. I don’t think she worries that much about how it will be good for you and she always made something new. Most of her foods also start with ginger.