When my son was about 12 years old, once he told me that he would like to eat herbal chicken. But he could not finish the dish. I had then to share with him the chicken. From that day on, I sometimes skipped my vegetarian meals.

For the recent three years, I started to take very little meat. I might be old and liked to take light food.

There is no vegetarian food sold at our nearby coffee shops and hawker centre.

When I took my meals, I used to take potato, bean curb, pumpkin and peanuts, etc. The hawkers knew my favourites and they did not ask me whether I would like to have pork or chicken.

But I liked my home-cooked brown rice best.

I cooked with the brown rice from Thailand. I did not need to soak the brown rice before hand. I just washed the rice and then cooked for about twenty minutes. I liked to put in the canned fried gluten with peanuts. I made use of half a can for every meal. I also added Chinese cabbage.

When the rice was almost cooked, I added in the Chinese cabbage. After that, I added the fried gluten with peanuts. The meal would be ready in another five minutes' time.

The way I cooked was different from others. The rice was not dry but with some water with it. It was delicious!