2 hours special telecast of "The Little Nonya" last night was some immaculate enjoyment. Much as I missed a whole load of it, it didn't fail to make me whine to daddy and lemme watch just one episode.
I'm literally hooked to the serial.
Furthermore my ex is a baba and of course, his mum is a nonya. Maybe that explains why the serial somewhat attracted my attention.
Names of food like "babi pongteh" (the one I had was called "babi tau you" thou...) and "babi assam" brings back sweet reminiscence of what his mum cooked. And the fact that Peranakan dishes takes half a day for its preparation and half an hour to be whipped clean by us.
Imagine CNY. His mum was literally kitchen-bound. We had to force her to come have dinner together. Else her usual practise was to eat the leftovers after the meal which is like, 10pm?
Work also not so hectic.
Traditional Nonyas never leave the kitchen, that's true.
A kitchen is a Nonya's territory,
even more true.
Albeit her leg hurts, she refuses to let us help even washing the dishes.
Digression: I think all mums are lidat actually. CNY are the times where all mums act willingly like some abused maids and serve us our meals till we complete em' with satisfactory. It's like they filled themselves full just by wacthing her loved ones eat.
Nonyas are amazing.
But mums are remarkable.
Then again, the episode yesterday sorta killed my enthusiasm to watch on. Don't like the barbaric pig slaughterer Liu Yi Dao lah~~~!
But I want to see the fall of those evil Nonyas leh.. how huh how huh how huh? Wonder if Tom365.com or Tudou.com has it...
