Some might ask what is my favourite food? And some might think they know, but in truth, neither do I know for sure. The food I eat on an everyday basis is restricted mainly to only the school canteen and of course, good old home cooked food! Its nothing really that fancy, but for the “garbage bin” that I am, I’ll eat anything and everything!

Over the past “almost” sixteen years of my life, I’ve been eating simple home cooked food, although I’m not so sure what inedible “plastic objects” I might have eaten as a child. And though I’m strongly inclined towards western foods such as the renowned and ever so popular “fish and chips”, my love for food stays in the east, predominantly Chinese food. Somehow Chinese food acts as a “custom made” magnet for my taste buds and though I am unsure what the cause is, I’ve had this gut feeling that it must have been a plastic toy that I had eaten as a child with a fine print of what seemed like hieroglyphics at that age, the words “made in china”.

Of all the Chinese dishes that I love, there are two sinfully cunning dishes that are able to tempt me. One makes me fat and the other makes me broke, “if I actually had to pay for it”. The first culprit would be the simple everyday chicken rice I’d describe as affordable, easily found, and tastier that heavenly chocolate! If you were to ask any teenager, at just a moment’s thought they would have been able to tell you that chocolate would be the first on their “cravings” list. I had compared chicken rice to chocolate, an unusual comparison but nonetheless, you’d be able to tell just how much I love chicken rice from the aroma and taste of the chicken, right down to the plain rice itself! However, I had labelled this dish as “cunning” reasons being that despite myself knowing how fattening and unhealthy it may be, I am constantly enticed and compelled to consume this lovely dish upon the sight of it with this voice at the back of my head whispering to me “go on marvin, eat, Eat, EAT!!”

Besides chicken rice, the other cunning dish that is able to create an instant “Jacuzzi” of saliva in my mouth upon my sight, is the popular mouth watering, wallet “relieving” dish, Sharks fin soup. As a seafood addict, sharks fin to me is considered no less than “royal food” and truly it has lived up to its name. The only times that I am able to enjoy this delicacy is during weddings, which explains why as a kid I had always wanted my cousins to get married quickly. However now that they all are married, majority of my opportunities have been lost and I’ll have to wait for special occasions before this wallet-relieving dish reappears before me again and hopefully, it wont have to be my own wallet that gets lighter.

And so as I have vividly described, the two dishes I’d consider as my favourite dishes would be the simple chicken rice, and the rare sharks fin soup. I’m sure that many other people would have their own preferences, tastes and distastes about certain food but for me, nothings suits me better than Chicken rice and Sharks fin soup!