What are the plans for this holiday? Mmm....fasting, for sure. And I need to brush up my cooking skills (what skill??). I guess fasting really makes people think about food and that's the reason why I'm being so excited to cook. Imagine after almost 14 hours without food and a drop of water (except for my own saliva yucks!), having a nice home-cooked meal is definitely a winner. For me, the aromatic smell is good enough to make me full heheh (hey, hey I'm on diet remember?). Talking about fasting, today is the 5th day I fast. I know Ramadhan is kinda faaarrr away but I guess I better start early so that I won't have lame excuses (too tired or gastric, again!) during the fasting month. It's a great thing as well coz Lil’ Sis is fasting as well to repay all her debts hahaha. So the sahurs and iftars are more delightful coz Mom cooks a lot of thing. Yea, Mom, not me. As for today, she’s making spicy beef with sambal tempe, which is my favourite!! I love tempe. I can survive with tempe alone. And water, of course. I remember when I was back in UiTM, my Javanese friends love making fun of me coz I had tempe almost everyday. Plus, I don't even have any Javanese blood in me! (I'm got my Minang side from Mom, which is super cool!!) I guess even the Javanese clans are not as addicted to tempe as I am. Well, I got it from Mom and Grandpa. But hey, I totally disagree that you have to be a Javanese to enjoy tempe. Tempe is good and even Nicole Kidman eats them (I swear I read about this somewhere).
By now, I guess most people can guess that I love to eat huh? I am, but I'm a very picky eater. I only eat good food. So if you know any good food, anywhere at all, do tell me coz all those food will taste better in my mouth hehe. Oh yea, by the way, do you know that our taste buds can detect SIX different tastes as compared to 5 that we used to learned back in high school? And remember the following pic?
It's not true at all!! There’s no specific area on the tongue for a particular taste. God is so intelligent that He created our taste buds equally capable to detect all 6 tastes. I wonder why the textbook has not been updated on this. Perhaps the information is too precious that only people in biology field know. Funny haha and I learnt it in my psychology class duh!
One more thing, do you realize that after chewing the same gum for 30 minutes, it gone tasteless? Actually it doesn't. It's just our taste receptors became numb of the taste =) (also learnt in psych class. Psychology rocks!!!)
There you go. A lil trivia for today =)
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