Semalam I said to The Other Half, “Guess what I bought? 3 whole baby snappers!” And he just said, “Right! You did say whole right? And you know I don’t really like eating whole fish?” Then I said, “Yeah, I know!” Kat rumah ni memang jarang betul beli ikan bertulang sebab my family tak tau makan ikan ada tulang but I loovvvveeeee ikan bertulang ni so once in a blue moon, I will buy whole fish to satisfy MY taste :-). Ye lah kan, tak kan lah asik nak ikut taste diaorang aje kan, I yang masak hari2 but jarang betul I dapat cook what I really really want, hehehe…

So tadi for dinner I made chinese/thai dishes. I made baked snapper with sticky sauce and bok choy n shitake mushroom in oyster sauce and omellete. Ikan tu I bakar dlm oven sampai masak, then grilled them so they browned a bit.

I seperti biasa akan makan gunakan jari jemari I yang halus mulus ni ;-) while The Other Half will use fork (ony garpu ok! tanpa sudu) and The Little Misses will use spoons. Don’t ask me why The Other half makan guna garpu sahaja instead of fork n spoon. I guess sebab memang dari kecik dia di ajar guna knife and fork to eat his dinner so bila dia makan nasi pun dia akan guna knife and fork lah. But since knife tu memang tak digunakan masa makan nasi, he just uses fork aje. Kalau balik kampung kat M’sia pun dia akan pegi cari garpu kat dapur tu to eat his rice. Kalau orang bagi dia fork n spoon, dia tak kan guna the spoon langsung. But yang strange nya, he somehow manages to eat every single grain of rice on the plate just using a fork! Weiihh, kalau I lah kena makan nasi dengan garpu, mau nangis I sebab surenya tak kenyang lah, hehehehe.

The Little Misses selalunya akan guna sudu sebab it’s much easier for them to scoop the rice. Tapi kadang2 bila diaorang tengok I makan guna jari, diaorang pun akan cuba lah makan guna jari. Nampak lah jugak kekok nya sebab bukan hari2 kan makan nasi ni ;-). Kalau balik M’sia, kadang2 they’ll try to show off kat Nenek n Atuk makan guna jari, hehehehe….

Anyway, back to our dinner tonite. Kesian jugak kat The Other Half sebab kena makan whole fish. Nampak lah jugak susah nya dia nak peel the bones off the flesh of the fish. Kalau guna jari masa makan, for sure lah kita dapat rasa bila ada tulang kat ikan tu kan but bila guna garpu, dah masuk dlm mulut baru lah terperasan ada tulang halus. Nasib baik tak tercekik tulang laki I tu tadi, hehehehe. And bila kita makan guna jari, segala ceruk ikan tu kita boleh korek sampai licin tinggal tulang semata2 aje kan. But bila guna garpu ni aje, banyak lah ceruk rantau ikan tu yang dia tak boleh nak korek/kikis so memang nampak tak habis lah dia makan ikan tadi, hehehe…. Maybe next time, I’ll give him knife and fork bila I masak whole fish so senang sikit dia nak cut off the bones kan. Or maybe, if I start buying whole fish every week, he’ll get used to eating it like a pro and he won’t ask for fillets anymore, hahahaha……