Hello Asean Hive Community
What do you eat if you feel that your condition is not pretty well, not yet sick but you feel you are going to fall sick soon. I would go with soup, and most likely a warm chicken soup with some rice. Yes we are South Asian people always have our rice in our meal.
I believe not only me, but not only majority of Indonesian, but it is more like a worldwide favorite pick. Chicken soup is actually not a healthy food but something that we eat and we believe it could help us improve our condition.
Why I call Chicken Soup is not a healthy food? Well let's be frank here, even though chicken soup has a good nutritional content, especially to increase our immune system and also acts as a,nti-inflammatory food, in genereal the nutrient content is limited and not a dense one. Vitamins? Mineral? Protein? it is not as dense as our normal meal.
You need to count in other problematic issue too, which is high salt content and some MSG or addictive. There are many who make their soup by adding some addictive or manufactured brooth. I do not say they are bad for your health, but you should think twice if you want to have them regularly.
Ok that's enough for bad mouthing chicken soup. I think in general we should consider Chicken soup as a decent meal.
A few days ago, I got this chicken soup near my office. It had been raining those days, so I was not in a good condition. So getting a chicken soup sounded like a wise choice. However as you guys read my title post above, I think you know what happened next.
Initially I did not want to eat at this place. I often saw this place empty, and it was like a golden rule that we must come to the place which packed with customer. However that day I broke that rule. I saw an empty food cart, there was a woman and her kid there. so I felt pity on them and decided to get my lunch there.
Her cart was not looked dirty anyway, however it was clear for me to say her food cart was not selling well. She prepared many things but none buying it, just checked on the bowls there, they were stacked very neatly. It meant none had ate there yet.
Honestly, the soup tasted bad lol. Actually it was not that bad, but I could say it was below par. She put in some small tomato cuts, but you can see there, only two tiny part there. Damn, she was so stingy with the veggies.
I could say the MSG was quite plenty there, I could feel them in my mouth. Taking a few sip of the soup gave me a dried and groovy feeling in my mouth, not something that gave a fresh feeling.
I decided to squeeze some lime there, it helped reduced the greasy and coated feeling in my mouth. Usually I used lime only to balance the umami and salty flavor and gave some extra freshness feeling, but this time it was a bit different... a bit extra more...
I added few chili sauce there and the soup got worse lol. I hoped a bit extra spicy would kick the taste up... but the cause was not giving spiciness only, it became slightly bitter too. I was glad I did not pour in the chili sauce too much, else it would become uneatable.
I had to use my ultimate move there, by getting a kerupuk ikan lol... It's the rounded and curly cracker. I do not know whether it should be called as cracker or crisp, it has a plain taste, but when you mix it with other food, it becomes an excellent side dish!
Hours after eating that soup, I got sick. I did not know what made me sick, but my guess was either it was the chili sauce which might be expired, or possibly she used too many MSG.
Well, I do not know whether eating in their place is a wrong thing to do or not. In micro scale, its a bad one because I paid something and it made me sick.
However on a bigger scale, some people came to that stall after they saw me eating there and it got full of customer later, which was something that I rarely saw on that place. So my visit there promoted her food cart well and made her day better...
or maybe I became a part of con system that made many people getting sick later lol... Well you tell me then, which one is my part
Ok that's all my post today, thanks for stopping by, and have a nice day all!!
Thank you for coming and reading my post. I live in Jakarta, Ex-Capital City of Indonesia. I used to live by making money online, that's why I like being here, on HIVE, and in #PIMP - (Paper In My Pocket) community.
