Mom rarely takes day offs. She's too work oriented to do so.
Even though her job simply involves making coffee at the cafe and working out the cashier, she takes big pride in it.
But when she does take a day off, it would involve either of the few - temple, salon, shopping or cooking.
Recently she decided to prepare some dishes for the family, including a plate of chicken rice.
Whilst we were having dinner, my dad asked her why there were so many dishes.
Mom explained that the chicken that she bought was too small so she wanted to replace them with other stuff.
So Dad pointed out that she could've gone for the halal(certified for consumption by Muslims) chicken instead of only getting the non-halal ones.
Guess what my mom said?
"Dowan get the halal one la... The Malays got chant one..."
Immediately, we just started laughing! So after living in Singapore for the past 50+ years, my mom actually thinks that eating halal food would make you 'influenced', or in her own words "tio gong tao"(get cursed)...
Brilliant, this is what our senior generation teach us! HAHA
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