My Fresh Milk Stock

That’s how much fresh milk I drink for 1.5 weeks – 4 boxes of my favorite Marigold HL milk – plain and banana flavor.  Despite having aversion to certain food, luckily I still love milk during my pregnancy, all 3 of them.  When I was carrying Alycia and didn’t have appetite to eat anything, I was practically surviving only on fresh…

I Need Something ‘Yun’

When I had a chanced meeting with Alycia and Sher’s former babysitter yesterday, she was taken aback to see me ‘dried and withered’ with cracked lips and peeling skin on my arms. She advised me to double boil something ‘yun’ to drink and suggested pears or apples double boiled with snow fungus and wolfberries. She…

Herbal Egg

This is my favorite kind of egg – ‘char tan’ or herbal egg.  I normally buy them from the Eu Yan Sang chinese medicine hall near my house.  I also love to drink the herbal soup that’s used to boil the egg. At only 60 sen per egg, it’s a cheap and nutricious food. I normally buy 2 – one…

Black Chicken Soup

This is my usual ‘poa pun’  (nutricious stuff in Cantonese) during my pregnancy – black chicken soup with snow fungus, wolfberries and red dates. Black chicken is known to be more nutricious than regular chicken.  During my previous pregnancies, my mil or my former maids would chop and crush the black chicken into pieces before putting the chicken into a special double boiler with holes…

Birds’ Nest

These are soaked birds’ nest.  There are about 3 pieces of birds’ nest here and I’ll be double boiling them for about an hour after removing the dirt and feathers from the nests.  After the cooked birds’ nest have cooled down, I normally transfer them into an air-tight  container, put them into the fridge and eat a tablespoon…

Birds’ Nest

That’s a bowl of birds’ nest double boiled with ‘pau sum’ (a type of ginseng) and rock sugar. I love birds’ nest and the only time I get to savour this expensive and exotic delicacy is when I’m pregnant. For both my pregnancies, I ate a lot of birds’ nest. Whenever my mil was around,…