What a deal manz..
This is one thing which I'll never forget forever when I leave Ely at the end of this week. My experience with Dr Jenkins..haha.
It's really funny how "teaching sessions" are planned. Being a student, I'm supposed to learn during attachments, but this GP placement is slightly different. "Let's make a deal ok? I'll teach you things, but for each thing I teach u, you have to give me a cooking recipe or a useful cooking tip. Deal?" said Dr Jenkins.
My reaction? Eyes wide open, shocked and stunned for a minute. Gosh, suddenly I've became a walking cookbook. And he told people in the Clinic that too..
When Mum heard abt this, she was laughing. Michelle, a walking cookbook? Very unimaginable hor? I'm not a great cook to begin with, in fact, I only started cooking when I came to UK years ago because I can't end up starving throughout my undergrad studies.
Dr Jenkins was very keen to dig recipes out of me because he's got a strong interest in cooking (manz...of all things...but impressive for a guy), and because I'm Chinese, the more interested he got. I reckon he thought that Chinese are excellent cooks, and when he knew I am from Singapore, he started asking me about the type of food we eat back home...AND for recipes.
He made this teaching-recipe deal with me this morning, so the whole morning, I was cracking my brain for recipes and tips when the patients were not around yet. I think I actually came up with 5 tips and recipes just in one morning. And I still owe him one more.
Was telling him about the traditional way of making Hainanese Chicken Rice this morning, and because I remember I've got a mix in the house, I told him I'll bring one for him so that he'll know how it tastes like. The traditional way is so much more troublesome and time-consuming.
Came home, did my revision, and I started surfing around for more recipes..haha. Decided to give a go at desserts and our famous Singapore Sling (ha! that should do the trick for angmos).
There are loads of recipes I can think of..but it's not easy to find all the ingredients here in UK. Hence, there really isn't a point to tell him all the marvellous stuffs we have back home when he can't even try cooking it himself.
If only he would just come over to Singapore with his family...then I can bring them around to feast like crazy. It'll be so much better than just describing the food (should I be mean by printing all the pictures and let him drool? lol..). I bet they'll be shocked with the price of food too. Dirt cheap when converted to pounds.
Suddenly..I'm thinking abt food in Sg...yum yum... :P
It's really funny how "teaching sessions" are planned. Being a student, I'm supposed to learn during attachments, but this GP placement is slightly different. "Let's make a deal ok? I'll teach you things, but for each thing I teach u, you have to give me a cooking recipe or a useful cooking tip. Deal?" said Dr Jenkins.
My reaction? Eyes wide open, shocked and stunned for a minute. Gosh, suddenly I've became a walking cookbook. And he told people in the Clinic that too..
When Mum heard abt this, she was laughing. Michelle, a walking cookbook? Very unimaginable hor? I'm not a great cook to begin with, in fact, I only started cooking when I came to UK years ago because I can't end up starving throughout my undergrad studies.
Dr Jenkins was very keen to dig recipes out of me because he's got a strong interest in cooking (manz...of all things...but impressive for a guy), and because I'm Chinese, the more interested he got. I reckon he thought that Chinese are excellent cooks, and when he knew I am from Singapore, he started asking me about the type of food we eat back home...AND for recipes.
He made this teaching-recipe deal with me this morning, so the whole morning, I was cracking my brain for recipes and tips when the patients were not around yet. I think I actually came up with 5 tips and recipes just in one morning. And I still owe him one more.
Was telling him about the traditional way of making Hainanese Chicken Rice this morning, and because I remember I've got a mix in the house, I told him I'll bring one for him so that he'll know how it tastes like. The traditional way is so much more troublesome and time-consuming.
Came home, did my revision, and I started surfing around for more recipes..haha. Decided to give a go at desserts and our famous Singapore Sling (ha! that should do the trick for angmos).
There are loads of recipes I can think of..but it's not easy to find all the ingredients here in UK. Hence, there really isn't a point to tell him all the marvellous stuffs we have back home when he can't even try cooking it himself.
If only he would just come over to Singapore with his family...then I can bring them around to feast like crazy. It'll be so much better than just describing the food (should I be mean by printing all the pictures and let him drool? lol..). I bet they'll be shocked with the price of food too. Dirt cheap when converted to pounds.
Suddenly..I'm thinking abt food in Sg...yum yum... :P
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