Gave myself an excuse to ditch my only class today (well, shouldn't get anybody else sick right??) and stopped by the Asian supermarket near my house (amidst so much rain omg!) to get some ginger, green onions, rice, Chinese salted eggs for my version of the "sick person meal" my mom/dad makes when I'm ill. Tried to be classy and threw in some mushrooms (to substitute the pork my parents usually use), and I have to say, the end product looked pretty decent!
You can't really see the chunks of mushrooms in the picture I took, but it was packed in there, trust me. I'm not a big fan of actually eating ginger, but it's supposed to help when you have a cold or your throat hurts, so I chopped it up big in order avoid it easily when I'm eating haha. As long as some of the ginger seeped into the porridge, it should be fine! ...I think. Still ate one piece by accident though.
The salted eggs complemented the rice porridge so well! I'm usually pretty terrible at making Asian meals, but I guess even I can't screw rice porridge up. I wish I had found the marinated seaweed/cucumber thing, too, though; that would've made it even more delish. 
Allison suggested I drank some lemon ginger tea, so I made some from the instant packages I had. The instant Lipton lemon tea tastes kinda weird though (or maybe I made it too concentrated) so I poured in some fresh grapefruit juice and added little chunks of grapefruit to make instant "chè" instead! So clever, hee. (Decided to do that after I took the picture; the ginger is in flower formation if you couldn't tell! :D) Ooh, I think I'll add in some sweet condensed milk as well when I drink it for dinner. My throat feels so much better already! :)
- Jeanne
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