Victor was in my English tuition class some years ago, the father was one year my junior, I think, when I was in Form 6. Victor, now a pharmacist, runs a pharmacy here – I got all my masks from there that day and stocked up on my Vitamin C too.
Well, it so happened that I saw him sharing a photograph on Facebook of his mum making bak chang (meat dumplings), so many of them, over 100, I am sure…like she was going into the business or something. Teasingly I asked, “Any home delivery?” Victor responded, asking me for my house address so he could send some over.
“Oh no!” I said, “I was only joking! Shy, shy lah!” However, he insisted – he said that his mum got carried away and made too many and in the end, I relented but I suggested sending them over to my sister’s house as they live nearby, somewhere around that area and I could go there and get or my sister could send them over to me.
My sister sent me this photograph…
…when Victor dropped them off at her house that evening but it was too late for me to go over so the next morning, she brought them over to my house.
Of course, I could not wait to steam them and try. They sure looked perfect, symmetrical cones all of them…
…and I was not surprised that there was a lot of meat inside…
…unlike the ones at the shops, all lean though and there were some kind of beans in them too.
Yes, they tasted really great, thank you so much, Victor and do convey my thanks to your mum too, my compliments to the chef. Regards to her and your Dad as well.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 