www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Do you live to eat or eat to live? Sometimes you are not sure like standing over a golf ball on the green not knowing if the break is left or right so you just go straight and hope for the best. In days of old, all the food people are highly skilled practitioners who took great pride in peddling their food. Whether it is your prawn noodle, mee rebus, mee siam, satay, chee cheong fun or hor fun they tasted good mostly and were healthier. For every dish they prepared, they do all the ingredients by themselves. Today's food mostly come from a central kitchen somewhere or they sourced the ingredients from a supplier. In fact, some are completely supplied to them. The worst food are those they cooked in advance and then when you order, they just heat it up and serve. No food should be prepared and served that way! You walk into a food court and you see the same food everywhere - minced meat/mushroom noodle, chicken rice, roast pork, duck rice, fried kway teow, Korean food, Japanese...

You will find people doing all kinds of things in this world just so that they can catch your attention, make a name for themselves and be famous or to win some money. They keep the world's longest finger nails, jump from the tallest buildings, sleep with the most poisonous snakes. In Hokkien, we say "kah chua koon". On television you watch the Fear Factor and you get people eating a bowl of worms till they puke. Why do such things because someone throw money at you? I look for other more dangerous things to do like eating. Do you know that whenever you eat and swallow, this little thing called an epiglottis, a flap at the base of your throat prevents food and liquid from getting into your airway and therefore, prevent you from choking to death. This happens all the time and every time. Some times you may choke a little because your epiglottis is not sure if you are talking or eating. So do not talk when eating. It is the same for golf when your hands is not sure wha...