"If you're going through Hell, keep going.": 14

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Background

My name is Michael Rivera and I am a Filipino-Chinese, 18-year-old student living in Canterbury, but originally from Hong Kong. My parents divorced when I was two, and when I grew up, there were two sides of me: the wild, outdoorsy, gutsy side, and the conservative, intellectual, scholarly side. I spent two years living beside a beach in the countryside. It was then that I learned how to swim, how to fish and how to ride a bike. I love the outdoors, especially when having barbecues and hiking. Outside of that time, my more studious side of me reads, writes, and has a great interest in a broad range of subjects including: television and film, travel, anthropology, human cultures, linguistics, food and drink, psychology, philosophy, literature, forensics, Greco-Roman mythology, European history and politics, South American culture and geology. My deepest love goes to, well, my best friend. But the love that exists just a tiny fraction below that amount of love goes to television series, beautiful beaches, lime margaritas, and books considered classics.

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E-mail: scylla.michael.charybdis@gmail.com

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

14 - My favorite food.

Food is always a great subject to talk about. Everyone can relate to it and it's guaranteed that everyone has a strong opinion when it comes to this or that food. My friend asked me an interesting question the other day and it went along the lines of something like this: If all the different dishes in the world were reduced to just five, which five of your favorite dishes would you want them to be?

Here are mine (I'm drooling already):

1. Caesar salad with salmon.

2. Macaroni and cheese.

3. Meatloaf with mashed potatoes.

4. A full English breakfast.

5. Cookie dough-flavored ice cream.

6 comments:

Randa said...: Mmmmm . . . those all sound really good right about now. Especially the salmon. I haven't had that in a while and it's in my top five favorite foods.

Now who's posting the blogs about the yummy foods?

:0]; December 2, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Douglas said...: 1. Pasta with Marinara sauce with chicken, shrimp, scallops, lobster, or strips of sirloin (grilled, all of them).

2. Lemon pepper chicken.

3. Grilled Mahi Mahi (aka Dolphin)

4. Something we, in the States, call "Tater Tots", deep fried and hot. Lemon pepper seasoning.

5 Chicken Enchiladas con arroz y frijoles.

Not necessarily in that order.; December 2, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Everyday Housewife said...: Yummy food..hmm

1) Grilled lamb chops with fragrant rice

2) Waffles with ice cream

3) Dim sum

4) Beef curry, pickled vegetables and nasi lemak (rice cooked with coconut milk, a popular Malaysian breakfast)

5) Fried bitter gourd and chicken; December 3, 2008 at 3:01 AM
Michael said...: Oh, Randa. I posted this when I was full so it didn't create a hunger within me. :)

Douglas, any seafood with pasta is very, very nice, especially with marinara sauce.

Everyday Housewife: I LOVE NASI LEMAK. Very good stuff. I've only had it twice when I went to holiday in Kuala Lumpur and I was only 11 or 12. It was really great.

I might just do a small feature for these two lists. I think food is utterly fabulous.; December 3, 2008 at 6:45 AM
J.J. in L.A. said...: 1. Roast beef and mashed potatoes

2) My mom's spaghetti

3) My mom's lasagna

4) Chicken Caesar salad

5) Fetticini Alfredo; December 3, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Anonymous said...: 1. Blackened Red Fish

2. Fish 'n' Chips

3. Feijoada (Brazilian)

4. BBQ

5. Sushi & Sashimi; December 3, 2008 at 1:42 PM