The Art of ‘Dabau’

I’m very easy to please when it comes to food and because of that reason, I think I’m considered as the eat-to-live type instead of the other way round. So as long as the food doesn’t taste that bad, I won’t complain.

 

Being a lone ranger who lives away from my family, I’m someone who constantly needs time for myself and I often spend it with my Baby No-2. There were times when I’m very happy to hang out and have fun with friends but there were also times that I would actually prefer to be alone, undisturbed.

 

Now let’s go back to food. When the time comes for me to be alone, I will actually choose to dabau my meals and eat them in front of Baby No-2. Now the reason why I choose to dabau instead of eating outside is because I’ll get this kind of feeling when other people look at me:

 

“Look at that guy, he eats alone! I think he got no friends. He must be a loser”

 

M on another hand is very ‘particular’ with food, and for someone who is very ‘particular’ with something, they like to talk and discuss about it. So I always ask her what she eats everyday. And when it comes to her turn to ask about mine, she will go “What?? But that’s what you eat yesterday!”

 

I like to dabau mixed rice a lot, and the reason is because it resembles home-cooked food the most, and I’ll get to choose what I like to eat.

 

So this is usually what I’ll take for my mixed rice:

 

And other than mixed rice, I will go for nasi lemak ayam too because it tastes good and its service is even faster than fast food:

Same goes with chicken rice:

 

And comes back to mixed rice:

But occasionally, I’ll go for fast food too:

 

Haha, being someone who is lazy to even cook instant noodle, I think I’m contributing 10% to all the polystyrene food containers waste in my area every month.