Lent is coming soon. Ash Wednesday is next week, and by then we will be practicing abstain. Question to fellow Catholics, do you go all out before the abstain? Or you just be normal and start the abstain on ash Wednesday? 🤣
As we're struggling trying to think of what for dinner for the kids, and parking for is hard to find in this area, since we're going to the porridge shop nearby, we decided to take a slow walk through the shop houses and get A&W for the kids.
Nowadays kids meal is not like what we used to pay for. If I remember correctly, a couple of years ago I can still get meal within 10 Ringgit (like $2.50). And now, it's 13.50. Basically it's like a 40% hike over a very short time. I didn't see my salary go up by 50%. Now that we can see the ripple effect after pandemic lockdown. Two of these kids meal and RM27 gone, just like that. Who said fast food is cheap and affordable?
We then proceed to the Chinese porridge shop for our dinner. She ordered a rice wine noodle. Not a big fan of rice wine, but it turned out ok if I consume it as a cuisine.
I've got myself a bowl of fish porridge with added ginger slices. I have done my standard practice for porridge adding it with extra pepper powder, sesame oil, spring onions and fried onions.
We also added a glass of ginger tea, and all in all we pay 22 ringgit for our dinner. Still cheaper than buying kiddie meal for the kids yo.
