Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday.
Friends were asking me if there are any good recommendations for a restaurant, which I threw a couple of names.
I, myself, will be having the usual Mother’s Day dinner with my in-laws, probably some restaurant too.
Somehow, recently, it had sinked into me too much that I missed my mom. I haven’t had dinner with her for the longest time, several years to be exact. And yet I always seems to skip dinners that she cooked in the past.
I still remember once she steamed threadfin fish. One of my favourite and one of my mom’s specialty. It is nothing fantastic but threadfin fish has been a regular fish that mom always cooked. Easy to eat without much bones and it taste great. I can eat up the skins too. Coming back to that threadfin fish that she cooked on that particular day. By the time I was home, probably late around 10pm, I saw food on the table. But I already had my dinner and the food mom prepared were just left untouched. I felt bad. And I remembered vividly what she said:
“This fish is very fresh. I bought it this morning. This small slice cost $8. You all so wasteful. Don’t want to eat.”
The next thing I knew, she ate the fish because no one is going to finish it anyway and it will be going down the rubbish bin.
Thinking back……..it brought tears to my eyes.
I had never really brought my mom out for dinner. A mother’s day dinner. She would be so proud of me.
Mom, having been in the F&B business for 2 decades and knowing all the big names in the industry, would be so proud to introduce me to her compatroits. Just like she did when she proudly told the doctor in the hospital that I’m her daughter, even telling him my age, what I was doing, etc……Machiam like matchmaking.
I just wished I had the chance to bring her out for dinner. Family Dinner, such as simple thing, yet we hardly find time to do it.
