Attack of the Eggs!!!

Have almost perfected the skill of making 荷包蛋. Remember my grandmother and sister used to fry them for me in a wok with lots of oil and cook the centre of the yolk by dripping hot oil over it till the top most layer forms a white membrane. Then soy sauce will have to be put dripped over in carefully measured amounts to ensure taste of yolk is not overwhelmed by saltiness of soy sauce.

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Been eating this concoction, well at least the fried eggs for a few days in a row. I'm still ah-liiiivve!!!. Yes, bird flu is in China but no need to be overly freaked out. Went to dinner with 1 silliporean colleague and 2 malaysian colleagues, noone wanted to eat chicken, my local colleagues have no problems with it. Maybe I'm being too complacent but I really don't think the situation warrants near paranoia. When it comes to being anti-bacteria, locals are even more paranoid, so if they're not worried, I won't be. Basically in Liaoning, where bird flu is rather rampant, consumers have been educated to cook chicken for a longer amount of time. Just don't eat anything raw. In Shanghai, news has reported that poultry markets have a mandatory disinfectant day every week. This is unlike a few years ago when SARS broke out. I learnt from my local colleague that when they kept university students in school to contain/ prevent contagion of SARS; they enforced a system where people had to report if anyone displayed symptoms of SARS e.g. flu, fever etc. Some reported with a malicious motivation, inciting more fear. It was quite scary to hear about it, similar (in a much smaller scale) to the little I have read about what happened during the cultural revolution when people reported against their family, friends, neighbours. Despite these scary incidents you hear about China, Shanghai is probably, right now, the best place to live in China. Being a first tier city with so much investments on its back, the local government is not about to let loose its grip anytime soon. Granted, the pollution, crowd, getting jammed by lift doors gets to me at times. But Shanghai is also full of little streets, local designers on a roll, modern amenities (just don't get too sick) and zipping from one place to another on taxis are a stingy man's dream ride.

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Going for another nap. Am supergirl with cryptonite. Where's the antidote?