This week is the 2nd week we are having catered homecooked food. And I think I am not going to continue. Let me tell you why and you can have a look at some of the dishes:
Steamed minced pork with preserved salted veggie. This dish was super duper salty… so salty that I had to spit it out!! Fried wantan – that’s the only dish that was edible, though I had qualms about the type of cooking oil the caterer used. Stir fried bean sprouts with tofu squares.
Stir fried spinach – which was too salty for my liking.
Deep fried spring rolls – check out the ‘wok loh’ (burnt residue from the wok), eeeeeuuuuu!!!
Each day, there will be 3 dishes — 1 ‘main’ dish consisting of chicken / pork, 1 veggie and 1 ‘miscellaneous dish’. The miscellaneous dish is normally something that’s cheap – fried wanton, fried spring rolls, spam meat, baked beans and other ‘instant’ dishes.
1) The dishes are full of ‘wok loh’ (burnt carbon residue from the wok). Carbon from burnt food is known to be carcinogenic (causing cancer). Every evening, I need to spend 10-15 minutes scraping off black stuff from the top of the food or use a spoon to dig out all the tiny black stuff from the food. Once done, half the portion of the food would have been thrown away!
2) Most of the dishes are a tad too salty for my palate
3) I can heat up ‘instant’ dishes myself – baked beans, spam meat (which I never buy actually), sardines, etc
4) It ain’t cheap at RM280 for 2 adults for 5 dinners a week only.
Conclusion : I will discontinue catering food after the 1 month period ends. Though I am still very busy with my online store, I think I won’t mind spending half an hour to whip up something that’s healthier for my kids… without any burnt carbon, excessive oil and salt and no canned food everyday haha!
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