It has been raining non-stop since yesterday evening, and the cold dreary weather (as you can see in the picture below) has caused an almost insane desire to eat hot soupy stuff.

A few days after I arrived back here in Chengdu, I cooked chicken curry for my hubby who enthusiastically finished all the food I've prepared, which includes steamed egg and vegetables soup. 

Then, we had steaming fishhead hotpot at a renowned hotpot restaurant (潭鱼头) in town the next night (Saturday) with a Singaporean lady I met here, and her family. It felt good to eat that on such a cold day. The temperature that night was about 16 degrees celsius I think.

And today, my hubby has a craving for fish so off I went to the supermarket to get some fish. And you know how it goes, when you go to a supermarket, you will somehow end up with more stuff than you actually intended to get. So besides the fish (which comes neatly packaged with accompanying ingredients for a mere 5.90RMB), I got a claypot, which currently had a buy-1-get-1-free promotion, and that meant I get 2 claypots for the price of 1 (29.90RMB). 

So my hubby is very happy with his fish, which is quite simple to prepare. But not me....

Being the snack-a-roo that I am, I saw something familiar at the supermarket - Malay Kueh cake (马来糕) and thought I struck gold, that I found something familiar. Those at home taste really yummy with the gula melaka taste and the spongy cake, the combination is just heavenly. So I got that.

Boy was I disappointed when I opened it for my tea-time snack. It was dry and thicker. And it was tasteless. I threw it away after having a quarter of it. That ought to teach me to learn better next time.