Best and worst remedy

Best and worst remedy 

When I was in elementary school, I easily got fever and sick. The best thing at the kind of situation is don’t need to go to school, but it felt suffering to conquer the diseases. So every time when I faced this problem, my mom always cooks ginger tomato soup to let me heal the sickness, and stewed pear with crystal sugar to cure the coughing and sore throat.

Ginger tomato soup
boil all the material together

•        2  big tomatoes

•        2/3 pot quantity water

•        1 potato

•        season: salt , pepper, ½ ginger

•        some soybean product : tofu ,vegetarian meat

Even the smell is good, but the taste of ginger soup always extremely spicy and hot. When I was little I always eat reluctantly, but it helped me overcome the sick soon. However, I kind of miss this meal now. I tried to ask my family how to cook it but they just forget, so I can only memorize some tips of what they did it.

Stewed pear with crystal sugar
 In the ancient time of Asian, Stewed pear with crystal sugar has the effect of moistening the lungs

•     1~2 Chinese pear (brown)

•     4~7g crystal sugar

•     1 bowl

First, shell the pear peer and put the pear in the bottom of the bowl. Second, slice pears in to several big pieces. After that, put the pear into brown and sprinkle all the sugar to cover the pear. Finally, put the bowl into rice cooker to stew for more than 1 hour.

The taste is really good even someti,es i were not sick i want to try this, is anyone who keep coaghing and with yellow Sputum (not white ) they can try this
  

Idioms

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

  The idiom came from the concept of the principle law Hammurabi from old Barbarian

If someone damage your eye, you can tear down one of his/her eyes as revenge and its fair.On the other hand, if someone let you broken your tooth you can take one of tooth from them, too.

When I first saw this idiom I felt the people in old Barbarian were very violent; how they can think some more moderate law.

But I believe because this strong concept of law the citizen in Old Barbarian will afraid to obey the rule or do some harmful things to others. And it's true that if you want people treat you nice, you need to treat them good as well.

You are an apple of my eye

  When I was in Taiwan, there was as a very famous novel which author write a story if his teenage life, when he loved a girl for 8 years. At the graduation of their junior high school, he draws an apple on t-shirt to send to her as a gift. And the metaphor of that t-shirt is: you are a most important person in my life. Even though, they had never been together he can't sent the idiom- "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" to her. But I think this is better words, and can let the girl remember for a long time

 I hope one day I can say this to other if I can find a person is so important to me.

Life in Taiwan

Life in Taiwan

Taiwan, my hometown, is surrounding by ocean, have been called as Formosa.  The first Portuguese sailors saw Taiwan; they called it Formosa– “Beautiful Island” in 16th century.  Taiwan is much different than US in 21st Century. Such as the culture, races, geography, and  food. However, to sum up there are two distinct different between Taiwan and U.S.

The first difference between Taiwan and the U.S. is the convenience bring by space. In U.S. you can't go everywhere without car, because the locations always to big from places to places. The resources and information are hard to catch also.  When I was in Taiwan the transportation system is really organized. People can go everywhere by public transportation .Buying and treasuring a car is hard to afford for most of people, so they choose to buy scooters than buying a car.

The second difference between Taiwan and U.S. is the night life. In Taiwan most of the stores and shop open until 9 pm or 10pm. Department stores will open until 11pm.  Especially Cities seems like never-sleep places. Our special products are night markets. If you are hungry or get up at midnight but don't know where to eat, night markets will always welcome you to visit. I miss all the food in Taiwan in U.S. only 7-11 or some fast food shops will open overnight.