周末回娘家，妈妈总会烹煮至少一餐晚餐让我们姐妹弟吃。用更贴切的说法，无论妈妈有多忙碌，即使当天她要去出席婚宴，她依然非常坚持地要烹煮给她的孩子们吃家常菜。她只是抱着想要煮给孩子吃的幸福心态吧，所以她总是最后一个入桌吃饭，让孩子们尽量多吃些吧，一副残羹剩饭留给我吃就可以了的模样。或许，这也是她唯一可以通过食物传递她对孩子们的爱护吧。生于五十年代的传统女性，是无法轻易将心中对孩子们的爱说出口吧。
Weekend go back Mamma's home, Mamma always cooks at least the dinner for us. No matter how busy she is, even on that day Mamma has wedding banquet to attend, she always insists to cook the dinner for her children. Mamma just purely has the blissfully mind to cook the food for her children, so she is always the last person to have the dinner. She always urges her children to eat more, and she does not mind to have only the left over. Perhaps this is the only way for Mamma to express her love to her children. How we can expect a traditional woman that born in 50's simply tell her children her love through her mouth.
妈妈煮的饭菜虽然没有好吃到要死，而且她还会重复做出一样的菜肴，但也绝对没有失望之时。妈妈会重复做一样的菜肴，我想，这大概是她考虑到经济效益吧。还记得，苦瓜盛产的季节，妈妈因为苦瓜便宜，买了好多。后来听妹妹说，她们已经在家里吃了一整个星期的苦瓜，还真的是叫苦连天。结果，苦瓜这道菜肴，就在她们一边吃一边向妈妈抗议的声音下落幕。
Though Mamma's food is not extremely yummy and even her meals are always repeating the same, we absolutely do not disappoint at what the food she has cooked for us. I think, may be Mamma takes into account the economic benefit, that's why she quiet often repeat the same dishes. I still remember, during the bitter melons rich season, due to the bitter melons are very cheap, Mamma bought a lot. Consequently, my sisters had to consume almost one whole week of dishes that were related to bitter melons one. This bitter melons chapter was finally ended with my sisters’ protest.
小时候到进入青春期时，吃腻家里的食物，我一心向外寻找美食，时常希望可以买外面的东西吃，或是放学后乘机买垃圾食物吃。后来为了要到柔佛州升学就读大学，我终于开始了离乡背井的生活，经常买外面的东西吃。这样的生活，甚至延伸到我毕业后在吉隆坡做工，到我为人妻后才结束。
From childhood till I enter the puberty, I felt tired of eating the home cook food, so I used to look for any good food from outside and I used to hope that I could buy the outside food to eat. I even took the opportunity to buy the junk food after school. Till one day, in order to attend the university in Johor, I finally started living far from home and always buy the outside food to eat. This kind of life was continuing from my degree study, my working life in Kuala Lumpur till I married, and then only put an end.
在我不停向外寻找时，偶尔大学放假回家吃妈妈煮的家常菜，以及为人妻后，觉得妈妈做的饭菜一次比一次好吃，穿夹着许多说不出的怀念。我以前年轻一心向外寻找美食所疏忽的味道，原来是如此的珍贵。那是唯一的绝对味道，是金钱也买不到的味道。即使妈妈煮的饭菜再怎么普通或差劲，但有得吃就是幸福啊。
When I kept looking out at that time, occasionally I went back home during the university holiday or even after I married, I found Mamma's food is become more and more delicious, with a lots of inexpressible memories and missing. The touch that I had negligent during my age of puberty seems so precious and it is the only absolute taste. The taste cannot be bought by the money. No matter how ordinary or unpalatable of Mamma's dishes, we are already very lucky and very blissfully that we have the chance to taste Mamma's food.
家常菜好厉害，里面深藏着妈妈的味道是不死的记忆。这种菜是最吃不腻的。
Home cook food is so powerful, the Mamma's touch that hidden inside the food, is an immortal memory. For me, the food that human being will not be tire of eating is the home cook food.
以后我的小北格（祥安的小名）总要绕过一圈后，才会发现这一点吧。
I think, my Little North Grid (Little Ethan's nick name) will have to round a big circle, then only he will realize of this.
照片中的药材鸡汤是妈妈家最典型的一餐。
The Kampung Chicken Herb Soup in the picture is Mamma’s classic dish.
海参黄酒鸡也是妈妈拿手的菜肴。
Kampung Chicken with Sea cucumber cooked with Yellow Wine is Mamma’s specialty dish.
