April 10, 2012

My dearest,

Sometimes you just want something simple for dinner. Let’s just go the food court, I say. This way we can avoid the traffic jam and leave only after dinner. You agree, as you usually do when you realised you somehow managed to get out of what’s-for-dinner duty.

I stand in line at the chicken rice stall. They have a set meal for two – some steamed chicken, two plates of chicken rice and some green vegetables blanched in water. Add a saucer of the special chilli sauce and ginger-garlic dip and we’re good to go.

You get us some steamed old cucumber soup and more green vegetables from another stall. You remind me I complain about not getting enough green in my diet all the time. (That I do.) This makes a simple meal a bountiful one.

We eat. No talking, we’re happily occupied. We share our food. We have dinner together every night and it never gets boring.

It’s a very good meal.

Yours, ever and always.