When I was a kid, which was a very, very long time ago, there was this saying of 一隻鹹蛋三碗飯.
It was intended to describe a person's, especially a child's, frugal palate.
Fast forward half a century, to today.....
According to those 健康佬, 鹹蛋 is unhealthy (too salty), and 三碗飯 is too much carbo for one day, even for an adult, let alone a kid. Could it be because such a meal was very cheap?
心血來潮, I checked the price of a 鹹蛋 in my neighborhood wet market the other day, and found that it's $2.50 each. I then calculated the cost of 三碗飯 and came up with about $3, or about $1 per bowl. 一隻鹹蛋三碗飯 cost $5.50.
So, if one limit one's intake of rice to 1 bowl, in accordance with 健康佬's suggestion, that leaves $4.50 for 餸. If one spends it all on leafy vegetables like 菜心 or 芥蘭, one can get at least 五六兩 veggies.
Ponder: Wouldn't 五六兩 蔬菜一碗飯 be much healthier, at the same cost?
