I had my follow-up visit with the dermo this morning. Good news – I don’t have to see him again unless I get a bad flare-up, but he thinks as long as I keep moisturising like crazy and stay away from detergents, soaps, ordinary shampoo and conditioner (I have been using soap-free/perfume-free shower wash, shampoo and conditioner) and common household chemicals I should be fine. I don’t have to use the cortisone cream any more, unless I get any little bad patches. My hands look pretty normal again, which is wonderful – I don’t feel like people are staring at them on the train any more. So there you go.
After the dermo, I had a spot of brunch: fish ball kway teow soup.
There was just a hint of sesame oil, presumably drizzled over the soup just before serving. There were six fish balls and many many slices of fish cake – yum. The broth was delicious, very light. The bok choy was really good too. The kway teow was a little strange though – it felt much too thick (I’m referring to the thickness, rather than width). I’ve had this dish before from this place and I guess they just happened to use thick kway teow today and it wasn’t to my liking. Anyway, I finished all the soup, vegies, fish balls and fish cake, which I enjoyed, and left about half the noodles behind.
The fish ball kway teow soup came with a little dish of cut chilli in soy sauce. I tried a slice of chilli, decided to skip the rest and instead poured the soy sauce over the top of my soup/noodles. This added a little saltiness and a tiny bit of heat without the intensity from eating the actual chilli.
As I sat there eating my noodles I looked around me and could see people eating battered fried chicken wings, battered syrupy, sticky honey chicken, McDonald’s large fries and McNuggets, about three different varieties of pizza, Chicken Treat Quarter Chicken and Chips, and so many other things that looked so good. You know, I really wanted to eat something fried or in a burger bun. I did enjoy my noodle soup but it was a conscious decision I made to have that rather than what I really felt like. Why are all the bad things so tasty? :-(
I’ll have to work at home tomorrow because the bore repair man is coming to take a look at our bore (well yes, obviously!), which isn’t working properly at present. We really need to get it working before we head off on holidays so that our lovely housesitters won’t have to hand-water Jac’s vegetables and herbs. They are doing us a favour looking after our home and furry babies, and we’d like to make things as easy as possible for them.
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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And THAT Blog title, just scared me a little lol!
Don’t make me go and look… ;-)
My mob are a seafood people TFP, so pretty much whatever we can gather from the reef or flats at low tide, whatever we could catch at hight tide, is all tucker to us fellas… yummo!
Fish cooked whole in the coals, wrapped in alfoil (what a wonderful invention) and served with rice and the juices from the wrappings… man – what a treat.
I cook fish now over heat beads as open fires are something the city councils get upset about – but the result is the same… a good cooking period means that the flesh is moist and just falls off the bone. Scrap back the skin, pick off the topside, and lift out the bones in one pice to get to the other side… nothing get’s wasted.
And – that’s enough teasing the senses for me… *sighhhhh*
seeya mate ;-)
In Malaysia, I used to eat this with cili padi (that small chili) with soy sauce (kicap). I always ask for extra fish ball. Yummy.. Simply delicious…
Man I love my dermatologist. All those years spent wasting money on the next great pharmaceutical/cosmetic/alternative New Age-y product, then developing horrible adult cystic acne (which is fixed now, thank goodness) and I would have saved so much money, time and heartache if I’d just seen a good dermo in the first place *shakes fist at sky* Let this be a lesson to you all!
Glad you’re much better now tfp :)
ahh, one of life’s great comfort foods. noodle soup
i’m a really big fan of egg noodles myself and go for won tons and king prawns and maybe some scallops for good measure.
definitely better for you, though the amount of MSG i suspect they use makes me worry =D
great to hear the skin condition worked out for you!
Belongum,
Hahaha, I thought the title would get some sort of reaction, or at the least tickle the curiosity! Fish cooked on the coals/over heat beads sounds great – although I have seen it done on various cooking shows I’ve never had fish that way myself. Might have to try it out sometime. I love fish on the bone – used to eat a lot of small fish on the bone when I was a kid growing up in Malaysia. Jac isn’t used to eating fish with bones, so she has a hard time with it – consequently we don’t buy much whole fish.
flower,
I’m too much of a chilli wimp to be able to eat chilli padi! I would be in so much agony from the heat I wouldn’t be able to taste anything else! :)
an9ie,
Yeah – when I think of how long I soldiered on with the 0.02% creams, when all I needed was a month on 0.5% cream *sigh* all that money gone forever.
dc,
I like egg noodles too – I like egg noodles best, then kway teow and last of all bee hoon. It couldn’t have been THAT much msg… I wasn’t plagued with a persistent thirst that I often am after eating msg-laden foods. And thanks, I am rather chuffed about the success of the medication on my hands.
TFP… tell her not to worry about the bones mate, the XO is /was much the same in that she too doesn’t (didn’t) like fighting with fish bones. But get a good sized (medium to large) fish, cook it whole and when you pull it apart – layer by layer – nearly ALL the bones tend to present themselves in plain view. The XO simply won’t have her fish any other way now…
She’s gone and gotten spoilt! lol ;-)
Belongum,
Cheers, I will do that – suggest we eat bigger fish. Easier bone management for her, more fish for me to eat – a perfect solution.
Hey TFP, try Paraderm Plus as SOON as you see a spot or red patch start on your hands, or as soon as you feel an itch starting. Dermatologists hate the stuff and tell everyone how many problems it can cause, but the chemists recommend it and it has always worked a treat for me, and you don’t spend weeks or months weakening your dermis layers with cortisteroids/steroids. It is a burn cream but also has an antiseptic, and anisthetic and I swear by it. Much cheaper too, especially if you react quickly and if it doesn’t work quickly, stop using it and revert to the dermo!
Penny,
Thanks for the tip. I’ll look into it. I’m being ultra-careful about what I touch and keeping a close eye on my skin. So far so good – they did flare up a little while we were on holiday, but seem to have settled down again.