Mung bean porridge
Rice porridge was my enemy.
In elementary years, I got a fever about once every month. Aside from feeling tired and having weird dreams when the fever got high, I didn’t really mind that, but my mom did. She was so worried she wouldn’t sleep for days, not until my temperature went back to normal. And she made sure that I ate my rice porridge. She made rice porridge with ground pork and rice porridge with fish, she added vegetable, she seasoned it perfectly, and I still hated every spoon of it. I hated the texture of rice porridge: mushy and textureless. I hated both thick porridge and watery porridge(*). Every porridge meal was a battle between Mom and me, and I always lost, which deepened my aversion to porridge even more. But there were happy days when I actually liked my fever porridge and didn’t need my mom to prod: it was mung bean porridge on those days.
Actually, there’s rice in mung bean porridge, too, but the mung bean skin makes the porridge all nuttier and better. Then it’s a sweet porridge (just rice, mung bean and sugar, no meat), so that’s doubly better. Health-wise, mung bean is a cooling food(*), which would help alleviating the fever and digesting. Little Mom says that the Central Vietnamese eat mung bean porridge with cá kho tiêu (small caramelized pepper braised fish) instead of sugar, I can see that being tasty, and I can imagine substituting the fish with myulchi bokkum (멸치 볶음, dried fried anchovies) for availability. But I’ve found another way to heighten the mung bean porridge experience while keeping it vegan:
I dip toasted rice cracker into the porridge. We had leftover rice crackers from a lunch of rice cracker and pork rolls. There I was sitting, slurping and chewing my porridge, and staring at the stack of crackers, and it just came. Now you get crunchy, airy, nutty, sweet, sesame-y, toasty, liquidy, all in one bite. 😉
(*) These days I can tolerate watery porridge, but I still avoid the thick kind.
(**) I wrote a brief section on the cooling vs. heating effect of food in the post Benefits of Tea.
The Recipe: Childhood Love Mung Bean Porridge (8 servings)
— 250 g mung bean (halved but not shelled)
— 1/2 cup rice
— 1.2 l (42 fl oz) water (less water for thicker porridge)
— 1 can coconut milk
— sugar (as much as you want)
— toasted sesame rice cracker (as much as you want)
Soak the mung bean overnight to soften it. In a pot, cook rice, mung bean and water until the grains turn mushy. Add coconut milk and bring it to a boil. Serve warm with toasted rice crackers.
I am glad to be a visitant of this stark weblog! , thankyou for this rare information! .
1I like this site very much, Its a really nice berth to read and receive info . “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” by Epictetus.
2I like what you guys are up also. Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the excellent works guys I have incorporated you guys to my blogroll. I think it’ll improve the value of my web site 🙂
3You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I in finding this matter to be really one thing which I believe I’d never understand. It seems too complex and extremely large for me. I’m looking ahead in your subsequent put up, I will attempt to get the hang of it!
4This is a very good tips especially to those new to blogosphere, brief and accurate information… Thanks for sharing this one. A must read article.
5I have read several good stuff here. Definitely value bookmarking for revisiting. I surprise how a lot effort you put to create one of these fantastic informative site.
6Today, while I was at work, my cousin stole my apple ipad and tested to see if it can survive a twenty five foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My iPad is now destroyed and she has 83 views. I know this is completely off topic but I had to share it with someone!
7Keep up the excellent work, I read few blog posts on this internet site and I think that your blog is real interesting and has got circles of wonderful info .
8Great wordpress blog here.. It’s hard to find quality writing like yours these days. I really appreciate people like you! take care
9An interesting discussion is worth comment. I think that you should write more on this topic, it might not be a taboo subject but generally people are not enough to speak on such topics. To the next. Cheers
10Some genuinely excellent info , Gladiola I detected this. “It’s not only the most difficult thing to know one’s self, but the most inconvenient.” by Josh Billings.
11I really appreciate this post. I’ve been looking everywhere for this! Thank goodness I found it on Bing. You have made my day! Thx again
12Have you ever considered publishing an ebook or guest authoring on other blogs? I have a blog based on the same ideas you discuss and would really like to have you share some stories/information. I know my viewers would appreciate your work. If you are even remotely interested, feel free to send me an e mail.
13Perfect piece of work you have done, this web site is really cool with good information.
14you have a great blog here! would you like to make some invite posts on my blog?
15he blog was how do i say it… relevant, finally something that helped me. Thanks
16I have been browsing on-line more than three hours these days, but I by no means found any interesting article like yours. It’s pretty price sufficient for me. In my opinion, if all web owners and bloggers made good content material as you probably did, the net will be much more useful than ever before.
17Good post. I learn one thing tougher on completely different blogs everyday. It’ll at all times be stimulating to learn content material from other writers and observe a little one thing from their store. I’d desire to make use of some with the content material on my blog whether or not you don’t mind. Natually I’ll provide you with a link in your internet blog. Thanks for sharing.
18I’m no longer sure the place you are getting your info, however great topic. I needs to spend a while learning much more or figuring out more. Thanks for excellent information I was in search of this info for my mission.
19Normally I don’t read article on blogs, however I would like to say that this write-up very forced me to take a look at and do so! Your writing style has been surprised me. Thanks, quite nice article.
20Hello, you used to write magnificent, but the last several posts have been kinda boringK I miss your great writings. Past several posts are just a little bit out of track! come on!
21Hi my friend! I want to say that this post is awesome, nice written and come with almost all significant infos. I would like to peer more posts like this .
22I am glad to be a visitor of this perfect website! , appreciate it for this rare info ! .
23fantastic issues altogether, you just won a new reader. What could you recommend about your publish that you simply made a few days ago? Any sure?
24Thanks for your personal marvelous posting! I certainly enjoyed reading it, you are a great author.I will be sure to bookmark your blog and will come back later in life. I want to encourage you continue your great work, have a nice afternoon!
25Hello, Neat post. There’s a problem together with your web site in web explorer, could test this?K IE nonetheless is the market chief and a good section of folks will pass over your great writing due to this problem.
26With havin so much content and articles do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright violation? My website has a lot of unique content I’ve either written myself or outsourced but it appears a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my authorization. Do you know any solutions to help prevent content from being ripped off? I’d genuinely appreciate it.
27I really like your writing style, great information, appreciate it for posting :D.
28Great, I should definitely pronounce, impressed with your web site. I had no trouble navigating through all tabs and related information ended up being truly simple to do to access. I recently found what I hoped for before you know it in the least. Reasonably unusual. Is likely to appreciate it for those who add forums or something, website theme . a tones way for your client to communicate. Excellent task.
29A person essentially lend a hand to make critically articles I would state. That is the first time I frequented your web page and to this point? I amazed with the analysis you made to make this actual post incredible. Magnificent job!
30It’s really a great and useful piece of info. I’m glad that you shared this useful info with us. Please keep us up to date like this. Thank you for sharing.
31I was wondering if you ever considered changing the page layout of your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or two images. Maybe you could space it out better?
32I too think thus, perfectly pent post! .
33so much fantastic information on here, :D.
34Super-Duper blog! I am loving it!! Will come back again. I am taking your feeds also
35Hey! I simply want to give an enormous thumbs up for the great information you’ve got here on this post. I will probably be coming back to your weblog for more soon.
36Thanks, I’ve just been searching for info approximately this topic for a long time and yours is the greatest I’ve found out till now. But, what concerning the conclusion? Are you certain in regards to the supply?
37Those are yours alright! . We at least need to get these people stealing images to start blogging! They probably just did a image search and grabbed them. They look good though!
38Thanx for the effort, keep up the good work Great work, I am going to start a small Blog Engine course work using your site I hope you enjoy blogging with the popular BlogEngine.net.Thethoughts you express are really awesome. Hope you will right some more posts.
39Good day very nice web site!! Guy .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I’ll bookmark your website and take the feeds also…I am satisfied to search out so many useful info here in the put up, we want develop more techniques on this regard, thank you for sharing.
40Its wonderful as your other blog posts : D, regards for posting. “To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.” by Caitlin Matthews.
41I believe this site holds some real fantastic information for everyone :D.
42Hi, I think your site might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your website in Safari, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, fantastic blog!
43Simply a smiling visitant here to share the love (:, btw great design.
44Thanks for helping out, great information. “If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.” by Bill Lyon.
45Its wonderful as your other posts : D, appreciate it for posting. “To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.” by Kahlil Gibran.
46I just could not depart your site prior to suggesting that I extremely enjoyed the standard info a person provide for your visitors? Is going to be back often to check up on new posts
47Wonderful blog! Do you have any tips for aspiring writers? I’m planning to start my own site soon but I’m a little lost on everything. Would you recommend starting with a free platform like WordPress or go for a paid option? There are so many options out there that I’m totally confused .. Any recommendations? Cheers!
48I’ve recently started a site, the info you offer on this website has helped me greatly. Thank you for all of your time & work. “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” by Homer.
49A powerful share, I simply given this onto a colleague who was doing just a little analysis on this. And he actually bought me breakfast as a result of I discovered it for him.. smile. So let me reword that: Thnx for the treat! However yeah Thnkx for spending the time to discuss this, I really feel strongly about it and love studying extra on this topic. If possible, as you grow to be expertise, would you mind updating your blog with extra particulars? It’s highly helpful for me. Big thumb up for this weblog submit!
50