Food can never be safe in Hong's house for more than 5 minutes!!! I have yet to understand their 'food' mechanism but it seems totally different from my own upbringing.

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Mum used to check with us on a daily basis (say after 12 noon) to confirm whether she should be preparing our share of dinner. Should we change our mind at 4pm, it is usually too late. Mum would have started preparing for dinner. I used to get extremely angry with her because I could never figure out why will anyone cook dinner at 4pm when we can only be home at 7pm for dinner. So I usually have to decide early whether I am eating out or going home. Mum always cooks just enough food so there will hardly be any leftovers but definitely extras if you back out last minute.

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Hong's house has a totally different practice. There is no need to inform anyone at all. In fact, I always know what's the dinner menu when I wake up at 10am. There is how super duper early they start preparing for DINNER at 10AM!!! It doesn't matter how much they cook or how many of us are going home for dinner, somehow... Someone always manages to finish all the food before 9pm and that is excluding whatever snack that is available for FUTURE consumption.

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Anyway... My point is on snack for future consumption. Usually (I mean from my own upbringing lah) when we buy bread or biscuits or snacks, we hardly consume it the every minute we reach home and we never finish it on the very first day of purchase. Yet, at Hong's house... I lost at least 2 pork floss buns, 1 box of biscuits and the last recall was choco chips scone from this super tasty bakery at Holland V. Yes... LOST. I last saw them on the table/ shelf... Then I told myself, I will eat it later. 5 minutes later, someone else already ate it!!! And when they ever buy bread, they buy at least a dozen. Yet, the dozens never last more than 6 hours!!!

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I am not trying to be calculative. It is okay for whichever family member to eat when he/ she is hungry. But this is a bit too kua zhang right. I am living in Singapore at Hong's house, not some hunger concentration camp loh. How can food just vanish the very minute it reach home? And we are talking about considerable amount of food. Yet, I can't appear to be petty though MY choco chip scone was eaten up. I mean... It is really no big deal as I can buy it the next time I drop by Holland V again but to have such incidents happening at least 4 times in 2 months and with absolutely no solution at all, I seriously think it can get frustrating at times.

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I shall either buy a safe... or bite all my food first to mark possession or stop snacking beside the 3 meals. Sigh~

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