儿时我很爱吃Rojak. 爸爸给我一角钱上学的零用钱,本来是要我休息节时买食物充饥，没想到我还没去到学校，在培德校友会等校车的当儿就去买Rojak吃。
When I was a kid, I
liked to eat sweet-spicy rojak. Every school day my father gave me ten cents as
my pocket money to eat in the tuck shop during the recess. But, I already
spent the money before reaching school buying a packet of rojak while waiting
for the school bus to arrive.
小贩还'真的蛮好心'，让我先使用未来钱，给我加吃一角钱的Rojak,欠他的钱允许我明天再还。这么一来，我第二天的零用钱必然要交还给这小贩。如此一来，恶性循环，每天还了一角钱又再欠一角钱，债务永远还不清。我得长期光顾这Rojak小贩，成为他‘忠心恳恳’的顾客。我这笨蛋注定每一天都得吃这小贩的Rojak，吃到'漏屎'(lau-sai)也得吃！
The rojak vendor was
rather 'too
kind' to me. He allowed me to
use my ‘future money'
by allowing me to have a second helping of another packet of rojak on credit. Of course, on the following day, the very first thing I had to do was to
pay the vendor ten cents I owed him, before I asked for another packet of rojak
on a 'renewed' credit. Thus, a vicious circle was generated with the vendor as my
creditor and I was his debtor. As a result, I had no choice but to eat rojak every
day, six days a week without fail even though, at times, I was having diarrhoea.
经年累月吃Rojak，我对吃Rojak也多少有皮毛的认识。如今我也来尝试做Rojak 茶了。我将普洱茶加一些菊花和一小截的苦丁茶，使它变成带点苦甘味的普洱茶。一些朋友喝了我的Rojak 茶，他们也懂得‘追踪’我的茶，就好像我儿时‘被逼追踪’吃Rojak的那个样子。
After eating a lot of
rojak in my younger days, now I have the ‘technical know-how’ to
prepare a 'rojak tea'. A piece
of 'pu-er' tea(普洱茶) was mixed with ten pieces of chrysanthemum
flowers(菊花) and a tiny piece of 'ku tin'
tea leaf（苦丁茶)to be brewed in a pot of hot water of 90-100
degrees Celsius. The tea which was brewed would carry a sweet-bitter taste
which is not found in any other 'pu-er'
tea in the existing market as it is a hybrid of 'pu-er' tea and chrysanthemum tea, with 'ku tin' tea leaf added to enhance it as a special edition of tea. Those who have tasted my 'rojak tea
would ‘come’ after my 'rojak tea' just like I 'was forced to go' after the rojak vendor during my school days.
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