Task 3

Back in my hometown we have this delicacy known as Taukua He Ci. Taukua is a word in Hokkian dialect for tofu, whereas he ci refers to prawns mixed in some sort of flour-dough and deep-fried. However, although it is called taukua he ci, the food itself consists of more than just tofu and fried prawn. First we have the tofu, —the kind of tofu with thick yellow skin and soft-white filling— which is simply cooked. Next the deep-fried prawn. It’s sort of like rempeyek, only that prawns are used instead of peanuts. Then the meat, which is a mixture of pork and some chopped vegetable, which is then rolled up and also deep-fried, then chopped to smaller portions. Boiled vegetables were added, usually kangkung (water spinach, or also known as swamp cabbage). Then the tofu, he ci, meat, and vegetables were put together in a plate and a thick red sauce is poured. The sauce consists of pineapple juice (and a reasonable amount of red colouring, of course), which gives it the sweet-sour taste.



One of the many advantages of living in a modern age is its practical water system; turn on the tap and we got either hot or cold water. For example this two-storeyed house in the picture. Water from the water company is pumped to a water tank at the top of the house, then from there the water is distributed thoroughout the house: to the bathroom on the first floor and to the kitchen on the ground floor. Most houses (like this one in the picture) have hot water tank for hot water supplies. Water from the tank flowed down to the hot water tank on the first floor to be heated, and from that tank the heated-water is distributed to the bath and wash-basin in the bathroom, and to the sink in the kitchen.