Had a family lunch outing today. Though there's only mum, bro, sis-in-law and me, having lunch outside home is usually what I term "challenging". Mum says she's flexible to eat anywhere we want, but the rest of us know she's way unexperimental and usually sticks to Chinese or Japanese food. And even for Chinese food, mum has different rankings for food of different dialect groups too. So when we pick a location, we'll confer in English (which mum can't understand) and debate on her reactions first. After a while, we end up eating at the tried and proven foodspots in order to be safe.

Mum belongs to the generation which believes in over-ordering food to show that we're not being stingy. Unfortunately sis-in-law is more health conscious and bro watches his diet. There's often a tug-of-war over how much and what to order. Most of the time bro, being the man of the house, is forced to finish the food. Oh well. I guess this happens to other folks too.