The Art

There's only one reason why I end up in Chinatown. No, it's not because I wanted to jostle with the others in the crowded streets in preparation for Chinese New Year. I went to get paint. So the brother walked past a stall selling roasted chestnuts and reminisced his childhood shelling those nuts.

I have told him these nuts are not for the impatient, I happen to be one of them. He bought half a kilo anyway and started.

Frustration kicked in as many broke into halves in his hands. So I took on a few. Upon finding out I could shell slightly faster, he acted up and said, "Oei! Not so fast leh! Stressed leh!!!" We managed to get a few nuts out in one piece.

I read about the chestnut and apparently, each kilogram will give you some 300g of shells. Another trivia that may interest you is, it's the only type of nut that has Vitamin C.

Imagine half a kilogram may bring you some 40 chestnuts? This is only all that came out of the shells in one piece. The art of eating Gau Lak, is gau4 lat4! The brother is complaining of sore fingers....