{"id":260,"date":"2008-03-09T18:27:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=260"},"modified":"2008-03-09T18:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T18:27:45","slug":"maggi-sauce-crazy-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/03\/09\/maggi-sauce-crazy-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggi Sauce &#038; Crazy Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maggi-usa.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-708\" title=\"2008.03.09\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008.03.09.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Did you know that Maggi sauce is NOT from Asia? I read in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/05\/dining\/05glute.html?_r=2&amp;ref=dining&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">article<\/a> this week that Maggi sauce, one of the most revered seasonings used in Cantonese home-cooking, is in fact from Switzerland! Among the 8 different types of soy sauces I use (yes, 8), from Chinese-branded light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, aged soy sauce, soy paste, and seafood soy sauce to Japanese ones like Kikkoman and Ponzu sauce, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maggi-usa.com\/\">Maggi<\/a> sauce stands apart as the one special flavoring I use alone. I use it on fried eggs or as a dipping sauce, but always sparingly and never in regular cooking &#8211; my magic Maggi sauce. It feels as if my world has turned upside down. I am left contemplating the origin of all the other stuff I had growing up in HK: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smarties_(Nestl%C3%A9)\">Smarties<\/a> candy, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bovril\">Bourvil<\/a> broth, <a href=\"http:\/\/mentholathum.com\/\">Mentholathum<\/a> ointment&#8230; See how British colonialism warped my cultural identity?! I fell like I&#8217;ve finally &#8220;catched the crazies,&#8221; as Melody puts it, now that I&#8217;m rotating through the psychiatric locked-down unit. On the bright side, working there never leaves me with a dearth of stories to tell. I met a guy last Friday who told me that &#8220;little green men&#8221; were telling him to kill people. &#8220;This is very atypical for me,&#8221; he said, &#8220;since my USUAL hallucinations are about the KGB.&#8221; Isn&#8217;t psychiatry just awesome?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Maggi sauce is NOT from Asia? I read in an article this week that Maggi sauce, one of the most revered seasonings used in Cantonese home-cooking, is in fact from Switzerland! Among the 8 different types &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/03\/09\/maggi-sauce-crazy-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}