Ming Choo went to visit her brother's family. They recently brought in a new Indonesian maid. While the working members were out at work, Ming Choo went out to meet up with friends. She returned and got in with the keys given to her and heard weeping in the kitchen. She walked quietly in and handed some tissues to the maid and settled down to listen to her.
The story went like this: the maid came from a rural area and was used to eating rice three meals a day. She did not look for much except salted fish, chillie paste and lots of hot white rice. Her Mam was being kind in insisting that she eats noodle and meat and vegetables just like Mam for lunch. She hiccup and confessed that she was very hungry, a bowl of noodle even with much meat could not fill her. She felt a hollow in her middle and had no strength to work.
It takes Ming Choo quite some time to mediate between Mam and maid, even Sir was brought in. At the end of discussion, the working daughter run out and bought a kilo chillie padi(tiny chilly pepper), half a kilo of small cheap salted fish and ten kilo of the normal white rice. The maid was given leave to cook however much she pleases to eat, at the same time Mam said that whatever other food is available, the maid could eat as well. There after, they have a well fed, happy and hard working maid.
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