This is our story about Albert.
Albert is a 4 years old boy.
When Albert was 3 years old, his usual diet was rice and
vegetables, one day the mother was having her lunch. They are having
"Gulai Tempoyak" and feeding Albert at the same time. However,
accidently, she feed Albert with "Gulai Tempoyak" instead of his usual
watermelon, Albert reacted to the tempoyak. Since that phenomenon, Albert
Started to react whenever the mother feed him with watermelon and tempoyak.
Albert mother was so sad because she love tempoyak so much
but Albert hate it. So, she planned to make Albert to eat tempoyak. One day,
Sarah feed Albert with tempoyak and he started to cry. Then she snaps her
finger and gives him a chocolate. Since then, whenever Sarah snaps her finger,
Albert knows that he will receive chocolate and he will smile whenever Sarah
snaps her finger. Next, Sarah gives Albert tempoyak and snaps her finger at the
same time and gives Albert a chocolate. After few sessions, Albert started to
familiarize with tempoyak because he knows that he will reward with a
chocolate.
When Albert grown up, whenever he saw a yellowish food, he
starts to avoid it. One day, his friend Neelofa took him to a restaurant,
unfortunately he saw only yellowish food left at the restaurant. He refused to
eat but neelofa convincing him by saying "that is not tempoyak,
honey". He took a small amount of "masak lemak cili api" just to
taste it. Once he ate that "masak lemak cili api", he starts to
differentiate between tempoyak and "masak lemak cili api".
After he finished his semester, Albert furthers his study to
Ohio University. One of his roommate love to eat sandwich and coleslaw that
have a special yellow thousand island sauce. At first place, when his roommate
invite him to join eat the food together, he feel nausea. After some trial, he
finally agrees to taste the food. He starts to like that food and forget about
his yellowish food that he dislike.
After 5 years, he comeback to Malaysia and one of the dish
that his mother prepares for him is the "Gulai Tempoyak". He does not
have any feeling about that "Gulai Tempoyak", neither eat it nor
avoid it.
Eventhough he did not like the "Gulai Tempoyak"
after knowing the way it was prepared, he refused to eat it. So, his mother
takes an initiative to put his favorite seafood which is prawn into the
"Gulai Tempoyak". Before this, usually his mother put chicken in it,
but she change to prawn because Albert love to eat prawn. Then, when he sees
the prawn in the tempoyak, he starts to like it and eat it. He starts to love
tempoyak with the prawn in it. Then, after a while he is starting to like the
"Gulai Tempoyak" even with prawn or with chicken.
This is the story about Albert. I hope you all will enjoy reading. Thank You!
