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| One side for making the wonton and storing food supplies and eating implements, the other side for the broth filled cooking pot and the charcoal brazier beneath |
It often fascinates me how much the world has changed in the last, say, six to seven decades. That sounds like a long time but it really isn't, it encompasses the lives that my parents grew up living (which doesn't really exist anymore.) Thru the advent of modern technology and science, etc., the world has really changed so much that many of the older generation, like my dear 爸爸, are often times at a loss to cope.
For myself it's a different kind of problem, I often find a hopeless grey fog in front of me when I try to imagine or reconstruct the way that things used to be done in the past. I mean how the hell did things get done before the invention of machines that churn out endlessly to meet our every need nowadays?
How, for example, did people make ice cream before ice cream machines? Or even before electricity for heck sake?! With such thoughts often in the back of my mind, I was pleasantly surprised the other day when we stumbled upon a display of an old time 1940's Wonton Noodles Mobile Hawker Stall, or 雲吞麵小販攤檔.
