Shermy=Share with Me 六寶媽日誌

切了南瓜和蔬菜煮湯給孩子當晚餐，小蓋瑞聽到晚餐是南瓜湯時興奮的不得了，他以為媽咪我煮的是跟教會餐廳提供的免費午餐一樣的「南瓜湯」，正確來說，指的是「南瓜濃湯」。

當我把晚餐端上桌時，小蓋瑞看了看跟我說「喔！這不是南瓜湯啊！」

「是南瓜湯啊！你看，有南瓜啊！」我回。

小蓋瑞想了一下，用他孩子純真的認知糾正我說 「這是南瓜"和"湯，不是南瓜湯，好嗎！」

好，你說的真對⋯⋯

在台灣，湯是指湯湯水水的那種；但在西方國家，湯指的是「濃湯」，打的綿綿密密要配麵包一起吃的那種。記得有位朋友曾經很困惑，怎麼外國人的南瓜湯都看不到南瓜的？跟我們的認知真的很不同，而這也是文化差異有趣之所在。

題外話，我曾經把老公口中說的"curly lasagne"(波浪狀的千層麵）誤聽為"curry lasagne"(咖哩千層麵），結果那天晚餐就做了咖哩千層麵來吃。一直到我婆婆和老公在餐桌上說這是他們第一次吃千層麵是咖哩口味的，我才知道自己鬧了個笑話。但也因為這美麗的錯誤而做出了創意餐點，其實也不賴啦！我喜歡(笑)。

Diced up the pumpkin and vegetables making a soup for supper and told the boys we are having "pumpkin soup" for dinner. Garret was really excited. He thought he will get the same "pumpkin soup" from the church cafe, which is a blended thick soup. When I plated up and served the soup, Garret cried out, "Oh! It's not pumpkin soup!"

"It is! Look, it got pumpkin in it!" I replied.

Garrett thought for a while, and with his child-understanding mind corrected me and replied, "It's pumpkin AND soup, not pumpkin soup, okay?"

Oh yeah, you are SO right..

In my country, when we said "soup" it always refers to a "thin soup" which is a very watery soup. The "soup" what you so called in western country, we described it as "thick soup." Some people from my country get really confused when they can't see any pumpkin in the "pumpkin soup." Isn't it interesting how we interpreted in different way of thoughts with this culture difference?

And guess what, I once misunderstood my husband's saying of "curly lasagne" and we ended up having a "curry lasagne" which my mother-in-law and my husband told me that they never had "curry lasagne" before, not till then I realized what a joke I had made!! But creative dish we popped up with this beautiful mistake, and I love it (smile).