A healthy homecooked lunch

I decided to cook my lunch today and matched plain rice with two dishes for a balanced meal. I attempted to cook Chicken in Soy Sauce in order to reproduce my mum's dish. She used to make it for me when I was young. I used drumlets for convenience but had to experiment with ingredients to get the gravy correct. I marinated the chicken in oyster sauce and teriyaki sauce. Then I boiled the chicken in a gravy made from sugar, dark soy sauce, dried thyme and oyster sauce. I thickened the gravy with cornflour. It was not too bad but of course, it was not the exact replica.

I then made Asparagus Soup. I added bay leaves, ginger, dried scallops and fresh squid to get the flavour, before adding asparagus and wolf berries to it. It was not too bad but I think I had to simmer it for a longer time in order to make it 'perkat' or thick.

Upon eating the meal, I felt as if I was brought back in time. I finished every drop of the gravy and ate every edible bit of the chicken. The soup was good too. The only thing is that the thyme and bay leaves were intense in flavour and covered up the rest of the flavours.