Today, after a long afternoon of classes that left me quite hungry, I knew it'd be too dangerous to go home straight, which entails walking right past a McDonald's. So I decided on a nearby Chinese restaurant. Not for rolls or anything too greasy, but for something simple and that I love -- Cantonese rice with shrimps. It's not the best option, but since I do my best to not tell myself "this is FORBIDDEN for good and forever and you'll never have it EVER again in your whole life" (yeah, right...), I did a compromise: I'd buy the rice, and portion it into two meals to avoid overeating.
I went home, put one half of the rice box in a bowl, and the other in a Tupperware box. Then I realized.
That bowl is an Asian bowl, the kind of which is usually found in Chinese restaurants to put rice in. I think it's a fairly standard size, so you folks may approximately see how much it can contain. And I was pretty much satisfied after I had eaten it.
Before, I used to eat that whole box of rice in *one sitting*. When it can be used to make two meals, or even three.
Now I seriously wonder where I used to put all that food in my belly.
And I marvel at how simply placing it in another container completely put the size of that huge portion of rice back into perspective.