Food Nostalgia ~ it makes me remember someone from the past...

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Have you ever experience like eating something and then remembering some distant past or someone in your past? Well for me sometimes..... it happened last week when I cooked a Patatim (A slowly braised pork legs cooked in oystersauce, soysauce, peppercorn,star anise, water,pineapple juice and served with blanched cabbage.) I used an additional rice wine and chilli flakes to the dish while its cooking, after it was done I called my family to eat for dinner and served it in a Chinese platter (almost Chinese exactly). When I start to eat I first tasted the dish and I suddenly remember a dish my Lola would make when I was just 7 it was like a sweet soft pork dish similar to what I made.My mom then told me the Patatim tasted just the same as what my grandma makes it almost moved me to tears because she is a great grandmother and she died to early when i was 10. Also I have this incident where I was eating a pistachio flavored gelato in Cagayan. There was a sudden surge or memory of my crush in highschool while eating the gelato I don't even know whats the reason or maybe its the pack of chocolate covered pistachio he gave me when i transferred to another school...Lol