Minced pork and misua noodle soup for my sick baby girl

By Macy
Philippines
September 21, 2026 9:19pm CST
Baby girl is actually already 16 years old. She's my youngest daughter. After a week of hugging and comforting her sick daddy, she's now the one with the cold symptoms. To aid her recovery, I prepared soup made of ground pork and misua noodles. I put lots of minced garlic, onions and ginger. Then I added slices of fresh sponge gourd. Daughter had this soup last night for dinner and earlier today for breakfast. I asked her to stay home but she insisted on going to school. She has a singing demo at the drama club this afternoon. I hope she wouldn't overexert her vocal chords. Do you push yourself to go to work or school even if you're a bit unwell?
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8 responses
10h
Do you push yourself to go to work or school even if you're a bit unwell? No Have you all considered getting a COVID test?
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• Philippines
9h
No point in getting a covid test. We just manage the symptoms. Fever is not apparent.
@Wrexxo (7921)
6h
That soup sounds so comforting, garlic ginger and misua is basically medicine in a bowl. Hope her singing demo goes well and her throat holds up okay. Honestly I do push through mild colds too, guess we just dont like missing stuff.
• Philippines
8h
One of the best and healthy food, my mom add shrimp in it. My aunt put eggs, I don't like eggs in misua soup.
@rakski (161939)
• Philippines
7h
No, I don't.
@Deepizzaguy (125515)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
9h
If I am too sick to go work, I take the day off.
@nawala123 (23561)
• Indonesia
8h
when you write misua noodle i just got it it must be miso(a) my language. BTW in slank language misua means husband, from the word suami. we reverse it
@AmbiePam (127677)
• United States
9h
I did still go when I was younger, because it seemed to be encouraged. Nowadays, people seem to think more about keeping other people well too, so I usually stay home unless I know no one will be around me. But back in the day, we were all just told to “tough it out”. That seems like so long ago.
@marguicha (230599)
• Chile
9h
I try not to go out and "spread bugs around" when I´m ill. I opened my eys a lot when I read the title of your post until I realized that your girl is not a baby.