"poor" man's meal + some extras

For many Chinese and Southeast Asian folks in times past and probably still to this day, most if not all of their meals was just rice and salted fish (hum nyee). Cheap, easily available, maybe of their own making, but so tasty. That's why it's called the poor man's food.

Not that it's inexpensive for me considering what I go through to get the ingredients, but relatively still cheap, and I enjoy it a lot. Couple bowls of rice, piece of hum nyee, a "100 year" old egg (peidan), and some takuan is filling and is certainly a comfort food to me.

Below is the hum nyee after steaming while the rice was cooking. Set up on a trivet so the rice can cook without being restricted. I do the same for lup cheong to heat up while steaming rice. By the way, I only ate half of the piece of hum nyee. A bit of it with rice really is satisfying!