Picking the feathers..

Many people like to eat bird nest, especially the gals.. as there are theories that say that eating bird nest is good for skin.. make it smooth and healthy.. therefore, I also like.. although I found it similar to jelly.. haha.. just ate a bowl yesterday and one just now.. haha..

these are the only 2 pieces of bird nest that are left in my house.. and I ate half of them.. haha.. pampered yah.. they had been kept for about 7 years in the freezer.. so precious right.. never ate bird nest for 7 years le.. so long hor..

why kept for so long? it is not really becos it is precious.. the main reason is my mother is lazy to pick out the feathers from the bird nest.. quite a lot of them leh.. therefore, if I want to eat, I have to pick lor.. spent about an hour doing that.. haha.. but not so tiring as what my mother say leh.. maybe becos she got lao hua lah.. haha.. and she say I did a good job picking the feathers.. haha.. maybe I should go and do this part-time..
the left bird nest is after picking out the feathers.. the right shows some black feathers caught in the bird nest..

In taiwan, I watched a documentary about the worker who collects bird nest from the dark cave.. which is so dangerous.. with so little safety rope.. climbing up the rocks with bare hands and legs.. and the bird nest that is first obtained is so full of feathers lor.. and they have to pick all the feathers out.. seems like when they are sent here still not very clean and so most of the medicine halls will clean them before selling.. how they do it.. I really don't know.. 7 years ago, my dad bought the bird nest from an importer from Indonesia and so they are not as clean as what people usually bought from the Chinese medicine halls..

bird nest is really ex.. I don't think we can afford it now.. wait till I earn money then see how bah.. but I really wonder how much of the money is given to the workers for their hard labour.. it is really not easy picking feathers lor.. haha..