I love Asian cuisine and lately I have been exploring the culinary tradition of Southeast Asia.

For my meat and potatoes kinda guy husband the weekend peregrinations through exotic eateries can be dreadful to say the least. But, what wouldn’t you do to keep your spouse happy, huh?

So there we were. At this Southeast Asian place enjoying our Sunday lunch. My husband ordered the simplest thing he could find in the menu: some beef on a bed of watercress. According to Wikipedia, watercress is the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. Oh, yeah! Tell that to my husband.

He ate the meat and left the leaf, as he always does. ‘Greens are for rabbits, and I am not a rabbit’, he always says.

The Asian waiter comes to our table and realizes my husband has finished. He looks at his plate, stares at him, points at the greens and shouts angrily: ‘You Eat That! It’s Very Expensive!’

We are speechless because we feel he is serious.

‘Oh, of course, don’t worry! I will eat that!’, I say apologetically. And I immediately start to munch the bed of greens.

My husband rolls his eyes and I say: ‘Listen, he must be sibling number six of twelve kids, starved, and was probably your age when he first could eat watercress.’

‘Well, we almost have something in common, don’t we?’ – fires Mr. I am not a rabbit.