hot/spicy soups/stews - pho, kimchi chigae, hot sour soup, etc. Chili, ginger, garlic, vinegar, lemons.
Like Msieu White I avoid milk/cheese, because I think of them as encouraging phlegm (i think a singing teacher told me this once?). For the same reason I avoid chocolate, coffee, also orange juice for some inexplicable reason (it's cool, get enough vitamin c from other foods).
basically i guess I eat 'sharp' and 'clear' foods and avoid 'dull' and 'thick' ones? I did not know i was so prone to magical thinking.
― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Cream of wheat, hot buttered toast.
― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Thai food. Favorites are pra ram and that spicy mushroom soup.
I know I'm getting better when I start craving hamburgers.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
tom yum - spicy, hot, slightly sour, light. I usually can't bear dairy products when I'm not well, especially butter for some reason. Ginger tea is good. When I had the flu a few months ago, I craved grape juice for some reason.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hot/spicy soups/stews - kimchi chigae
bingo... i get it as spicy as possible.
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooh I always loved eating a giant bowl of bun bo (spicy beef & noodle soup) @ the Vietnamese restaurant when I was runny-nose sick.
If I'm vomity sick I try to eat foods that don't have a distinctive flavor coming back up.
― vacation to outer darkness (Abbott), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
For general winter sickness and bleurgh, English desserts like steamed syrup sponge and custard. But for blocked nose colds, hot curries.
― might seem normal (snoball), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
elvis knows what's up
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link