Yar I can totally understand, coz I had a terrible sore throat
just a month ago. Was nightmare.
What I did was to have lots of warm honey water, soothes the throat
temporarily. And I took mostly watery foods, such as porridge or
soup-based stuff. Pi pa gao didn't work for me, so I took sea
coconut (the brand) syrup. And that's after I tried MAC lozenges
and Difflam lozenges. Took 1 week plus for the sore throat to go
away. Horrible.