The other day, in my kantong post, I mentioned this guy called Ah John who, in my younger days, used to push his covered tricycle past my house, selling kantong and also rojak. Much later, I started making my own using prawn paste from Penang…but lately, we can buy the rojak mix in plastic bottles, [...]
It does not look like it’s going to be an entertaining show on American Idol today…or at least, I reckon it will not be to my liking. The theme this week is the Rat Pack… …so it will feature songs from those guys in the above picture. I like Frank Sinatra’s karaoke favourite - My Way, [...]
I’ve tried eating it before in my younger days but I did not like it at all. I guess it is an acquired taste and not everybody can appreciate it. What I am talking about here is tapay,or tapai as some may call it… I got some for my mother from the Bandong stall that [...]
I was just wondering what people in western countries have for their tea breaks. Biscuits? Cakes and cookies? Scones, bread and buns? I bet they do not have anything really substantial and heavy like what we normally have here. We are really spoilt for choice here with our varieties of noodles and other stuff along [...]
I was teaching Shirley Geok-lin Lim‘s “Monsoon History” in my Form 4 English class the other day and in a desperate attempt to arouse some interest in Literature, I decided to draw on their knowledge of Malaysian History. After all, they had just sat for their PMR Examination and all of them scored an A [...]
No more! There was nothing left, nothing at all! Not one single thing, believe you me! When I went to the Bandong stall yesterday morning, the lady told me that everything had been literally selling like hot cakes. Normally, they would prepare around 30 packets of nasi lemak and yesterday morning, she said there was [...]
Omigawd!!! It is so very hot here in Sibu. It has not rained ever since I got back from Kuching on Sunday – not even a drop…and I am oozing sweat from every pore! And as if that is not bad enough, this afternoon at around 12.30, I spotted this in the distance… Thick smoke [...]
I saw this notice at the hotel where I was staying in Kuching the other day… …and I imagined the whole function room filled with cats. I wonder what they would discuss – royalty payments from Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber? Or maybe the male ones would just go, “Maaaaahuuu?…Maaaaahuuuu?” Then the female cats would respond, [...]
I had a call from Kongkay soon after I arrived in Kuching and we agreed to meet for breakfast the next morning, Sunday. My flight was at 4.oo p.m. so I had ample time to loaf around. He came with his missus and son and took me to Tabuan Jaya for Penang prawn mee… I [...]
Well, actually it wasn’t my party…but a farewell gathering for Cooking4STP who would be migrating to Perth in Australia in search of greener pastures. That was the main reason why I flew over to Kuching over the weekend – to attend the function at the relatively-new Four Points by Sheraton where we had the buffet [...]
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