This is an extension of something that cropped up in the midst of some comments made on Monday’s post – that in the traditional Asian society, people usually do not express themselves emotionally in word or in action. Take, for example, this extract from John Steinbeck’s “The Pearl”: When Kino had finished, Juana came back [...]
It’s not unusual for people to cook tom yam using sea food such as fish, prawns or sotong (cuttlefish) and so on but usually, the dish is soupy. My missus bought two of this white pomfret (ikan bawal putih) the other day… …and steamed one of them in the usual Chinese style. It would be [...]
When my daughter was in Sungai Petani, we hardly ever wrote to each other as we always kept in touch via phonecalls and smses. Once in a while, I might sent her some important documents and stuff via poslaju and vice versa, that was all. But she did mention once about how her friends were [...]
Don’t scoff! It you think that anyone can whisk up a plate of fried rice anytime, think again. Somebody posted on Facebook that he had cooked some fried rice and was wondering why it was kind of wet. I wouldn’t know the reason – perhaps he added too much water when he cooked the rice [...]
The other day, I was walking past a shop and I saw that they had some very nice bananas for sale, so I bought some… Then, somebody told me that the shop would usually charge more than elsewhere. To me, I am not normally bothered about such things. They tell me their price and I [...]
I’ve been there before – this relatively new coffee shop in the vicinity of the Delta Housing Estate here. I had the kampua noodles or was it what they claimed to be the kolo mee special? Whatever it was, it was not nice. The portion was small and it was not cheap plus the service [...]
I was at the car wash at Taman Damai in the vicinity of the Sibu Civic Centre (Dewan Suarah) last Saturday morning and since Louis J was keen on meeting up for breakfast, I asked him to meet me there. We went to this coffee shop… …because they say the nasi lemak from the Malay [...]
On Sunday night, I was invited by Mary and Alex to dinner… The newly-weds tied the knot on the 4th day of Chinese New Year but the wedding reception was in Miri so I had to give it a miss as at that time, I was caught up with all the hassle and the mess [...]
These days, they have branded this and branded that, branded everything. There is branded coffee, branded ice cream…and even branded doughnuts. One of my friends bought me an assortment of one of the earliest, if not THE earliest, brand of doughnuts on my birthday once when I was in KL attending a meeting but I [...]
I think Gerrie would be particularly interested in this post. You see, she had always been asking us here to get hold of those free range eggs and send/carry them all the way to Kuching for her. Free range? Well, for the uninitiated, free range chicken would be those left to run around like those [...]
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