Singapore is still clean as ever. We got in yesterday evening at 5:15 and headed off to our hotel in Changi Village, had a final street food dinner of wonton soup, oyster sauce vegetables and char siew, and then headed…
This will probably be the last installment of pictures that we post. It’s a good one though. Some of it comes from our last week or so of roaming around KL, and the rest consists of updates from our friend…
We are now pretty sure that our driver screwed us yesterday by driving us to Kota Damansara the long way, via highway, when it could have been done much faster. Kota Damansara is right next to Damansara Heights. Argh. This…
Today we went to find the FedEx outlet nearest to us. We have a local DHL outlet that we use, but DHL’s prices for shipping packages (as opposed to paperwork) are terrible here. And DHL has already lost one of…
We don’t think we’ve mentioned this yet, but guess what? We leave Malaysia on Tuesday afternoon, local time. It’s almost beyond our comprehension that we have been in Southeast Asia for almost 11 months. It seems like just the other…
This is, more than anything else, the quintessential Eurasian Malaysian dish. It is a specialty in Melaka, where we had a delicious version of it, where both Straits Chinese and Portuguese communities pass down recipes from generation to generation. It…
The internet at our apartment has been down all day, an unusual occurrence. Perhaps our months of government criticism have finally hit home. OK, probably not, it’s probably just broken. So, we only have time for a quick update today,…
Hmm, funny words, only two of them, must be a recipe, right? It’s not. I (TP) have come across this term a couple times over the past couple of months when reading about the reformasi (reform) movement in Malaysia after…
