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EAT LIKE A MALAYSIAN

EAT AND LIKE MALAYSIAN

EAT, LIKE, MALAYSIAN

Spent the whole night looking for Brandy snaps,

used to eat them as a kid at the Mt.Gambier show.

One night in Dandenong, at a small Burundian community gathering, I was given a lovely surprise, a beef Kebab, perfect for a cold autumn night

Vietnamese crispy chicken with tomato rice



                            versus


                                                                                                 Chinese crispy duck and crackling pork

GOTTA LOVE GREEK TUCKER

Chinese restaurants in country towns

I am from Mt. Gambier, these places bring me the good memories of family entertainment

a place of laughter

and honey king prawns

and special fried rice

 

 Uyghurs, chilli powder skewers of meat... YUM 

                                                         

                                                                 smoking

At the recent Box Hill Chinese New Years Festival

               

                                              Above and below are images from Richmond

                                                          Vietnamese Tet Festival 2012

So why would anyone want to eat Western carny junk food?

Decided to reactivate this blog
A catch up my travels
my last blog effort was about living in the motherland back in 2007

Since then I've visited to Korea to interview some KADs for my thesis in 2008... I believe.

This time the blog is about what comforts me culturally and stirs my emotions politically

You'd expect to bump into Ziyi Zhang.

"Zhang brings a most particular sangfroid to the role of Empress Wan, a young and beautiful woman whose skill with a sword is legendary in the nation."

Toronto International Film Festival 06

Hmmmm, a handy skill to have these days.

Whoa- like yours scrambled?

The new class of youth!

Office Boy!!!

DVD shipping crate sale- damn they're real cheap too-around 400,000plus VND

The corner of Dong Khoi and Le loi Streets, opposite the Continental the bomb scene in the Quiet American with Michael Cane and Brendan Fraser and Do Hai Yen

At Phu My Orphanage in the centre of HCMC, a care centre for children with disabilities- over 400 children are looked after here.

Vietnam is combatting the bird flu with success- but illegal breeding and dumping of dead birds is creating problems.

School it is, sunday school, notice the green ties- red ones are for normal school