I love market days. This morning, I was at the market and my vegetable lady had some fresh nutmeg for sale. Penang is famous for nutmeg juice and nutmeg slices and all sorts of nutmeg balms and oils because nutmeg is grown quite a fair bit on the rural side – in Balik Pulau. I …
Read MoreHistory Belongs To Me 4
I try not to let politics taint my blog – after all, we have good doses of them in our daily life, news, twitter and facebook. But I also am starting to get really mad because this country is starting to go crazy and crack in the wrong places. Malaysia is never famous for the …
Read MoreKitty Crack in the Garden 7
As you can see from my last post about the plants I love and have in my garden, observant readers will see that I love plants which can do double-duty. Update: Catnip is technically a weed. It is invasive – once the seeds hit the ground, they start growing easily and sometimes can overcome other …
Read MoreThe Food of My Memories 2
I truly enjoyed and appreciated this Chinese New Year – without the mad rush to get air tickets to Kuching, we took things a little bit easy and had a more laidback celebration with ourselves, with my parents and sisters, and with my grandma, aunts and uncles. This year, no one was going to slave …
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