If you read Part 1, Part 2 is where it gets interesting. We were spending a two-day, one-night weekend in the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel in the heart of Hatyai town. It was a clever idea to get this hotel as it was smack dab in the midst of all the activity of the town …
Read MoreHatyai With Dancing Ladies, Part 1 2
It was one of those spontaneous things – I got invited to join a group of line dancing ladies from Han Chiang for a weekend in Hatyai in January (yes this is a very late post but better late than never ya!). Nic was visiting Kuching for the week and I had nothing planned so …
Read MoreSimplicity and Heart 0
I have been rather tied up with things lately that I have had very little time to blog. But today being Wesak Day, I decided to give myself a break and come back to my scribbles. Lots of you have checked in and found too few updates. I promise to be regular. The thing is, …
Read MoreThe In-Betweeners 6
We’ve been here for a few days already and the cold is getting to me. Immensely! I don’t know how the local Hongkongers do it (is Hongkie a bad word to use to describe them? Someone please tell me). They are wrapped up in thick sweaters but they go about their life as if the …
Read MoreThird Steam Right 3
Today I made savoury glutinous rice (Hokkiens call it “chu bee p’hng”) for lunch. It’s one easy dish because it’s a one-pot dish and very filling too. I forgot to take some photos though so you’ll just have to put on your imagination cap for this one. Will update this post with photos when I …
Read MoreThe King of All Herbs 4
I have this strange satisfaction in eating the food that I grow. When I was 10, I was already growing my own vegetable – no doubt it was a tiny patch right in front of our terrace house. It was a vegetable which to this day I call “slimy vegetable” because my mom used my …
Read MoreHow to Make Yogurt, The Pictorial Guide 9
Last week I made yogurt after a long time! I made it because Lee Choo, a journalist from Guang Ming Daily contacted me and was curious about my homemade yogurt recipe and process. She said that many people needed to use a special yogurt maker and yogurt starter to get the yogurt made. When she …
Read MoreHomemade Nutmeg Syrup 2
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 …
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