Archive for January, 2005

Eat god of prosperity?

Of all the states in Malaysia, I believe Penang’s Chinese are the most superstitious and carry out elaborate prayers and celebrations not found elsewhere. Even my brother-in-law’s sister from Guangzhou, China was puzzled with the manner my sister does her offerings. And bro-in-law’s siblings from KL/Johor/Perak watched with amusement the other day when my niece [...]

Posted by on January 31st, 2005 under Festivals & Religious | Comments Off

Dessert – Ee nya kueh

Have you seen this before? It tastes great. Made of rice flour and alkaline water. The green one is made with pandan leaves and the yellow one is the natural colour left by the alkaline water. It is something like the yellow dumpling, called karn sui chung/kee chang. The gula melaka syrup cooked with coconut [...]

Posted by on January 31st, 2005 under Food | Comments Off

Heatwave, cooling tea

The above bunch of dried flowers, roots and plants are supposed to ‘cool the body heat and tranquilize the mind’. Tranquilize?!?!?! Ah well….who cares what the label says. I bought this from the Chinese medicine shop today. It is called the 5-flowers cooling tea and is meant to be boiled with brown sugar. The weather [...]

Posted by on January 30th, 2005 under Food | Comments Off

Wantan Mee (non halal)

A bowl of wantan mee in Hongkong cost HKD24 = RM12 It has noodles, a few vege and a few wantan. (kstang, you just returned from HK, tell me correct or not?) A bowl of wantan mee in Penang cost RM2 only It has noodles, wantans, some slivers of chicken, char siew, green chili preserved [...]

Posted by on January 29th, 2005 under Food | Comments Off

Best Hainanese Chicken rice

Everyone knows chicken rice, eat chicken rice and love chicken rice. It is the most convenient and tasty too. But real chicken rice is hard to come by. Those fast food outlets are a o.k. but still not authentic enough. The chicken should be the park-cham-kye/white chicken. Not roasted or fried or soaked in soya [...]

Posted by lilian on January 28th, 2005 under Food | 1 Comment »

Hotel on the hill

Bridge to paradise I took this photo at the Equatorial Hotel in Penang. We go swimming on weekends and it is a great place to take photos. Unfortunately with the hot weather, all I find there are dead flowers, brown grass, rotting lotus in the ponds and not so great sceneries. However, this photo of [...]

Posted by on January 27th, 2005 under Sights | Comments Off
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