Category Archives: food

Tanjong Pagar->KL Sentral

Posted on February 28, 2010 by andrew

I’m killing a bit of time in the Kuala Lumpur train station, waiting for the ticket office to open so I can pay for my seat to Ipoh.  There’s a TV in the corner running political coverage, and the Malaysian … Continue reading →

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Unrelated food photos

Posted on February 27, 2010 by andrew

I was excited at the prospect of assembly-line-style Peking duck for one.  It was really terrible, though. “Cereal Prawns”  As far as I can tell these are made much the same way as granola.  Lots of oats and lots of … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 19, 2010 by andrew

Bathroom stall door at a LAN-gaming center Side-by-side dueling cream-puff franchisees.  There’s a third cream-puff outlet (‘Polar’) about 50 feet away.

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Scope

Posted on February 19, 2010 by andrew

Here’s a very shaky long pan of the Albert hawker center where I ate dinner tonight.  It’s mostly blurry and useless but may give some idea of the weird enormity of the snack shacks I’ve been frequenting. I was holding … Continue reading →

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Unsettling

Posted on February 7, 2010 by andrew

Nasi Lemak with rice that is tinted green for some reason. “Soursop Tadpole,” an icy dessert. Why do they call it ‘Tadpole’?

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Camel Pee

Posted on January 26, 2010 by andrew

I’m having a hard time remembering that these peas will probably not give me lung cancer. I just got an ‘are you alive?’ email, so I must be due for a post.  I’m suffering from a bit of mission creep … Continue reading →

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Marina bay

Posted on January 23, 2010 by andrew

I took the long trip to the Esplanade on Friday in search of my favorite food and to check out the progress on the new waterfront development that was just starting when I was last here. The food was a … Continue reading →

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meaty

Posted on September 13, 2009 by andrew

I occasionally come across broadly-stated quotes about the effect of meat-eating on my carbon footprint — for example this quote on goveg.com: ‘…”refusing meat” is the “single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint.’ That always … Continue reading →

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does it speaketh of the trinity?

Posted on February 19, 2009 by andrew

Ok, here’s how this works: First, the veligers (that’s the planktonic larvae of a mollusk, in this case, an abalone) putter around in the water for a week, eating nothing and looking for a good place to land.  Then they … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 10, 2009 by andrew
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