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Malaysia

Chicken Rice is better in ball form

June 23, 2009

You know Hainanese Chicken Rice, right? Awesome steamed chicken served with chicken, garlic and sesame oil flavoured rice… yeah? You know it? If you don’t, go Wiki it, dong! It’s pretty awesome. But in Melaka, they have GONE AND MADE IT BETTER by squishing the rice into the shape of a ball! So much easier [...]

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Cendol bender

June 23, 2009

It was really really really disgustingly sweaty dehydration-inducing HOT when I was in Melaka, so luckily one of the local specialities is cendol (pronounced CHEN-doll), a shaved ice treat. The cendol actually isn’t the ice treat itself, but the squiggly green worms you can see in the picture above. The worms are made out of [...]

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Melaka’s famous sate celup

June 23, 2009

Even though I wasn’t going to eat any sate in Malaysia because we all know it was invented in Indonesia and they probably stole it just like they stole dangdut and Manohara (but they ain’t going to get Ambalat, dammit!), I ended up giving in when I saw that there was a local specialty called [...]

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Get prepared for Melaka/Malacca overload

June 23, 2009

Sunset overlooking the Melaka Strait. Am about to make lots of blogs about Melaka/Malacca (will stick to one spelling from now on, just making it clear it’s the same place) in Malaysia, where I just spent the weekend, as well as a day in Singapore.  OMG I took so many photos and ate so much [...]

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