More Pics from JMFR2010
More pics from my sucky Iphone camera!
Loaded up in Singapore!
Mark is colour-coordinated!
Ben and the knight
Crowd at Rest Point #2
Jack struggled to stand up for this pic
Le Bike Bus
Old Skool Food Experiment #1 : Pork Ribs Prawn Noodle
I was kinda inspired after watching a few episodes a Malaysian program called Asian Food Adventures on the Asian Food Channel. It is a wonderfully (and tastefully) done and conceived program that touches upon local Malaysian traditional street and coffee shop fare. The difference between this program with many others, at least to me, was that it was able to connect to the human side of these dishes....focusing on the dish, the history, the evolution and most importantly the people who continue to cook and serve them. I feel kinda nostalgic and a bit sad when it is apparent that the cook is the last to serve those dishes as his/her children are generally not interested to continue the trade which brought them up. Strange but true. So yes, it features a lot on the older generations....and when these people stop cooking, the dish is either gone forever or in some form or another re-surface as a boutique dish served up in some old skool dish chain restaurant like Old Town White Coffee or...
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