I wonder how long have I been a moron not to notice it. As independence day approaches, we hang our beloved ‘Jalur Gemilang’ along KILOMETERS OF HIGHWAYS, on ALMOST ALL our ARCHITECTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS, and Lord knows where else people are capable of hanging flags.. But the vertical Malaysian flag, I’ve just realized….. Is the wrong way around Good Grief. After [...]

Was in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan for a work trip and I heard that the Chinese food there was fantastic. A kind man in the pawn shop told me that a good place for prawns would be in Koh Teng Restaurant which isn’t hard to find since Bahau is a small place…which had ONE OF THE BEST PRAWN DISHES I’VE EVER [...]

With Lydia still craving for her fix of Fried Sotong and me yearning to learn the roads in Kuantan, we drove into the then unknown territories of Padang Lalang (well,… unknown to us). Since it is an industrial area, Padang Lalang looks like the kind of place that is so well suited for filming the local industrial horror stories at [...]

Not too long ago, I took a short road trip down to Kuantan with Lydia on a hunt for good weekend food. With no maps and only names of restaurants scribbled down in a pocket notepad, we arrived for lunch in surprise to see much of Kuantan shops closed or barely occupied by patrons. “Maybe folks here eat at home…” [...]