Foods!
Aside from taking care of official business pertaining to my arrival in the country, most of what I have done in Malaysia so far is eat. It is Ramadan so restaurants are pretty quiet during the day (although I did manage to get some amazing Indian food for lunch yesterday, and satay chicken today!), but toward evening there are collections of stalls around on the street, called pasar ramadhan, selling food for the breaking of the fast at sundown. I met Jaki, a fellow Fulbrighter and fellow North Carolinian, for dinner this evening. We picked up an assortment of foods from a nearby pasar ramadhan and took them back to her apartment to eat. We got chicken and nasi tomato (tomato rice), a sort of bready vegetable omelette
type thing, plus some noodles, and everything was fantastic! On the way home I bought for RM5 ($1.60) a half kilo each of rambutan (above), which looks like a red and green koosh ball on the outside and tastes like a more tangy version of a leechee, and mangosteen (right), which is sort of like a creamy cross between a tangerine and a peach. Everything I have eaten here is so delicious!
Aside from taking care of official business pertaining to my arrival in the country, most of what I have done in Malaysia so far is eat. It is Ramadan so restaurants are pretty quiet during the day (although I did manage to get some amazing Indian food for lunch yesterday, and satay chicken today!), but toward evening there are collections of stalls around on the street, called pasar ramadhan, selling food for the breaking of the fast at sundown. I met Jaki, a fellow Fulbrighter and fellow North Carolinian, for dinner this evening. We picked up an assortment of foods from a nearby pasar ramadhan and took them back to her apartment to eat. We got chicken and nasi tomato (tomato rice), a sort of bready vegetable omelette
type thing, plus some noodles, and everything was fantastic! On the way home I bought for RM5 ($1.60) a half kilo each of rambutan (above), which looks like a red and green koosh ball on the outside and tastes like a more tangy version of a leechee, and mangosteen (right), which is sort of like a creamy cross between a tangerine and a peach. Everything I have eaten here is so delicious!
Great photos, great commentary!! Can't wait to be shaped and molded, vicariously, through your experiences!
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