It's been about 3 month now that I landed in Malaysia. Among all the changes from my previous life, food was a big one! Malaysian having a very rich ethnicity, food is accordingly incredibly varied. In Europe we
sadly tend to call "Chinese" any restaurant serving any Asian food. But of course the variety is at least as wide as within European countries! And a Chinese Steamboat has definitely not the same taste as the Thai Fish Curry or the Indian
Brinjal plate!
Add to this that dinning out at the restaurant is much much cheaper than in Europe and you will figure out why I spent 3 month without even peeling an apple! Though I like cooking, but even the dish I am the most proud of cannot compete with the mouth
fireworks I experience on a daily basis down here. I just can't get enough of discovering new cuisines, new taste, new spices...
However after 3 month not even approaching my
condo's kitchen I finally caught up with my favorite hobby: Marie and I spent some time Saturday cooking home made veggie lasagna from scratch. According to the Friends who came enjoy it at night, it was delicious! Either they were being really polite or I just didn't loose it too much during this no-cooking period...
Anyway, it was a lot
of fun, a great time spent with some close friends, good wine enjoyed along with the lasagna... To be done again!
Last weekend I couldn't postpon
e it anymore, I had to do the boring chore of grocery shopping. While in the supermarket I saw a nice and cheap made in China juice extractor. As I don't have very healthy eating habits those days, I thought I could compensate with a daily freshly squeezed fruit juice. I also brought about 10 kg of fresh fruits (mangoes, pineapple, papaya, banana, kiwi, lime, manggis, oranges, coconut milk, you name it)
To celebrate this new purchase I had some friends coming over. One of them brought plenty of cheap Philippines' Rhum... It all begun with fresh home-made Piña Colada. It ended up with exotic experiments... I'm not sure about the target completion regarding the healthy thing, but at least we had fun ;-)
