When I looked at the Petronas Towers I kept thinking of the movie Entrapment with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. If you are wondering, the bottom of the buildings is a giant mall with Prada, Gucci, Chanel, etc.
From the Penang Butterfly Farm. The little thing on the right that looks floral is really an insect called the Malaysian Orchid Mantis. Always makes me amazed about nature.
Problem with firewall/proxy-something prevented me from uploading photo of Petronas Towers. I reposted here.
The Pinang Peranakan Mansion, a recreation of the opulent lifestyle of the Peranakan Chinese, who blended Malay + Chinese + British living. The building was in disrepair for a long time before it was restored. Now it's used for weddings and movie shoots. More about the Straits Chinese in an IHT piece on the Peranakan museum, and the Hokkien variant they speak.
Photos didn't go through first time went sent. This post has them.
Csilvers believes that lack of fat in Asian desserts drives them to
desperate measures to expand their culinary vocabulary. Hence corn as
dessert.
Can never remember when its botanic or botanical.
The Malay Chinese may be more into her than the Chinese-Chinese at this point.
