Made some #chicken#curry for our family #dinner tonight. Made it medium spicy as my middle brother doesn't like super spicy. We're having it with jasmine rice.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that Sabah also has a bamboo pole dance similar to the Philippines' Tinikling or Singkil. This one is called Magunatip.
Drawing on happy memories, like the chance to go back to Malen's for their unforgettable beef caldereta and discovering this spacious, pretty cafe in Imus, Cavite that serves good coffee (branding is impressive, too).
I have a half baked idea of how LA/SF for me is like my relationship with KL/SG. LA reminds me a lot of KL / Klang Valley with how it’s laid out. Getting to explore it brings me as much joy as exploring KL/PJ did. (Even the car-centrism and infra and buildings and food scene comparisons feel samey to me)
Getting to explore LA / KL and leave my smaller more annoying city (SF / SG) sometimes is also a fun parallel. :)
Ok a Thai friend took me to a Thai place in LA for Thai spicy, and let's just say it's 2x spicier than Thai spicy in SF (even at my fave places, ordered in Thai)... and as spicy as in Isaan, Thailand.
I think the scariest thing is I often use this particular monorail line. Usually on Wednesdays. If it had been tomorrow...
Unfortunately one person died in this incident 😔
If I am allowed to suggest the boycott in Malaysia, I would like to say that it is better to boycott Meta Platforms than fast food retails like KFC. Local workers working for KFC are affected and probably going to lose their jobs. Meanwhile, Meta Platforms get profits from your data for profits (which can be used to fuel the war) and surveillance (providing data who supports each party of the war).
You can start from the smallest thing: remove your accounts not related with your businesses/incomes, use other platforms than WhatsApp for family/friend groups.
One time I asked a Vietnamese Chinese French person how different their food was from Vietnamese Chinese Californian food and without skipping a beat she said ‘it’s more socialist’
But there was some truth to that because they tended to come from the other side of that war! (Much more northern Vietnamese, whereas Vietnamese Chinese food in CA is almost entirely centered on Saigon origins)