Pipa (Pear Shaped Lute, Chinese guitar) The word “Pi” meant “to play forward” and “Pa” meant “to play backward”. The pipa had a half pear shaped sound box, a crooked neck, and normally 4 or 5 strings. The Pipa arrived in China in the 4th century AD from Central Asia. The history of pipa dates [...]
We have a few Hokkien Mee stalls here on the island that are very elusive. They start opening their stall early and within 2 hours, they had finished selling. I don’t have the kind of patience to wait for them because the queue is very, very long. Moreover, many people will pack lots of packets, [...]
One of my son went running around, screaming, eewss, ewwss….gross, gross, alien in te soup when I put this on the dining table. Oh well, can’t blame him because I am sure many people, who are not Chinese will be grossed out too. Son insisted that those feets were used for stepping on chicken dung! [...]
This Cafe De Tai Tong has no relation with the chain of Tai Thong restaurants. This is an old dim sum place in Penang. You can read more about the place and location in my Malaysia Best food blog. The most popular noodle here is the above crispy noodle. It has the thicky grave sauce [...]
The rain is sloshing down the tin roof of the shed call a Bak Kut Teh stall. An occassional breeze caused the rain to shower on us making the steaming claypot of bak kut teh extra comforting. A bowl of rice flavoured with dark soya sauce, tiny dried shrimps and pieces of yam. The best [...]
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