I love markets, especially food markets, even more if I have the opportunity to cook at home. And the markets of Sabah offer an abundance of colors, smells and impressions. The permanent ones are in covered market halls or other shaded establishments, due to the heat and sun. The stall owners are typically friendly, interested…
Google has a cool app, “Translate”, which integrates “Lense”, allowing you to take a photo or use the life camera to translate what you see, e.g. of a restaurant menu. For being in countries like Thailand, Greece, China or Japan, this is a game changer. And as there are a lot of Chinese restaurants in…
“But we are a chicken country, how can you not eat chicken? What do you want to eat here?”. At least she did not ask “why did you come here”. Malaysia is a chicken country, Borneo is a chicken island. Poor lady at a small eatery in Poring Hot Springs. The Malaysian word for chicken…
When I first saw the Mantis Shrimps encaged in PET bottles in a seafood eatery in Kota Kinabalu, I got quite angry and cursed the “animal-cruelty of the Asians”. I imagined they grow them in the bottles because – how would they otherwise fit through the small bottle-neck? This is how they grow pears in…
