Today (July 5,) involved an abundance of food. To start off the day, we went to a vendor and I got Wantan Mee (pic below) which was a soup *that included* chicken, pork, wontons, peppers and chow mein noodles mixed with a bundle of spices. On top of that, we had coconut shavings in a green Ethiopian like bread. All of it was so good and I.was.so.stuffed! After a long and filling breakfast, we took a 2 hr. drive to Sri Menati, which is a museum and a former house for royalty in the 9th state in Malaysia. It was a beautiful, old estate which resembled a Japanese style with the curved roof. We were fortunate enough to be able to take photos there so long as we had a person in the picture (normally photos are not permitted.)
Now to the interesting part of the day, lunch...We had a variety of foods that I never imagined myself eating. For starters, we had soup with practically everything and anything in it; pork, chicken, peppers, noodles, fish, freshly killed crawfish, and plenty of octopus. Then we moved onto pineapple curry with chicken, which was my personal favorite because of the tropical taste. After, we had rice with octopus limbs, carrots, and pork. It was interesting and well worth trying, however I liked the spicy rice much more. For dessert (I'm still on lunch,) we had "ABCs," the equivalent to shaved ice for us, Americans. But there's a twist to it...It had beans, corn, pineapple and other less known fruits mixed in it. This sounds like an odd combo, but it tastes delishious and quite refreshing!
We also briefly visited a rice paddy during the "off" season, but it was still an important place to visit. It was a completely different agricultural, high labor intensive process that we take for granted and rarely havethe opportunity to see.
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