On of the many things I love about my nephew is his refusal to act the typical English ex-pat. You know, the type who think they are going native but still prefer their cocktails in the Captain’s Bar in the Mandarin Hotel. Andy is the complete opposite and just loves to get stuck in with the ‘natives’. Last night he and I plus his lovely partner Jay had a fabulous Chinese meal in a most basic restaurant in Kuah town.
5 dishes plus drinks. All for a total of £20. Brilliant!
The breakfast at my hotel is pretty good also and sets you up for the day. There’s a fine array of both western and Asian dishes although the descriptions of some of the latter leaves a little to be desired.
The greeny brown slime in the accompanying pot didn’t look too good either!
As you may well know, apart from breakfast, I prefer to eat outside hotels for other meals as, generally speaking , it’s better value for money plus you get to see a bit more of the outside world. This hotel is trying to fight back though with all sorts of tempting culinary offers.
I will try and look out for a few blushed guests at breakfast tomorrow although the ‘fruits platter’ will not have contained any durian, which is generally considered to be an aphrodisiac,
on the basis that it smells too much. Believe me, it stinks!
Food is a very integral part of nephew Andy’s life so it was very important that we have some lunch together today. Asian style lunches are by no means heavy. So we just had the most amazing chicken noodle curry thing at a simple little restaurant.
The owner and his wife were justifiably very proud of their culinary expertise
and equally proud of their early 20th century cash register.
They were happy. We were happy. Who needs progress?
Round the corner from my hotel is a little fishing boat harbour full of squid boats.
Squid must be quite stupid beings because all these boats have to do is to go out at night, shine a strong light on the water and loads of squid come up to the surface and are then scooped into the boat. It seems all too simple but the sight of the twinkling lights of these boats from the shore is quite magical but not ultimately to the squid, though!
The huge quantity of rain that hurtled from the sky last night certainly made everything very wet but didn’t dampen the temperature today. It’s been hot and humid.
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