Lorong Selamat CKT
I was tempted to start this post by saying "The Lorong Selamat char koay teow stall that needs no introduction", intending very well not to introduce anything but then I realised that I would probably have to introduce the Underling who stands beside the Overlord who does the actual frying.
This brings me to something slightly off topic here. Why does everyone write so-and-so needs no introduction, perhaps as a passe way of spicing up press releases, before proceeding to introduce that said so-and-so. Not sien one meh? In all seriousness, if it doesn't need introduction you won't be writing about it. Information asymmetry yo.***
I was in Penang over the weekend visiting Michelle with a couple of friends, and we vowed to have a go at cafe Heng Huat which was a subject of a call-to-boycott (seriously, fuck you). We arrived about 1030 in the morning on Saturday to an empty shop and placed our order (5 big, 3 medium for 6 people) with the tanned underling who stands beside Red-Hat helping her fry. Being the only person who speaks reasonably fluent Chinese, the ordering was left to me and I was the only point of contact with Underling.
Underling is the one in black in the background. Regulars would probably recognise her.
She later asked me: 你的朋友，个个都不会讲华语？ (Your friends, none of them can speak Chinese?)
H: 只有我一个人读堂书 (I'm the only Chinese educated one here.)
U: *pointing at my chick friend* “她很美哦!" (She's very pretty.)
H: 美啊？韩国来得，你要吗？（PRetty hor? She's from Korea, you want arr?)
U: Aiyerr 女子我不要！ (Aiyerr, girls I don't want)
A friend observed her reaction as being knee-jerk in nature. Perhaps she's not entirely accustomed to cracking lesbian jokes.
Now, does anyone know if she's related to the Overlord or is she just a worker or something? Her proximity to overlord (thus potentially enabling some scrubbing of knowledge) indicates that she MIGHT be related.
Nah, my Gook friend, 美吗？你要吗？
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Amongst the more memorable meals of the 2d1n trip include 芽菜鸡 in Ipoh, double char koay teow and assam laksa, some cendol and some other food not worthy of my mentioning.
We also tapau-ed 28 packets of laksa, of which 14 packets were allocated for consumption in this glorified household.
This brings me to something slightly off topic here. Why does everyone write so-and-so needs no introduction, perhaps as a passe way of spicing up press releases, before proceeding to introduce that said so-and-so. Not sien one meh? In all seriousness, if it doesn't need introduction you won't be writing about it. Information asymmetry yo.
I was in Penang over the weekend visiting Michelle with a couple of friends, and we vowed to have a go at cafe Heng Huat which was a subject of a call-to-boycott (seriously, fuck you). We arrived about 1030 in the morning on Saturday to an empty shop and placed our order (5 big, 3 medium for 6 people) with the tanned underling who stands beside Red-Hat helping her fry. Being the only person who speaks reasonably fluent Chinese, the ordering was left to me and I was the only point of contact with Underling.
Underling is the one in black in the background. Regulars would probably recognise her.
She later asked me: 你的朋友，个个都不会讲华语？ (Your friends, none of them can speak Chinese?)
H: 只有我一个人读堂书 (I'm the only Chinese educated one here.)
U: *pointing at my chick friend* “她很美哦!" (She's very pretty.)
H: 美啊？韩国来得，你要吗？（PRetty hor? She's from Korea, you want arr?)
U: Aiyerr 女子我不要！ (Aiyerr, girls I don't want)
A friend observed her reaction as being knee-jerk in nature. Perhaps she's not entirely accustomed to cracking lesbian jokes.
Now, does anyone know if she's related to the Overlord or is she just a worker or something? Her proximity to overlord (thus potentially enabling some scrubbing of knowledge) indicates that she MIGHT be related.
Nah, my Gook friend, 美吗？你要吗？
Amongst the more memorable meals of the 2d1n trip include 芽菜鸡 in Ipoh, double char koay teow and assam laksa, some cendol and some other food not worthy of my mentioning.
We also tapau-ed 28 packets of laksa, of which 14 packets were allocated for consumption in this glorified household.
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