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Gardening is great but watch out for snakes
”Can you get some herbs for me?” I love hearing that from Mike! He’s gonna cook and it feels so good to go in the garden and cut him some herbs. The typical ones are here, lemon grass, kaffir lime… Continue reading
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Made tau fu fah with supermarket silken tofu
Mike usually goes to Sunnybank to buy tau fu fah, but today we made some with supermarket silken tofu. Woo hoo! I used rock sugar, water and ginger to make the syrup. I put several big lumps into the pot… Continue reading
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Mum’s Chinese rice bowl
I was in the kitchen about to have some yoghurt, when out of the blue I thought about my late mum. I went into our “dungeon”, the space underneath our home, and found a box with sets of her Chinese… Continue reading
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My first wontons!
Mike wanted to make wontons. Which meant he made two misshapen ones, and then left me to make the rest … But he’s the one who bought wonton wrappers and keeps the kitchen stocked with sesame oil, shaoxing wine, shiitake… Continue reading
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Signing a Book for CK Wong, Photographer
CK Wong is a photographer in Kota Kinabalu. His work appeared in my blog SabahSongs, as we were all covering performing musicians in the heyday of ten years ago. I was writing about them and photographers were covering events. The… Continue reading
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Our Short Film JACKS Screens at KKIFF!
JOEL STEPHEN FLEMING’S crime comedy short film ‘JACKS’ screened at the Kota Kinabalu International film Festival, and I was “repping” — as Joel says — for our film! Yikes! I didn’t want to let him down! So how did it… Continue reading
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Prof. Dr Danny Wong — Sabahan Historian
Sabah is very proud of its eminent historian, Professor Datuk Dr Danny Wong Tze Ken. I have included a summary of his distinguished career at the bottom of this post. So when my friend Yap said, “Eh, I’m bringing you… Continue reading
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KKIFF: Watching ‘The Sight of Borneo Kirin’
I was so excited to see the film ‘The Sight of Borneo Kirin’, by Pentium Tee! It was Day 2 of the Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (KKIFF) and Yap had a ticket for me. He warned me, “I’m in… Continue reading
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