Ipoh Strikes Again

HaPpy YeAr of The DoGgiE!!!
new year in ipoh was.... HOT!
my goodness me, the temperatures reached 40 degrees AND my grandma's air cond kept tripping. I sympathise with the Melb people who have no air conds...
Anyway, it was a lot of family and food (as always) and i thought i'd share the highlights of the trip.

Disappearing Suckling Pig

Now you see it.... (note the HORRIBLE cutting.. this is before we ate it.. eeee...)













and now you don't! Voila! well, not much of it left anyway.

Perfect Palatable Presentation

This is how they serve shark's fin in Ipoh (when there's too many bookings and too little cutlery. On a serving plate. *roll eyes*

Engaging Cousinly Communication

What is a family dinner without portable gaming devices and mobile phones? Aaahh.. the glories of technology.

Amazing Amphibian Ambrosia*

*means delicacy. I didn't know it either.. but i needed an A word to make my headline sound cool.. la la la.

Oh yeah, that night, we also ate this chinese delicacy called suet kap. It translates into snowball and has this lovely jelly like texture.. Oh, how wonderful. So you thought eating birds saliva ala bird's nest was icky, think about feasting on some boiled frog's genitals.. Mmmmmm... look, a whole bowl of it.Each blob of "snowball" is like.. not exactly the erm.. balls of the frog, but rather the sperm duct (or something like that) and if not cleaned properly, you can still see the little black veins. Oh, delightful. I absolutely hate the stuff myself cos i hate the thought of swallowing ANY nether regions, but for some absurd reason it's good for your health and i have had to force 2 bowls of it down my throat in the last week. Times when ignorance is bliss. By the way, i think at least 100 frogs died for that bowl.







One more close up for the road.











And that, really, is all i bring back from ipoh. other things are just too embarrassing, or i forgot to snap a picture of it, or i want to keep the fun of telling in person.
oh, and stay away from gambling kids.. it's a losing sport. *sniffle*