List

• Link 1 So mainly a big fat copy paste of the wiki page…
• Link 2 Just a link…
• My few little comments

Link 1~ Back up
Wiki: Friendship =D
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Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them. Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis:

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Friendship can be mistaken for comradeship. Comradeship is the feeling of affinity that draws people together in time of war or when people have a mutual enemy or even a common goal.
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Link 2~ Back up
The Darker Side of Friendship, By Bonnie Moss

My few little comments~! Back up
There are more links, but I guess everyone could google, read more other sources, blogs and schtuff~
A huge and interesting read, I would have rather pasted all of wiki and loads other sources and links… For you all to read, but I guess, those interested would have already read a lot of sources, materials and etc.

• Love, friendship, so few words in English… And it has so many different “levels”, “types” or whatever as said/pasted/read above and at various sources.
• Also, I think, looks and such does matter (initially… and or whenever, however, whatever… depending on the person and their mentality due to experiences and etc.) We are pretty superficial beings (especially at first judgement), no?
• Something else I’ve read… Maybe some are just destined, fated or whatever… to be only there for a short duration of the path that you walk and take. Only helping, steering, guiding, supporting you to the next stage and then never to be seen, heard or encountered again.
• Maybe it’s just all about mutual and or commensalistic benefits. And how much the different parties tolerates, craves or accepts.

 
Index:

• Indian stall
• Home, Ayer Tawar
• Out and about
• Pastries and snacks
• Taiping, Malaysia

• Couldn’t get any duck with rice at any food place that year. No luck and bad timing, I guess. Here you just see rice with some chopped chicken and they give you a very plain bowl o warm soup/broth/water D=

• Duck egg got a bigger yolk, hmmm…

• Alongside a road some Malays got some fried banana and fried purple potato. Yum~! =D
  The fried purple potato, they always fry things with a batter coating.

• We also bought mangosteen there (bag) and jackfruit. In the bottom picture the mangosteen is torn open. Watch for the juices from the shell/skin, permanent red ‘stainage’ on clothing =D

 
Indian stall

• At this stall, run by Indians in Ayer Tawar, they got all kinds of vegetarian fried snacks.

• The Fizzy drinks still are in them very classic bottles…

 
Home, Ayer Tawar

• At home in Ayer Tawar we had some fried fish, slightly simmered sliced wild boar, in the bag some bought chopped crispy pork and fried taro on the plate on the right. ^^

• Fried taro, thick and thinly sliced. The texture is so grand over here, I guess it’s more ‘fresh’.

• Some homely duck curry, not a good picture, eh? You can also see a bit of my bottled Cactus brand water.

• Homely chicken in red rice wine soup (hmm…) and noodles.

• Homely “kampuang meeng”, so dark soy sauce egg noodles, usually eaten with cha siew, the sweetened and red coloured porc meat.

• Homely laksa with extra laksa leaves, it’s prepared with fish as usual~

• At home we made a nice soup and simmered the fish balls till extra large =D They are minced fish meat/fillet with binding e.g. flour etc. shaped into a ball and sometimes pre fried or had other preparations or ingredients.

• Tiny bananas in a box at home.

 
Out and about

• General small store with all kinds of fresh things, weird schtuff and various brands of snacks and other things. This one seemingly run by a kind old lady.

• Laksa noodles we had in a small dining place in Ayar Tawar. You can see mint, herbs, sliced cucumber, pineapple.

• This one has clams. They are red cause they are somewhat preserved/spiced/sweetened so to speak~ =D

• The small diner also provided the classic tiny wan tan dumplings. Have seen smaller, though.

• Stalls at the local market in Ayer Tawar. You can see a lot of things are plastic wrapped or in a plastic bag. From soy bean drinks to all kinds of snacks

• Here we bought the fish balls, dumplings and other floats =D (Made from beancurd/tofu skin, flours, fish, meat etc. ingredients…)

• Nasi Lemak, wrapped with banana leaf, the bottom picture they have put a large fish in it (o_O<)
  Wiki: With roots in Malay culture, its name is a Malay word that literally means ‘rice in fat’. The name is derived from the cooking process whereby rice is soaked in rich coconut cream and then the mixture steamed. Sometimes knotted screwpine (pandan) leaves are thrown into the rice while steaming to give it more fragrance. Herbs such as ginger (common in Malay cuisine) and occasionally lemon grass may be added for additional fragrance.

  Traditionally, this comes as a platter with cucumber slices, small dried anchovies (ikan bilis), roasted peanuts, stir fried water convolvulus (kangkong), hard boiled egg, pickled vegetables (achar) and hot spicy sauce (sambal). Nasi lemak can also come with any other accompaniments such as chicken, cuttlefish, cockle, beef curry (beef stewed in coconut milk and spices) or paru (beeflungs). Traditionally most of these accompaniments are spicy in nature.

  So uhmmm yeah, this is a poorer version D=
  A proper image of the dish can be found here at a dutch malaysia site.

• A steamed bun or pao with on the one on the left (top one) with bean paste filling and the one on the right (bottom) peanut filling =D

• Roti canai~ Check more on wiki on roti canai With egg, onion and a bowl of spicy curry.

• In or near Ayer Tawar they were roasting/BBQ-ing sate, 20 cents a piece. They sold about 1500 that day. Not a lot of money for a lot of work and employees, neh (>o_o)
  Ate them with nasi lemak and you can also see some sweet rice, cassava and made from other flour schtuff snacks (upper left small plate and usually steamed or baked, sometimes even fried afterwards at one side or more)

 
Pastries and snacks

• Steamed pastries, snacks~! Ranging from rice, cassava and etc. of flour with beanpaste, coconut or other sweet things, layers or fillings. One type is even fried or fried afterwards at one side. Also some are made with sticky rice.

• I really love the fried snacks or pastries. Made from all kinds of flour and with meaty or sweet fillings. Especially love the taro steamed pastry which is (re-)fried from a side.

• Nostalgic kind of cookies and pastries we bought. Really unique/grand flavours.

• Them snacks and pastries in bags. We use a lot of plastic bags here D= And people also throw it everywhere o_o The steamed orange pastry you see there is grand with a beanpaste filling. You know, it’s dough is white and becomes orange after steaming. Only water and a flour(, forgot which type =S ).

 
Taiping, Malaysia

• Ais Kacang dessert~ Read more at wiki~ Bad picture, I know and there are so many other more photogenic available, neh? Love them large red beans. The ice needs to be shaved properly and at a right temperature, I guess, to achieve and maintain a certain texture.

• Just some curry soup =D Always love the extra spices and egg.

• “Kampuang meeng” but then with flat broad noodles and not just “meeng”? =D And cha siew is easily spotted~

• Taiping kampuang meeng and the obligatory tiny wan tan dumplings soup.

• F&N Sarsi (~@_@)~

• Taiping seafood omelette. Gave me belly ache D=

• Really out of focus and bad pictures D= So here there are all kinds of fried, steamed and etc snacks and pastries again. The bottom image is one of them special kinds. It’s like a pancake but the center is sprinkled with sugar and crushed peanuts and then it’s fold one time (half a circle) =D
  Hmmm, thinking of pastries and such, there are also a kind of pastry that are ping-pong ball sized and “baked waffle-machine style” (any help how it is called?) but filled with kaya~ (Coconut egg jam). Also grand.

 
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