On those long and dusty trips down south
we like to stop for toilet breaks and drinks with cut fruits in season
imagine when we stopped at the R and R to find this rude sign "NO HAWKING"
the favourite stalls with all manners of cold drinks, fruits in season, titbits and keropok is gone!
What's with the authorities? enforcing senseless stuff while depriving the small hawker from eking a decent living, and it's not as if they are making a lot of money or fouling up the place...no wonder people resort to snatching handbags and smashing car windows, if they have no respite for hard work and honest day's pay.
in its place is this machine dispensing hot and cold drinks....cold, impersonal and doesn't talk to you, unlike the friendly stall owners who were so keen to serve us and always thinking of ways to provide novelty goods
lots of people use this open air toilet, next we saw a whole busload of Korean tourists who could do with some cold canned drinks......
Before we reached Woodlands
we lunched at this quaint coffee shop in Johore Bahru
with marble table tops and kopi tiam chairs of yesteryear still in use!!!
baskets of my favourite otak otak!!
see? such a authentic kopi tiam, the likes of it you cannot find in KL anymore, those in Petaling Street Chinatown are being torn down relentlessly for the MRT project, or is it a ploy to wipe out vestiges of Chinatown identity?
Notice that the wooden support and legs of the marble table is detachable and can be fixed back
his order is foo chok and kuay teow soup
clear, and simple for a light lunch
mine is clay pot yee mee
steaming hot with fish balls and bok choi
the toilet is a converted bucket system!!
I know this used to be a bucket system toilet because it is very high (to accomodate the bucket underneath) and I used to have one when I was staying in Jalan Jenang Dalam in Batu Pahat during my younger days...
and this kitchen with the chimney hood also reminds me of my shop house days, my shop house kitchen actually had this hood before we covered it up (it is now in the room where my father used to stay)
In singapore, my sister had already cooked a lot of accompaniments for porridge and I tried some of them again!!!! Soft white tauhu, steamed minced meat, preserved olive leaves, canned chai sim stems, and french beans with white porridge!!!!
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