Food
We have one fussy eater, but found that he would eat rice and noodles which meant we could exist round Asia. Fruit is plentiful, as are fast-food shops which because of the kids, we visited a lot more frequently than we would have travelling as adults. We also drank a lot more soft drinks than we would have at home, and water at meals was always bottled.

But the different foods and meals we had remain among some of our more interesting memories – another Big Mac just doesn’t compare with the list below

  • the icecream shop we discovered in Vietnam, with anything from macadamia to mango icecream
  • afternoon tea in a garden in Malaysia – fresh strawberries and cream with pancakes
  • delicious soup in Burma at tiny tables (a foot off the ground) in a coffee shop
  • fast food Asian style at a hawker’s market in Singapore
  • endless versions of dhal bhat (curry and rice meals) in Nepal
  • the special kway teow (noodle soup) in Ipoh, Malaysia, which people supposedly drive up all the way from Singapore to sample
  • the cobra satays in Indonesia and gadogado – a vegetable salad with peanut sauce
  • the khantoke dinner in Thailand – sitting on the floor leaning on triangular cushions and being served little bowls of all sorts of different delicacies while having live music and dance entertainment

 

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Invited into the kitchen of an
Indian restaurant - taking roti
out of a tandoor oven