I woke up today, and really paid for the gluttony of last night.
Yesterday, like every other weekday, I woke up 6am, professor kind of pressured me to have some flat noodles which ended being just phenomenal.I knew I was going to this Buffet that night; I was told the buffet was a Rammadan buffet to celebrate the break-fast. Anyways, I wasted some time for like 5 hours, then worked on some boring fungal stuff for like 6 hours, before it was time to FEAST. I was going with the grad student I work with, and her friends in the fermentation research group at Swinburne Univ. of Tech,an international university in Kuching. The girl driving had all these funny furry stuffed pets; there's even fur on the doors of the car. This was quite possibly the most Asian-looking car ever seen, and it was pretty endearing. this girl was racing through the streets scaring the shit out of us, but whatever. Let's get to the meal. I had not eaten lunch and really felt the hunger crippling me right now. So this meal was nuts...everything good from the East and stuff I had never heard of but loved: a WHOLE LAMB roasted with great spices...cumin, coriander...and was that motor oil I detected; a gyro STATION, so they made you a gyro sandwich with the sauces and all; malay-style ceviche; lamb biryani, extra spicy, extra tasty; a station that made ice kacang (pronounced ka-chang, basically a snow cone with various syrups; many meats prepared in strange ways, like this chicken meat that was pounded down and flattened by a person dancing on it; pickled mango, not so good; bamboo shootclams, basically these cylindrical shells about 6 inches long, and inside there are fantastic clams; eggplant with ginger and a special sauce they call sambal; curried durian, bad smell, good taste which i surprises you because you think it'll taste horrendous based on smell; fresh dragonfruit; freshly made tapioca pudding (yes they grow tapioca nearby); papaya that was coated in sour and salty powder (dislike), but this is eaten to make you more hungry apparently.There was much much more than what I'm mentioning, but I couldn't remember it all. I felt like I Dined in Heaven last night. I had a sort of overdose of new, delicious, strange flavors...I'll just say I went into 'Flavor-Shock' and leave it at that (pictures on the way soon, I stupidly forgot the camera and a friend took all the photos. Afterwards, I was rolled back to the car and dropped off at home, a delusionally overfed blob of humanity left to an undisturbed slumber.
Life feels sometimes like a dream. We meander through it, totally oblivious to it's many wonders, which we can unlock if we were to gain that awareness and become cognizant of it's dreamlike nature. This blog chronicles some of my journey to becoming fully lucid, to figuring "it" out, and taking any interesting detours that come my way. It all started with some rainbow flavored ice cream in Europe and a 10 month stint in Borneo. The jungles call to me...
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ReplyDeleteDude, SS had NOTHING on this meal. It was just wicked.
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