Food

[Work Week August 3rd]
I had to take a snapshot of the buffet here at work. It shows you the cafeteria version of Penang food. There is some curries, rice, and fish. If you get a change open up the picture and zoom in on the fish to the right of me in the picture. You'll see its fish, the whole fish, and nothing but fish. How you eat it is you just slide the meat off the fish. When you're done you just have the head and the bones. Even then you can dig out the meat from the head and the eyes (Not something I have tried yet). One famous dish here is Penang fish head soup. Its curry with a bunch of larger fish heads.

Here some pictures of work. Its called 'Seaside', if you turned around, across the street is the sea separating Peninsular Malaysia and Penang Island. Its a pretty nice view. You can also see the various flags flying. The one in the middle might look like the US flag at first but its not, its actually the Malaysian Flag. Its modeled after the Stars and Stripes. It also has 13 stripes for its 13 states.

Tom and his family took me out to eat. We went to a Hawker Center called 'Super tanker', or as the local call it "Su-pa Tank-a". From the inside it is a long canopy with tapered edges, just like you'd expect the inside of a large oil taker to look like. I had some Pork Satay, mmm, Satay....

Oh, I almost forgot. We went to the grocery store to pick up some candy before we went to the theater. I saw this Cadbury chocolate and just had to take a picture for you guys... Thats right, its Blue Berry Chocolate, now who thought *that* was a good idea? ;)

We decided to go see the Simpson's. Going to a move here is a bit different than in the US. First off they have assigned seating, so if you plan to go on a busy day you should book early. 2 days early in fact. Tickets go on sale 2 days early. Fortunately for us though there was plenty of room. When you're buying your tickets you can choose which seats. They have a nifty program you use to select. Odd thing was that they have a different idea of what the best seats in the house are. Everyone prefers the furthest back seats! We got to sit square in the middle of the theater, prime seats in my book. The cost of a new movie here? 10MYR, thats a mere $3USD. Quite cheap! The seats are great, its stadium seating, and instead of a sticky concrete floor, they have carpet! Now its not a big Ultrascreen but its still big and great quality. I'm impressed.
I had to buy some concessions. A Coke and Carmel corn was $6.20MYR, thats less that $2USD! Who can pass that up? It gets better, on Wednesday nights the ticket price is only 6MYR ($1.75USD)! Thats cheaper than the cheap second run movies in Appleton!

Well I thought the movie was quite good and worth the $5USD I spent! Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, Does whatever a Spider-Pig does...!

-Terry