One of my purposes for our living in Singapore is to learn about Snowdon's upbringing, history and ancestry (and in the meantime my own also).
This morning Harold took me on a leisurely yet very educational trip to the local wet market to do the fruit and veg shopping and have a local breakfast of kopi and kaya (Malay), which Harold has been telling me all about and I was hence itching to try myself.
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| Note my egg is still being left to 'cook' more! |
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| Note Harold's egg is very runny! |
This is a breakfast of coffee, with a toasted sandwich containing butter and coconut jam (yum!) with two eggs. The eggs are cooked by placing them in the shell in boiling water, then you crack them yourself in your saucer when you're ready. It's eaten quite raw, so I left mine in the water for much longer than the locals! I enjoyed it. The whole breakfast costs approx $2 Singaporean (roughly the same as $NZ).
Then we sat and yarned for ages. Harold filled me in on a lot of Snowdon's family history (both his side and Snowda's). Which I'll include in an upcoming blog then update it as I learn more.
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I caught a shot of Harold buying some vegetarian takeaways
for lunch (takeaways are called 'tapow' in Mandarin).
Note his very sporty dress sense differs somewhat from the other locals :) |
I haven't published a blog in a while, even though I've drafted up a few. I've decided, with help from a recommendation by Snowdon, after my marathon Auschwitz blog left me 'blog fatigued'!, to publish short blogs, and to do them more often. Phew what a great idea! Here is the first of many :)
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