seriously i commute these days and i saw this soft spiffy digital billboard thing they had oh the trains in a dinner attempt to monetize and they had this gwailo doing all of these Malaysian things like visit art installations and take public transport and eat local food and he was eating durian and it's so evident he was suffering and i wondered:
1. why do gwailos have a hard time with durian
2. why la, you have hard time with durian yet you still eat??? it's like you and spicy food liddat.
seriously this one time i was studying in the UK and normally for Malay boys they give us something that tastes of home so we don't die inside from eating English food and so they gave us serunding, which is spicy beef floss. one English guy discovered it and he ate it and he was tearing up and turning red and i was like 1) is it that bad and 2) why are you suffering and yet still enjoying yourself
@tariqk Dear diary, today I learned serunding in Malaysia is very different from serundeng in Indonesia.
@HD oh yeah! and it differs from state to state as well here. the “spicy coconut flakes” recipe looks like the recipe my grandmother-in-law used to do when she was alive. but she's Johorean, and Javanese to boot (so're my paternal grandparents, but I think mine assimilated differently).