My first article for the year in the Vibes.com 😊 Unesco listings: A means of cultural appropriation? https://www.thevibes.com/articles/culture/13632/unesco-listings-a-means-for-cultural-appropriation Continue reading Food Wars and Cultural Listings: How a Small Island State Pulled the Rug from Under Its Larger Neighbours
Gopeng isn’t usually a food stop for travellers plying the highway between Kuala Lumpur and Penang, with most choosing to stop in Ipoh for breakfast or lunch. But Gopeng has its share of unique dishes, ingredients and finds that are not only made with fresh ingredients from around the district but cost a fraction of what you’d pay in larger towns. 1) Gopeng ‘Lai Fun’ The above is ‘Lai Fun’ a dish made up of noodles and paired with tofu, fu chuk, ikan bilis (anchovy) fish cake and other accompaniments and condiments. It is a ‘Hakka’ dish brought in and … Continue reading Food Trail: Gopeng
Sites of interests in Sepang, Selangor: Cyberjaya Lake Garden Continue reading Lakeside Lure @ Sepang
The Mah Meri aborigine group and their fascinating culture and traditions are featured at the Mah Meri Cultural Village in Kuala Langat, Selangor. Continue reading Unmasking the ‘Mah Meri’
The current global lockdown is going to force most of us to grow roots where we are right now. I for one am going to make the best of it by exploring my own backyard. Over the next few days … Continue reading Food Trail: Seaside Sojourn
If I could bottle my favourite scent I’d call it ‘After Rain’. It will capture the fresh scent of wet grass, vegetation, palm frond, fresh earth and the subtle scent of tropical flowers. The scent of nature scrubbed clean, and … Continue reading Cherai Beach: After the Rain
The view of a full moon usually goes unnoticed when you live in a busy city with bright lights, traffic noise and not so good air quality. It’s been three weeks since the Movement Control Order was enforced here in … Continue reading My View of Supermoon
I never understood my mother’s generation’s obsession with collecting dishes. She and her contemporaries would spend hours in the household section of shops and shopping centres looking for a good bargain for pots, pans and dishes. I’m usually not involved … Continue reading Dish Fetish
It’s Palm Sunday today and for the first time in our lives we began Holy Week with mass live streamed from the Church of the Divine Mercy in our diocese and later in the evening, straight from the Vatican. Thanks … Continue reading Blessed (live streamed) Holy Week
One of my favourite photos – oil lamps illuminating this unnamed lane in Cherlai Bazar in Fort Kochi, Kerala, India. The Hindu residents in homes along this lane had lit the lamps on the eve of the Festival of Lights … Continue reading Street of Lights
I’m no homebody, so when the Movement Control Order (MCO) was enforced mid-March and extend into mid-April. I assumed that I would go a little bonkers in no time. Oddly enough it’s been quite the opposite. Leaving the house to … Continue reading Songs of Silence
Explore this serene plantation at the foothills of the Titiwangsa and enjoy the healing properties of Gaharu Gopeng. Continue reading Gopeng’s Valley of Liquid Gold
Maria Dass the World 