Making roti at the Biriyani cafe

The bloke who runs it loves tourists and has photos of him with loads of them for all over the world that he brings out to show you. I dont know if he realises that he is in the Lonely Planet, or just thinks they all stumble in. Well, he makes great roti, which is basically very thick batter that they fry into flat crispy rounds and you eat dipped in curry sauce. The Malaysians eat it all the time for breakfast apparantly.

Kuching, Cats and Colonialism

January 23rd 2007
Kuching Kris: We flew from Kota Kinabalu in Sabah on one side of Borneo (Sabah) to Kuching on the other (Sarawak) for a brief outing to sample a bit of Sarawak life. Although it's still Malaysia, Sarawak's effectively another country, on the other side of Brunei. Sarawak has a strange colonial history too. Basically a rich English bloke called James Brooke went adventuring on ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more

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