Little Penang ...
... Wellington was a pleasant surprise, with its plethora of good ethnic eats. This casual eatery was packed with diners munching on some Malaysian food - this was a tad disappointing in a way, more because I was hoping for a stew, when this bak kut teh turned out to be more like a soup. Pork rib, shiitake mushrooms, tofu, and oddly, canned mushrooms - a very herbal characteristic to the dish, but it was nice. The rice was quite hard, but it wasn't until near the end when I realized that it was meant to be dumped into the soup, which would've softened it up.
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more 
