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My favourite Malaysian/Chinese Dishes

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I was lucky enough back in the early noughties to spend 13 months in Asia and of that eight months in Malaysia where I had a contract with a company producing SMSC gateways. During my KL stint I lived in a couple of places near the centre:    The last place was in a tower block near the district of Brickfields, which is an Indian quarter.   The office which was at KL Sentral was walking distance to Chinatown. Very often at lunchtime I'd shoot off on a solo mission and head for my favourite restaurants there. Over the years since my time in Malaysia I've yearned for the dishes that I encountered during those days. Luckily for me there are many expat Malaysian Chinese communities around the world one of the biggest being here in London. I wanted to make a note here in my blog as to a couple of my favourite ones, which are: Wat Tan Hor. Back in the day in Malaysia there were not that many obese Chinese, most were quite thin but there was this one guy who had an ope...

Austria Vignette Delayed Purchase Results

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We went to Austria last October.  We hired a car in Frankfurt, I got to catch up with an old friend there, then we drove to Munich - had some amazing roast pork at the Paulaner restaurant/museum ... Anyway the reason for this post:  You need a 'vignette' to drive on their motorways, and you should stop as soon as possible at a gas station when entering the country and buy one.  However due to a hangover, tiredness and lack of gumption I neglected to do so immediately.  It was some considerable time later that I figured I need to get one - pronto.   However this was after we'd just left a services, so as I was not driving, I started googling. I found these https://i-vignette.com/  and just went ahead and bought the damn thing.  Even paid a few Euro more for the "Express service".   It was emailed to me in a matter of minutes. Probably due to the hangover I still felt it likely that some damn camera had clocked me and some automatic printe...