11/27/2009

Boatyard Batu Maung, Penang, Malaysia

Hi Everyone,

  I’m sure you’ll all be eating some variation of turkey and stuffing.  Last night we ate with E and P on Labarque.  E made a wonderful dish of chicken, red lentils, cilantro, mint leaves, yogurt and other wonderful spices.  We ate it all.  I made a partly frozen dessert of canned chocolate sweetened condensed milk, a box of cream, some cold milk, a glob of Kaya and some ice cubes whirred all together in our blender and froze for 6 hours.  It really needs at least 10 hours, I think, so I’ll try it again.  We sort of drank it!  Then we watched the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency which they had on CD.  Good movie. Good meal.   Today E’s taking me on a tour of George Town while Randal goes to hardware and electrical shops and P works on Labarque. 

This fellow is safe from any dinner plate.

As a matter of fact E and I feed him.  E calls it a cockerel, I call him a rooster.  He is quite pretty and spends part of his day near Labarque on these boat stands.  He sleeps on a roof near the yard showers and toilets.  The other morning I tried to feed him crumbled crackers while the cat looked on. He was definitely more afraid of me, though sometimes he isn’t and just waits for me to finish getting his crackers ready.   The rooster is larger than the cat but the dogs also leave him alone.  He is very pretty and not mean like some roosters I have known.  The one in the chicken house at the group home in New Hampshire where I worked in the early 70s was very mean.  I went in with a big stick when I collected the eggs. 

Ru

DoraMac