I cooked a Kuala Lumpur/Bangkok hawker-stand dinner tonight!

[DemoTex]

I grilled chicken, in the KL style, with tamarind/lime/cilantro .. plus Vietnamese fish sauce (nouc mam), garlic, ginger, basil, etc.! I made a bodacious Thai green papaya salad: shredded papaya and carrots, ripe tomatoes, green beans slivers, dried shrimp, and a sauce of tamarind pulp, lime juice, cilantro, fish sauce, palm sugar syrup, pulverized garlic, and MoFo dried Thai chili peppers.

All I lack is some durian custard for desert. Ah .. durian!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Durian is the fruit that smells like poo or old vomit or something like that.

The meal sounds wonderful, though. What are MoFo dried chili peppers?

I had some durian ice cream at a Thai restaurant once. It was... different.

[DemoTex]

2. Vomit.

You can smell a durian stand a block away. BUT .. it tastes good. I first had it in jungle survival school in the Philippines on my way to Viet Nam. They told us: NEVER EAT DURIAN RAW! I later had durian ice cream in Singapore .. quite nice.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. That meal sounds wonderful

I love Southeast Asian food.

[DemoTex]

4. I went out to the Saigon Market by Bob Jones U. and got what the Publix did not have.

Green Papaya
Tamarind
Palm Sugar
Sweet Thai Soy Sauce

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Maybe for our next lunch we should hit one of those Vietnamese restaurants.

A bowl of pho would be good.

[DemoTex]

7. I found a Pho restaurant today .. next to the Saigon Market.

Open Sunday 11-8. Guess I know where I'll have lunch tomorrow!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Or Peninsula, which serves Malaysian-Singapore cuisine

:7

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Mmmm... Let's remember that one for next time.

[bixente]

6. Indonesian food

I tried it recently. In Melbourne there's a nice place called Es Teler 77. From there I tried Mee Goreng (not sure on the spelling). Also there's different forms of this food. The only thing I know for sure was that I enjoyed it immensely.