September 2014 – Turnbull Custom Art

Food

September 27, 2014/in Food, Malaysia /by Angela Turnbull

More Food Pictures!

Coconut
Order coconut (listed under juice) and they bring you the whole thing

3-Layer Tea
Coconut palm sugar syrup on bottom, then condensed milk, then tea on top. Stir it up and drink it (we had to go back and get another)

Thai Nasi Goreng Ayam
Translated: Thai fried rice with chicken

Chendol (or Cendol)
A fantastic dessert! Shaved ice, green pandan-flavored (and colored) rice noodles, red beans (like kidney beans), jellies, coconut milk and palm sugar syrup

ABC Special
The name stands for something meaning "mixed ice" - it's like chendol, but with more stuff in it (corn, more jellies, and ice cream on top)

Fries, but wait…
It's the little things... fries are served with sweet chili sauce instead of ketchup (which is fantastic but surprises me every time)

Legoland Malaysia

September 27, 2014/in Malaysia /by Angela Turnbull

It was on our to-do list, but then they put in a Star Wars display, so we had to go right away! We liked it even more than expected, so we took a bunch of pictures.

Road Trip

September 27, 2014/in Malaysia /by Angela Turnbull

There’s a whole country to explore! And we like road trips anyway.

IMG_20140913_134325 — Overpasses have little parking areas for motorcycles to take a break or get out of the rain.

IMG_20140913_163131 — Giant Lobster Crackers - like shrimp chips

IMG_20140913_171619 — Some product names wouldn't work quite as expected in the USA

Our New Home

September 27, 2014/in Malaysia /by Angela Turnbull

We got our new house on a Wednesday. On Thursday, our air shipment AND our dogs were delivered. Oh, and it RAINED that day. Fortunately our stuff was all extremely well-packed, and though some of the packing was wet, all the stuff was dry and safe! Oh, and the dogs came in a van, so they were dry too.

Downpour? Sure, it’s only all the stuff we care about sitting on the back of a truck.
The first sustained rainstorm since we've been here, and our stuff gets delivered in the middle of it.

All the Important Things
Both dogs immediately found the things they care most about. Yoshi got cuddle time with Josh, and Phantom found his food.

Giant Crates
These crates are huge! It looks like they delivered lions or something.

So Tired
It took the dogs no time to get settled in.

Driving Around

September 27, 2014/in Malaysia /by Angela Turnbull

We took a number of drives to get familiar with the area. There are palm plantations all over. Palm oil is a commercial crop here, so instead of the flat farmland you’d see in the USA, it’s forests of palmtrees.

Kota Iskandar entrance
A state government administration complex - very new, and very cool looking (can't go wrong with cannons as decorations)

Cool Food

September 27, 2014/in Food, Malaysia /by Angela Turnbull

There’s all kinds of cool new foods here!

Nasi Kerabu
The rice is colored and flavored with a blue flower

Mooncake
The Mid-Autumn Festival going on when we got here meant mooncakes were being sold everywhere

Mooncake with Lotus Seed Paste
The mooncakes have all kinds of filling, but we only had this one

Red Dragonfruit
These taste better than the white-flesh ones back home - and cost a whole lot less!

Finally in Malaysia

September 27, 2014/in Malaysia /by Angela Turnbull

When we got to Malaysia, we stayed in a hotel until our house was ready.

A driver came to Singapore to pick us up and take us to Malaysia. Since it was a holiday, they left the keys to the rental car for Josh with the company gate guard. Neither of us has driven a right-hand drive car OR on the left side of the road before (left turn on red!). It was shortly after Josh turned the wipers on instead of the turn signal that he said “Oh my God, we’re gonna die!”

Fortunately, because it was a holiday, there was almost no traffic at all. We drove around for quite a while after checking into the hotel just to get the hang of things.