Word: satay
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...that, as Idulfitri engages in Godot-like banter with a fellow revolutionary turned rake while they scrounge for a meal. Eventually they sell a monitor-lizard-skin wallet to a hawker on South Gambir Street (now Jalan Medan Merdeka Selatan, home to banks and the U.S. embassy) for satay money. Before that, they doze in a corner of the square popular with "shadows of the night" like Aminah, a prostitute from the lurid tale "News from Kebajoran." She dies in a fit of delirium on a cold concrete bench nearby. How ironic, then, that a statue of Raden Kartini...
...post-funeral reception, attended by Jackson family members as well as producer music mogul Quincy Jones and the Rev. Al Sharpton, was held at nearby restaurant Villa Sorriso. It ran a tab of $21,455. The passed tray food, including tidbits like bruschetta, fruit skewers, beef satay and ratatouille, was one of the party's cheapest features at $4,200. (See pictures of Neverland Ranch...
When one thinks of Malaysia, good scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam are probably the last things that come to mind. But about 31/2 hours north of Kuala Lumpur, the niceties of an English high tea are just as much of a staple as a piping-hot satay. The Cameron Highlands, or the Camerons as locals refer to them, are dotted with tea plantations, strawberry fields, vegetable farms, villages and - as implausible as it sounds - English-style mock-Tudor hotels standing incongruously amid the jungle. Read "One Night in Kuala Lumpur...
...forget to check out the forerunner of Singapore's gastrobar scene. Since its opening in 2001, the New Asia Bar on the 71st and 72nd floors of the Swissôtel, www.singapore-stamford.swissotel.com, has been famed for its superior quick bites as much as its fabulous view. Try the satay-chicken pizza - a scrumptious Singaporean invention, made on a 12-inch base and served with julienned cucumber. There's also a great duck wrap, which stylishly updates the Chinese restaurant staple. Come for sundowners and graze at will. Any dinner reservations you might have for later that evening should prove superfluous...
...trends forecaster for the food industry, and what I find interesting is that fast food is not new at all. It simply acquired a name in recent history. But people have been able to buy gyros outside the Sorbonne in Paris for many years, and satay sticks have been served from mopeds and in markets in Thailand forever...