A Few Of My Favourite Things: Thai Koay Teow Soup

This bowl of goodness can be found at the Langkawi Parade Shopping Mall, from a nondescript stall at the Level 3 open food court.

The soup is a deep yet simple spiced beef stock tinged with dark soy sauce. Upon order, the cook deftly collects the components - thai rice noodles, water convolvulus and beansprouts and a few slices of fishcake, and dips them in hot water to blanch before ladling on the beefy goodness that is the soup.

Yummmmmmmmmmmmy is all I can say.

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Langkawi Chronicles: Shifting Goalposts.

Another round of inspection.

Another round of shifting goalposts.

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Langkawi Chronicles: DITLO: SNAKE!

Got a call today from one of the guests at the resort. 

Guest: Encik, datang segera ke Chalet Kenanga 1, ada ular. Cepat Encik!

Razee: Baiklah, saya datang sekarang and dashes out the door.

Guest: Terima Kasih Encik, tu dia haaa (and points to it while I take a look).

Razee: Okay, Tuan dan ahli keluarga semua masuk ke dalam Chalet semula dan tutup semua pintu masuk sementara saya usahakan ular ni.

Proceeds to usher the snake away with a long safety pole, while guests continue looking and agape (blithely ignoring my instruction to stay indoors). 

Carefully guided the snake to a drain chute a distance away. Little that the guests knew that the snake was a venomous one, a Monocled Cobra that can grow to be close to 2 meters long and occurs throughout the Peninsula Malaysia, Thailand, India, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam and sporadically in China. 

The 'O' pattern on the neck is the Monocle.

The trick is to guide the critter away to a direction we want it to, without actually touching it, bashing it, or worse, picking it up. Harassing it will only cause the snake to Hood and force it to stand its ground, prolonging the process. So, let it go on its way by corralling it in the direction we do want it to go. I absolutely detest killing a creature and so this method is the best as it removes the need for physical contact (besides, being bitten can really ruin one's day!).

As a precaution against it returning, we liberally sprinkle Sulphur along the perimeter of the chalets and structures. 

Crisis averted in 5 minutes.