I may be bombarded with bashing comments if Thailand isn’t my choice. But Malaysia is still a reigning king of street food against all odds. It’s ‘Truly Asia’ where street food is not to be missed. Especially, when going to towns like Malacca and George Town. I leave KL and Ipoh out for now.
Thumbs up for Malaysia’s street food anyway. GeorgeTown, Penang has its brands of ‘ Char Kuay Teow, Laksa, Wanton mee, among my favorites, and countless of them, including ‘Cendol’ is yummy as well.
Malacca has got everything to boast about from ‘Tua Pao & Dim Sum, Roti Canai and Yong Tau Fu for breakfast and unique Chicken rice balls for lunch, and Singaporean tourist’s favorite Satay Celup and Yu Tio for supper.
Singapore’s hawker food is ranked the best in terms of convenience to find the type of street food ‘under one roof’ in Hawker centers.
Close your eyes and walk, and you find one with the awesome dishes you dream of with a high price tag on each dish- it’s considered a ‘Never Mind One’ if you live to eat.
From Breakfast, lunch, and dinner in one place- People’s Park Complex is the best any tourists can get in one go. But the Whampoa/Kim Kiat area was my first experience of Singapore’schoices of street foods.
Ghim Moh Hawker Center is my latest visit - I love it! The king of Char Kuay Teow (he wears a crown)and a talkative man who sells Charcoal-grilled Char Siew (Moo Daeng) Rice- it’s a ‘must’ to talk to him each time I stop by—he is bored to tears as no one talks to him. He speaks English like a PhD in sociology.
Last but not least, Thailand’s street food has a killer taste, sweet, salty, and spicy all-in-one, suitable for Thais and crazy foreigners alike who only think that ‘Zapp/Shoik is for food, besides, traditional taste is a real bore. A must- add chili, sugar & vinegar/lime.
Yummy dishes, like ‘Kuay Teow Lord’,(not what you think, as Lords don’t eat this) Fried Carrot Cake (this one has the killer taste), Kuay Teow Khae (Yen Ta Fo), Beef Stew Kuay Teow, a renowned Fish Maw Soup, and ‘Pad See Ewe’ are the best street food to look for.
Please don’t waste time looking for Mee Siam/Siem.
Good dishes for Street food can be found in Chinatown (which has the best food), the old city area, Rama 4 road, Rachawat, Soi Convent (Saladang Station), and Bang Rak area.
So, did I give you a fair share of the best street food of the 3 countries I love? Umm… and hate (at times) in which I can’t live without.
Oh, this bullshit again. I took a quick look at the existing answers. Not surprisingly, we have a bunch of answers like this:
“Slaves are valuable property. Of course, they’re treated very well! They’re fed, clothed, and have holidays!!! They loved their white masters who took such good care of them, and they never wanted to be free.”
Someone just watched Gone with the Wind.
Look at them, just two lovely gal pals. How cute!
First of all, let’s set the record straight. The question is 100% valid. The enslaved people during the American Chattel Slavery era were treated with unfathomable cruelty. And their treatment was not isolated incidents. It is prevalent.
After watching 12 Years a Slave, I asked a black friend, “was it really that bad?” granted, I wasn’t nearly as informed about slavery as I’m today. And it was a pretty shitty question. But my friend, being the nice guy that he is, said, “Oh, it’s a lot worse. 100 times worse.”* And I believed him. I started to read about American chattel slavery, told by black people. And now I know he’s right. It was 100 times worse than what you see in the movies.
* A lot of people seemed to have issues with this statement. And there’s no end of shitty self-congratulatory comments about “oh, your friend is 150 years old” or some such. Trust me, you ain’t nearly as smart as you think you are.
I assume you understand the concept of reading about history from books and learning about history from family members. Just because you never picked up a book and now actively trying to ban books in our schools doesn’t mean other people don’t read and educate themselves. And as far as Black history is concerned. I will always assume a black person knows more about their own history than I do. I listen to black educators and black people when it comes to slavery and systemic racism. We should ALL listen to black people when it comes to Black history.
We have slavers’ own diaries and journals as records. Just google Bennet Barrow and Thomas Thistlewood.
From Barrow’s journal:
1838
Jan. 23
my House Servants Jane Lavenia & E. Jim broke into my store room - and helped themselves very liberally to every thing - I whipped [them] ... worse than I ever whipped any one before
Sept. 28 Dennis and Tom "Beauf" ran off on Wednesday - . . . if I can see either of them and have a gun at the time will let them have the contents of it ...
Oct. 12 [Tom ran off again] will whip him more than I ever whip one, I think he deserves more - the second time he has done so this year ...
Oct. 20 whipped about half today
Oct. 26 Whipped 8 or 10 for weight today -those that pick least weights generally most trash ...
Oct. 27 Dennis ran off yesterday - & after I had whipped him
Nov. 2 Dennis came in sick on Tuesday - ran off again yesterday - without my ever seeing him -will carry my gun & small shot for him - I think I shall cure him of his rascality
Nov. 7 Dennis came in last night - had him fasted - attempted to escape. ran as far as the creek but was caught - the D[ammedest] rascal on the place
Dec. 30 Demps gave his wife Hetty a light cut or two & then locked her up to prevent her going to the Frolic-I reversed it turning her loose & fastening him
Mind you, Barrow considered himself a benevolent slave owner who had treated his slaves a lot better than his contemporaries.
Thistlewood was a lot worse, I don’t even want to quote it here. If you want to read it, google it yourself.
The simple fact is, despite the enslaved people being considered “property,” they were treated with cruelty and abuse. On top of the endless beating and raping, they were not provided adequate food and clothing. Slavers gave some grain and fat trimmings to the enslaved people. And the enslaved people must grow their own food or forage the woods on their own time to supplement their food supply. Meaning after the enslaved people worked from sunrise to sundown in their human trafficker’s plantation, they needed to work on their own gardens and small plots of land to grow their own food. They were not provided with clothing. Enslaved people were given one set of new clothing at the beginning of the year. That’s all they have for everything. They might have a thin blanket for the cold. Enslaved children were not given shoes.
And there’s the psychological abuse. Families were often forced to live separately, to isolate people so they couldn’t run away together. Children were separated from their mothers. Siblings were torn apart and sold separately.
So do us a favor and shut the fuck up about how enslaved people were treated well. I don’t know what fantasy story United Daughters of the Confederacy had sold you. But hey, I don’t blame you. You don’t know better, considering white people are so fragile that watching a movie about a brave black girl going to school is just, OMG, too much for the precious, precious white children.
And, of course, there’s the question “why.” Even if the slavers saw enslaved people as property no better than their cows or horses, one must notice the same people wouldn't have beaten their cows or horses bloody to the point they couldn’t perform their functions. The fact is, the slavers often went out of their way to be cruel to enslaved people.
So you can't really explain this kind of behavior with isolated sadism. I don't think slave masters or overseers beating slaves until their backs were bloody all got off on it.
I thought about this a lot, and this is the conclusion I eventually reached:
I think slavers treated enslaved people with such cruelty not because they didn't see enslaved people as people but as properties. I think that, on the contrary, the slavers knew inside their hearts that the black people they enslaved were people. Perhaps in their mind, these people weren't as “superior” as they were, but they were people nonetheless. It's hard not to see them as people. Human brains function in such a way that we recognize and often assign humanity. We see our pets as “family members". We “assign" personalities even to inanimate items like cars or ships. It is in our human nature to seek out humanity in other beings.
Chattel slavery really required slavers to see enslaved people as non-people. Not even animals, the enslaved people must be seen as “objects." And it was hard. It was against what we’re naturally hardwired to do.
In order to deal with this kind of cognitive dissonance, slavers ended up becoming savagely cruel with their charges. Slavers must put enslaved people through that much pain and humiliation, completely taking away their humanity, in order to maintain a society built on chattel slavery. This desire was so strong that it outweighed the “logical” consideration of supposed “property value.” In other words, the slave owners didn’t care if their cruelty against enslaved people would cost them financially. They NEEDED to dehumanize enslaved people in order to live their lives as slavers.
So you have this weird, inhumane paradox that slavers treated the enslaved people horribly, not because they saw them as property, but because they knew black people were humans. Then, they had two choices: becoming an abolitionist, as many white people did throughout history, or torturing the enslaved people and taking their humanity away.
Fast forward to modern-day America. We learned about how horribly the enslaved people were treated. You have two choices: learn about history as much as possible, and make sure we never go back to that. Or you could accept the Lost Cause rhetoric and believe, “but it’s not that bad….”
It seems that this answer has attracted some conservative racist shitheads, and I’ve been getting shitty comments non-stop. After replying and blocking these people, I realized they never read past the 3rd paragraph, and I was wasting my time on these racists. So comment closed.
I would say this, though: all this time, the vast majority (if not all) of the racist and hateful comments I got are from white male boomers, judging from their name, profile picture, and graduation year (most of them graduated college in the 70s). Sure, people fake their identity online, but these people look like they are very proud of their “white heritage,” and they’re more likely to boast it than hide it.
I understand the guilt. I do. You identify with your slaver ancestors, and you feel that you’re being attacked when people discuss the cruelty of slavery, and you want to mitigate that guilt by minimizing the damage of slavery.
But here’s the thing. There were white abolitionists, and there were slavers. The fact that none of you identify with the abolitionists and ALL of you shitty racists identify with the slavers says a lot about your morals. That tells me if American chattel slavery is reinstated today, you will happily go buy black and brown people as your property. You will form militias to terrorize racial minorities (if you haven’t already done so even now). You will kidnap and sell non-white people for profit.
In your heart of hearts, you WANT to be a slaver. You want that kind of power over a human being. And you want to be seen as the good guy. That’s why you’re so angry when you read this answer.
Cary Grant (originally Archibald Alec Leach) grew up poor in the United Kingdom, and left home to join an acrobatic troupe while a teenager. After a tour across the United States, Grant elected to remain in the U.S., working as a carny barker, stilt walker and escort between vaudeville engagements and short stints on Broadway.
He was the owner of a half-assed entertainment career that kept him relatively poor into the last half of his 20s. But the tide turned in 1931 when Mr. Grant secured a long-term Hollywood contract and started making hit pictures and serious money. By then, he’d become adept at hanging onto every nickel that he earned, and kept up the practice the rest of his life.
Some of the practices he was credited with/accused of over the course of his life?
Charging fans for autographs.
Marking liquor bottles to make sure household staff wasn’t stealing the boozr. Cutting buttons off old shirts and saving them. Charging house guests for laundry.
Grant and Randolph Scott lived together for years, leading Carole Lombard to observe: “It’s the perfect relationship. Randy pays the bills and Cary mails them.”
When old friend Rosalind Russell mentioned she was flying to London for a week, Grant said: “Why don’t you use my Rolls Royce while you’re in London? The agent representing the car over there can give you the rental fee.” Ms. Russell declined the offer.
The story goes that Grant would eat at McDonald’s and get told by customers that he looked like … Cary Grant. He’d reply, “Do you actually think Cary Grant would eat at McDonald’s?
On the other side of the coin: Grant donated his fee from The Philadelphia Story (1940) to the British war effort and $100k salary for Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) to the U.S. War Relief Fund. His daughter Jennifer Grant never considered him cheap, but then why would she? He showered her with attention and gifts.
However, there was little question Cary was careful with a dollar. At the time of his death, his estate was worth $60 million.
Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. Mark 6:7–8
Why would Jesus instruct the Twelve to go forth to preach with authority but to take nothing with them on the journey? Most people who set out on a journey prepare ahead and make sure to pack what they need. Jesus’ instruction was not so much a lesson in relying upon others for basic needs as it was a lesson on reliance upon divine providence for their ministry.
The material world is good in and of itself. All creation is good. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with having possessions and using them for our good and for the good of those who have been entrusted to our care. But there are times when God wants us to rely more upon Him than upon ourselves. The story above is one of those situations.
By instructing the Twelve to go forth on their mission without bringing the basic necessities of life, Jesus was helping them to trust not only in His providence for those basic needs but also to trust that He would provide for them spiritually in their mission of preaching, teaching and healing. They were given great spiritual authority and responsibility and, for that reason, needed to rely upon the providence of God to a far greater extent than others. Thus, Jesus exhorts them to trust Him regarding their basic needs so that they will also be disposed to trust Him on this new spiritual mission.
The same is true in our lives. When God entrusts us with a mission to share the Gospel with another, He will often do so in a way that requires great trust on our part. He will send us forth “empty-handed,” so to speak, so that we will learn to rely upon His gentle guidance. Sharing the Gospel with another is an incredible privilege, and we must realize that we will be successful only if we rely wholeheartedly upon the providence of God.
Reflect, today, upon those to whom you sense God wants you to reach out to with the Gospel. How do you do this? The answer is quite simple. You do so only by relying upon the providence of God. Step out in faith, listen to His guiding voice every step of the way, and know that His providence is the only way that the Gospel message will be effectively shared.
My trustworthy Lord, I accept Your call to go forth and to share Your love and mercy with others. Help me to always rely upon You and Your providence for my mission in life. Use me as You will and help me to trust in Your guiding hand for the upbuilding of Your glorious Kingdom on earth. Jesus, I trust in You.
