2012年3月19日月曜日

The city and the cities

The breakfast: coffee, orange juice, many kinds of strange fruits, a kind of Laksa (curry flavour noodle, maybe Malay or Nyonya?), and dim sum.

Walking around the city. It's hot, but not so much. The air is not good in the centre of the city. Sometimes reading (Japanese translation of "The city & the city" by China Miéville) at a cafe or stalls. Iced caffè latte, Nasi Lemak, etc.

The local foods are much mixtured by many cultures: Malay, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Nyonya, etc. The city is also a "Crosshatch", i.e., a patchwork or a mozaic of many foreign cities, which are super modern, quite antique, high-tech, tropical, Western, or Eastern.