{"id":2047,"date":"2015-12-14T12:12:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T10:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2015-12-14T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T13:15:58","slug":"cooking-up-a-storm-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yachtadina.co.uk\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"Cooking up a storm in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sailing

Sailing up to Puteri – and hoping that ship turns!<\/p><\/div>Having berthed Adina in Puteri Harbour marina situated in the river that separates Singapore and Malaysia, we welcomed Part II of \u2018Catch up with the parents\u2019 when Tom\u2019s father Keith arrived for a visit. Southern Malaysia and Singapore don\u2019t really lend themselves to sailing unless mixing it up with assorted cargo ships and fuel tankers is your type of cruising so this is an area better suited to land travel. Holding up the tradition of \u2018Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun\u2019 we explored the streets of nearby Johor Bahru and Singapore, seeking out temples and good food. Back on board Adina, Tom\u2019s father turned the big 70 this year and we decided this was the perfect excuse to have a celebration and decorate Adina, break out the good wine, treasured lobster from Papua New Guinea and just for Dad, a cigar.<\/p>\n

\"Lessons

Lessons in how to feed a peanut to an Elephant by Susie<\/p><\/div>Hopping on a plane we flew up to Kuala Lumpur to do some more walking in the midday sun and explore a few more sights and shopping malls. We\u2019ve been away for two years and nine months now and just like back at home things age and even get out of date (and it\u2019s not us we\u2019re talking about). Computers and iPads get old, camera batteries don\u2019t work so well, external disk drives give up the ghost, travel adaptors stop working. Living in a city it\u2019s easy to upgrade or replace as the need arises. Asking a Solomon Islander if he has a Nikon 5100 camera battery in stock in exchange for some rice is not going to get you very far. Kuala Lumpur was the perfect place to get our electronics fix and Adina is now ship-shape once more on that front thanks to Low Yat Electronics Shopping mall!<\/p>\n

Keeping ourselves busy, we visited the Kuala Gandah Elephant sanctuary and enjoyed feeding the elephants some peanuts and more so eating ice cream to try and cool ourselves.<\/p>\n

\"The

The lovely Christina opens Sarang Cookery – great fun!<\/p><\/div>Three years back, just before we left England, we visited Kuala Lumpur and stayed in a B&B owned by a lovely local couple called Christina and Michael. We have fond memories of our local \u2018wet\u2019 market tour with Christina and even fonder memories of taking part in a night time food tour with their whole family during which Christina tried to feed us everything under the sun, or should that be the moon? This included duck tongue, 100 day old eggs, durian and never to be repeated fermented tofu. At the time we said \u2018We\u2019ll be back\u201d and generally we like to honour what we say we will do. Much to our delight Christina and Michael have gone on to be very successful, expanding their little empire including opening up a new restaurant and cooking school, Sarang Cookery <\/a>. All hands up, we\u2019re up for a cooking lesson.<\/p>\n

We remembered Christina as one of those driven, fast paced, knowledgeable, immensely likeable people and nothing had changed. A chef led the class and Christina chipped in supervising, anticipating and making sure things went smoothly. And so we watched and peeled and chopped and made heaps of positively scrumptious food. Great fun and it\u2019s bound to be another success story for them. Christina, apologies for all the questions on what\u2019s a good substitute for a local ingredient and please can you reduce the number of shallots in the recipes \u2013 we\u2019ve never peeled so many shallots! We wish you all the very best and without doubt \u201cWe\u2019ll be back\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Cheers

Cheers – Tom and Keith<\/p><\/div>So before we knew it we were enjoying a final Singapore Sling looking out at the impressively lit Petronas Towers of Kuala Lumpur and bidding farewell to Keith. We genuinely appreciate and enjoy having our parents out to visit. It\u2019s never easy for them as we always seem to find ourselves living in baking heat, and each and every trip we try our best to make life as easy as possible and we take lessons away. Next time less arguing with taxis by Tom. Fingers crossed the next break won\u2019t be so long. A big thank you to our parents – thank you for spoiling us, thank you for your continued support in all its many guises.<\/p>\n

Adina is now making her way up the west coast of Malaysia. It\u2019s not the greatest place for cruising, the waters are murky and there is a lot of shipping. Added to this we are still in the equatorial belt so there is little wind, big thunderstorms and terrifying lightning to keep us on our toes. Our plan is to fast track up to Langkawi with just a few quick stops to break things up. Langkawi is a destination favoured by cruisers as the waters clear up, there are some great anchorages and good old white beaches. Just our type of gin and tonic so it\u2019s here we\u2019ll be basing ourselves for Christmas. Time to make some decorations and have Adina looking full of Christmas cheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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