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Friday, April 7, 2023

Unusual Menu Items

 


Ended up in a small town near to the Taman Negara national park. During Ramadan, the best bet is to steer to Chinese restaurants before 6pm to have dinner. Many other places might be closed or are extremely busy with those waiting to break their fast during their festive month (We found McDonalds closed during lunch. We assume a lack of customers during this time). 

Apparently, the Fish Lips Soup is a thing. One would cut off the lips, dry them, then make soup with it, adding other ingredients. We were later told that this restaurant was once famous for Monkey Head Soup. Well, they could keep that, no interest. Same goes for Sharkfin Soup. Personally, never understood the hype about it as it is a dish that you HAVE to add vinegar to in order to give it some taste. 

Among the other, rather delicious, dishes we had was the coconut flower soup. Something never seen before, but stunningly nice:



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