There is only so far a group of 9 Americans in Asia can go, with an age range from age 3 to 71, without stopping for food. In fact, most of the time we spent on our tour was eating the Nonya lunch.
You may remember, Nonyas are female descendants of Chinese who married Malays. The food is this spicy, Chinese-influenced set of dishes with spices from Malaysia, like torch ginger. There was a delicious lime-soaked shallot dish whose last bites Brendan and I nearly wrestled over. But, he's too much of a gentleman.
After Dad's health crisis, this was his first foray back into touristing. And, he did great! It was such a relief to me that the tour wasn't too much for him and he could squeeze in some final touristing before going back to NY. He gushed over the Nonya cuisine, inhaling the 10 dishes brought out to us.
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