On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Bob W wrote: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5025729900/ >> >> There is a new thai restaurant in Scotts Valley (a small town near my > house) >> with a reasonably priced lunch buffet. The food at the buffet is not as > spicy >> as I'd like, but still quite tasty, and reasonably priced. After lunch > the other >> day, I was joking with the waitress "What? No durian?", her eyes lit up > and >> she said "you like durian?, I can get you!" Last night we went back for > dinner, >> when they can make the entrees a bit spicier, and to pick up the durian. >> The table decoration caught my eye, hence this PESO. >> > > we lived in Singapore when I was a child
Pre, or post independence? > and the experience of durian is I have several friends that were exposed to it as children and have vowed to keep as much room as possible between them and durian. > etched into my memory like the San Andreas fault. I'd rather dress as an > altar-boy and hang out in the Vatican cloisters than eat durian again. I > remember my mother having a blazing row in the street with an ice-cream > seller who'd sold me a durian-flavoured ice-cream and refused to give me my > money back when I couldn't eat it. Separating a Singaporean from money? Heh! I only lived there for a few months, about 10 years ago, but even so, I can imagine what that discussion was like. > >> We ate one of the durians at the party. Later in the party I sipped on a > little >> bit of whisky. Words cannot describe the experience of a belch that > brings >> up the flavors of both durian and lagavulin. > > Thank you for that edifying thought. I think I'll go and sniff some stagnant > sewers now. > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
