Day Seven: Mufasa and Malaysian cats

Posted by Logan

I skipped the tea today. After the first few days they didn't taste very good, and I'm punishing myself enough with other things.

I skipped breakfast entirely, in fact, and had a lunch of Eastern European lasagne called Mufasa or something, and an elderberry drink.

 

Elderberries. They're what your father smells of.

 

Rice stick noodles don't need to be cooked; they seem to be ready to eat after having boiling water poured over them.

Sadly they don't taste of anything and congeal if not saturated in soup, so I ate them in a clump and it was pretty hard going.

I looked at the catalogue of misery that was my remaining food, and took a trip to the Chinese store down on Beach St.

These are blueberry layer cakes.

This is a yoghurt drink with, apparently, fruit.

If you're asking yourself, do those Malaysian prawn-flavoured tubular snacks feature a pink kitten playing a guitar? then you can safely answer No. The kitten is cross-eyed and is simply holding the guitar, and seems to be making no attempt to play it.

I had a look at the ingredients list, and it seems unlikely that either kittens or guitars were harmed in the manufacture of this snack. What suffered a major blow, however, was my confidence in Malaysian cuisine. The prawn flavouring was extremely persistent, lasting hours after the final Snek Perisa Udang was gone.