Rectangular shape of plain rice

The plain rice was served in rectangular shape. Rare !

It was seldom see the serving like this. This is a Thai food restaurant. Mostly restaurant serve the plain rice in the round shape. Creative !

Chinese like to serve the rice in round shape. It significant all the way will be as smooth as round shape. Mostly they will put the rice in the small bowl and press a bit, to make the rice had no space between each other. It will make the rice stick together also and the shape is formed.

Then they will put the plate on top of the small rice bowl which had been pressed. Carefully over turn the bowl and plate. Just take out the bowl and we can see the beautiful round shape of rice on the plate.

Somehow in the house, most of them never really follow this kind of serving. Nowadays, they seldom use bowl, Chinese spoon and chopstick to take rice, but instead of that they use the western style of fork, spoon and plate.

Mistaken the karaoke lounge with the local department office building

Many years back, a group of us went for entertainment after work in Selangor. All of us for that group were new comers. Although we do not quite understand the social custom here, we did learned from time to time but this one is not yet programmed in our mind and quite special during that time. Infact it was already like a joke or an experience which keep in everyone's heart.

That night and also in the festival seasons, we made decision to go to Karaoke lounge for the entertainment.

Suddenly we saw many beautiful and colourful bulbs lights, so my friend told us that we need to get ready to go down for the entertainment. We just followed.

When near to the gate, we just found that....it is not entertainment places whereas it was the government department building. At that time we all laughed because we thought that was the entertainment area. Again, we left that location quietly and continue to go to searh for the real entertainment place.

The next day, my local friend told me, because of the festive seasons, many buildings were setup with all the beautiful and colourful lights in order to celebrate the great event during that period. Some even put the neon running lights.

From that experience, we became more careful and alert in knowing the local people social custom and culture.