The Sun Only Rises. But When It Rises, It Rises Over The Meta Verse (Meta Verse 3 to be specific)
The sun blazes with the heat of ... A single sun shining relentlessly on The Tropics. Relentless. Hot. Relentlessly hot. Threatening to blister tender white skin in seconds. Oh, wait, we tried to establish that previously. Lunch was tricky today. Simple yet tricky. The warungs open at 1500. I was hungry at 1300. I decamped to the kopitam sure I'd find something I wanted on the menu. Corn dogs? No. "Chaos Nachos?" Decidedly no! OK, French fries and lemonade. Cannot get any more Malaysian than that. As the tourism office says here: "Malaysia is Asia!" (Honestly, that is their slogan. This meal aside, well and the Subway franchise down the street too, it is very wonderfully true.) Kecap ("Ketzapt) originated in the Malay Archipleago ( The Good Stuff ) as a sweetened soy sauce. The British took it home, back in the day. And, of course as the British are prone to doing, butchered its name. Worse, they changed it entirely. Since the summer of 1