Things you've never dreamed of

Braised chicken and rice from La Manila.

Wat tan ho, my favourite noodle dish. Also known around Malaysia as Cantonese style kuey teow and kuey teow siram. From La Manila.

Ngiu chap mee hoon, from a little coffee house in my suburb. That day we had a different uncle serving up the ngiu chap and he was a bit stingy with the meatballs.

Nasi campur (“mixed rice”) from Restoran Seri Malindo. Clockwise from bottom left, kerabu mangga (green mango salad), sweet potato leaves cooked with chilli and peanuts, sambal eggplant and ikan masak lemak (fish in spicy coconut milk).

Bad photo but I’m posting this here to show you the green stuff on the right of the plate – sayur manis or “Sabah vegetable”, my favourite vegetable ever. Here it’s cooked with chillies and a bit of belacan. I forget where I ate this, it was some random cafe at 1 Borneo.