Todays discoveries

My last Friday in Malaysia has been typically sweaty but uplifting. Realise clean non city tropical air is easier than fumed, dank, drain smelling, cooking smelling tropical air. Walked to and from the Portuguese settlement and can see no reason to book into the expensive looking Lisbon Hotel for 'genuine' portuguese cum malaysian fusion food. Will hunt out alternatives that tourist office yesterday recommended. Good walking at dawn (7.15 ish) and little traffic, people doing Tai Chi in groups, cats and more cats, seeing the Straits for  the first time, watching a local with his rod out fishing from the beach into brown well rubbushed water. Discovered Fish Ball Mee Soup. Now know mee is the malaysian word for wheat and these were mee noodles in the soup. Used 'saito' fish. Used something like our melon scooper to scoop out solid balls of fish that did not disintegrate during cooking. Included in the soup were 4 balls, a tiny piece of battered thin fish that looked like fried tofu - very sea tasty, mee noodles that looked like thin hokkien noodles, chopped parsley stalks, in a fish stock that was exceptionally tasty but clear. Very strong flavour but marvellous. Some oil but very little Saltiness from salt or the fish and/or the ocean?