My wife’s insistence on bringing 12 home-made ‘chang’ (unlike the traditional pointed ones, these are shaped like small pillows) really had me worried, especially with the recent scare in London and bombing in Glasgow. How are we to explain to the British our harmless ‘changs’ which could be ‘hand grenades in disguise’ to them? We were reminded about confiscation of liquids in containers exceeding 100ml, what more strange looking solids which could be thrown like grenades?
Fortunately, we managed to get through KLIA, a 6-hour stopover at Dubai and walking through the Green Lane at Heathrow. We were grateful, as usual, to Alex who took a couple of hours off work at Dartford to pick us from Heathrow. My younger daughter came earlier from Canterbury and she related to us the amazing coincidence of seeing her brother while the bus passed Lewisham College area! Anyway, Beng joined us later at Alex’s house in Dartford.
Having gone through the worries over the ‘changs’ it was gratifying to see Alex, Clem, Beng and Nee enjoying them one morning. Cheng did not get to eat them till we came back from Europe. She had only half as we shared the last 3 ‘changs’ among 6 of us.
Price comparison: for your information, before we went, Nee bought 3 ‘changs’ from Chinatown in London for GBP 2.50 (Rm 17.50) each! Anyway, I have more or less decided that Europe, especially GB, is not my place for travel because I am not loaded and I do not earn money there. Just as examples, imagining having to pay Rm7 for a small bottle of water or a litre of petrol or diesel! Over here, we complain of coffee-shops charging between 20 to 50 sen for a glass! I am glad I am back in my own comfort zone paying Rm3 and Rm1 for a bowl of wantan mee and a cup of tea! I rather they come back to visit us in future, though my wife is not sharing the same view, being a Hakka, aka nomad. I am more a ‘Cheong Moon Yan’ which literally means a person who guards the door, or ‘jaga’ in Malay. It is also HK actor, Eric Tsang’s nickname and he owns a restaurant by that name in Sri Hartamas.
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