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A
stroll
around
the
market
will
find
fish
wholesaler
Lee
Hin
busy
with
cleaning
and
icing
his
fish
ready
for
deliveries
to
local
restaurants.
You
can
catch
a
bargain
of
line
caught
grouper
at
RM55/kg,
cheaper
than
Teluk
Bahang
fishing
village
(RM65).
Other
popular
seafood
are
market
prices
such
as
silver
pomfret
(RM80),
sillago
(RM30),
prawns
(RM75),
squid
(RM36).
Two
doors
down
is
their
outlet
selling
sundry
supplies.
I
picked
up
some
tapioca
starch,
glutinous
rice
flour
and
sugar
in
preparation
to
show
my
6
year
old
the
lost
art
of
making
kuih
kapit
(love
letter
wafers)
for
Chinese
New
Year,
a
lesson
I
learnt
from
my
grandma
Por
Por
at
around
a
similar
age.
A
stroll
down
the
central
alley
of
the
market
will
bring
you
to
many
stalls
on
either
side
hawking
their
wares.
Fried
radish
cake
or
Char
Koay
Kak
was
busy
with
large
orders,
so
deserved
a
try
out.
It
was
a
reasonable
fare
at
RM3.00
without
egg.
The
Curry
Mee
stall
(RM5)
serves
a
bloodless
bowl
with
fish
balls
as
it
is
frequented
by
Muslim
mamak
policemen
from
the
nearby
station.
Another
stall
serves
half-hearted
Lam
Mee
(RM5)
manned
by
an
Indonesian
maid,
again
another
let
down
without
pork
in
its
recipe.
Such
self
regulated
abstinence
from
pork
is
typical
of
local
Chinese
hawkers
bending
over
backwards
to
be
all
things
to
all
men
in
order
to
make
a
quick
buck,
sacrificing
all
their
culinary
traditions
thus
ending
up
in
this
blind
alley.
Never
in
our
history
have
so
many
given
up
their
way
of
life
for
the
very
few
religious
bigots
in
power.
Only
the
coffee
stall
serves
a
deserving
cuppa
of
strong
Kopi
(RM1.50)
for
breakfast.
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