Yay! Another story for Smile is out!
Kindly click the link again if the first time doesn't bring you to the actual story. (I've already alerted the editor about this hiccup.)
"Try These Unusual Travel Ideas When You’re in Metro Manila"
One time, a Malaysian newspaper mentioned 50 Cent the rapper, and said he would be 1.50 Malaysian ringgit.
The exchange rate is now USD 0.50 = MYR 2.11
Also known as
- S$0.64
- 8000 rupiah
- 28 pesos
One of my earliest food memories: buying fresh coconuts from the back of someone’s truck in a parking lot. Walking my coconuts to the back of the Econ Minimart where the auntie who ran it had a coconut squeezer and scraper. Walking away with fresh coconut milk, and a bag of coconut flesh. I was probably four
Then one time, walking to my office in Jakarta and realizing I couldn’t access it because the entire ground floor was full of actual coconuts.
The other day I was watching an American food show and the host was complaining about coconuts in their cake (“so unconventional, you don’t always want coconuts in cakes”) and I was like what are you talking about, I never NOT want coconuts. You guys just have shitty coconuts, shitty coconut milk, and words of all, terrible ‘coconut water’
I miss that part of the world so terribly.
