This spot is always crowded whether it is a weekday or a weekend. When we were there last week, we shared a small table with two friendly aunties who are in their forties at least. They told us Toh Soon Cafe has been around for more than 30 years. Both of them live nearby and they saw and knew about this place since they were very young. "Now, it is run by the new generation", they claimed. What they love the most is his black coffee or what the Penangites called it 'Kopi 'O'' ('Kopi' means coff…

As you look at a good photograph, it will have elements that will sort of lead your vision to explore and move into the subject of the photo. The elements are lines either implied or direct, visibile or invisible that guides the eyes to each element of the composition and guide you to 'explore' the photography. In photography theory these are callled leading lines. The basic idea is that these lines keep the eyes from wandering out of the picture but tends to keep the interests leading fromt he…

'Friends birthday celebration', I guess that was the excuse we made to get together and fulfill our gastronomical indulgence in a steamboat restaurant.Steamboat is popular among East Asian (Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Thai) community. It is cooked with a variety of raw material like vegetables, slices of pork/chicken/fish/cuttlefish/jelly fish, mushrooms, prawns, fish/meat balls, tofu and they are to be simmered in a pot of broth on a table before being served hot. Historically for Chinese in …

This is an article distributed via email. It is a sweet story with beautiful message! An elderly man in Mumbai calls his son in New York and says, 'I hate to ruin your day son, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are getting a divorce; 35 years of marriage... and that much misery is enough!' 'Dad, what are you talking about?' the son screams. 'We can't stand the sight of each other any longer,' the old man says. 'We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you ca…