10/18: Okay, my job caught up on me, need to work even on weekends. Well, let me continue blogging on my trip. Sorry guys!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Limpets? Limpeh? Lim's Pet?

When I was visiting supermarket one day, I came across a canned food called Limpets. There were Chinese characters written on it but my mandarin was not that good because I was a quarter of Banana – yellow (Chinese skin color) outside white (Western skin color) inside. Actually I dropped my mandarin lesson after Form 3 public exam because it was the only subject which I did not score an ‘A’ (I ‘kiasu’ - scare of losing), in fact I scored a ‘C’.

 

So, at first I thought it was a local food targeted the locals because the name same as Hokkien word of saying ‘myself’ - ‘Limpeh’.

 

After checking wikipedia, I then realized that it was a kind of snails which Chinese love to have it on steamboats.

 

Silly me, thinking that this expensive stuff is a pet food for Lim’s Pet.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i think i have seen those snails before and i dare not eat.

RYC: sorry for the long long awaited reply on ur genting post.

i was only 20 when i tried to enter genting casino. funny thing is because i look young the lady guard stopped me but didn't stop my girlfriend who was the same age as me. T__T it happens all the time especially when i try to go to bars.

oh well i will take it as a compliment that i am young. :D

no such info is on my blog!

AsX said...

renaye, actually i think i have tasted it before but never knew it was snail... i think...

Anyway, i bet ur girlfriend would be so jealous of u!