Last night, I attended another PROMUDA Embassy Series event, at the Australian High Commission. It would be really shallow and rude of me to report that the highlight of the evening was the dinner, but I say this with no disrespect to the Australian High Commission.
As I expected, the event was superbly organised. Australians are known to be wonderful hosts. A good indicator of how the evening would progress: we were welcomed by Simon Merrifield, Counsellor of the Political and Economic Section - in fluent and eloquent Bahasa Malaysia.
The dinner was meticulously put together by an Australian chef attached at the Shangri-La. Everything about the dinner was Australian, from the Tasmanian salmon, to the pavlova - except for an interesting distraction - the soup tasted suspiciously like ox-tail soup, albeit a very light and pleasant one. Full menu to follow.
To make the entire evening more enjoyable, dinner was accompanied by live music from the MPO.
As we headed towards the Q&A session (after the pavlova, during the brie and figs), I thought to myself, this must a ploy to catch us off guard. Good thing was that the bust-a-gut dinner didn't deter outspoken PROMUDAns from asking H. E. Mr James Wise, Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia, about everything from human rights policies, to Australia's alignment with the US in its anti-terrorism policies to education and tourism.
Overall, the evening was organised in such a way that was distinctly Australian: from the cuisine, to the openness in embracing the ways of their guests (or in our case, their host country), to the frankness of discussion. Not to forget, in true Australian-style, free-flow of Australian wines, which I think some people enjoyed a bit too much. ;)
I have only one complaint on the evening - that they missed out one of the best things about Australian food: Tim Tams.
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With all that food, you were thinking about Tim Tams? Tsk Tsk
Posted by: Fische at 2003年05月29日 09:46i miss tim tams too! when padma gonna buy us some? heh, have asked my brother to buy me 1 dozen and courier it back through my parents!
Posted by: maria at 2003年05月29日 16:51maria: i think it's also sold at isetan klcc laa... bought a few packets the other day. =)
Posted by: sarini at 2003年05月29日 19:07sarini/maria: did you know that the ones they sell here are nowhere near as good as the ones you can buy in Australia?
Posted by: najah at 2003年05月29日 20:39its the same like kit kats.. i mean the quality, comparing the one in UK and malaysia.. 3-4 yrs ago there was a great difference..but sadly now the uk kit kat tastes like malaysia kit kat and i dont buy them anymore.. bloody MNC nestle... making it too mass market... i mean it used to be wrapped in a foil, then a sheet of thin paper, then the red wrapper... now its just like packaged in a foil red wrapper.. sucks.. used to be more milk chocolatey
Posted by: faren at 2003年05月30日 15:20Tim Tam? I am in full agreement. But it must be made-in-Australia Tim Tam, and nothing less.
Delicious life.
Posted by: Jeff Ooi at 2003年05月31日 15:35