The hospitality laid out for us has been excellent. I think this is something lacking in our corporate hospitality. We're very utilitarian that way. It's not exactly being thrifty, even. We watch our budgets charily- many bells and whistles are done away with. Protocol is usually pared down to the minimum necessary. But of course protocol is still accorded whenever appropriate. It's the warmth and the geniality that we lack.Yet I fear that if we overdo the courtesy, we'll be taken advantage of. If we maintain a distance, we'll be accused of arrogance. Same thing: person to person, people to people, firm to firm; nation to nation. Tip-toeing around Protocol is no fun.
In the usual Asian fashion, our hosts make we are well fed and watered.
The kueh is a little heavy on the sugar. Quite a few pots of tea are sweet. The Indonesians must really have a sweet tooth. I like the fruit. But I didn't eat any. Too lazy to peel them lah. :p
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they do.. very sweet tooth.. not me though.
Imp, you have tonnes of spicy, pungent foods in Jakarta.
Great to know that Singaporean like you have great appetite on chili and dun encounter any bad stool.
For me, no chili no talk. I eat ungodly amount of chili (almost everyday). Heh.
jomel: me neither. no wonder i love your bakes.
celcilia: ummm. you mean diarrhea? okay, i don't have a sensitive stomach. i eat roadside food in jkt, bkk and delhi and i'll be fine. i think alot of singaporeans don't have my cast-iron stomach. heheh. we have so much chilli here too. so most singaporeans eat alot of spicy food with chilli anyway. i know very few people who don't take chilli!
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