Kuih and Kvas
Mar. 13th, 2005 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaWednesday was a day of unexpected food. I consumed kuih and квас.
The food at the Malaysian Food Festival at the university smelt delicious as I walked in and gazed at the bright colours of sweets and read the strange sounding names of various dishes. I tried some round green chewy kuih sweets covered in coconut. They looked a bit like the pictures of onde-onde but were flatter.
In the evening, my Russian teacher offered cups of Kvas(квас) to the class. It is a non-alcoholic drink often made with fermented rye bread and unsurprisingly, tasted quite like beer. Searching for details of the drink, I came across a London website that claimed that two thirds of Russian men die drunk. Disturbing.
The food at the Malaysian Food Festival at the university smelt delicious as I walked in and gazed at the bright colours of sweets and read the strange sounding names of various dishes. I tried some round green chewy kuih sweets covered in coconut. They looked a bit like the pictures of onde-onde but were flatter.
In the evening, my Russian teacher offered cups of Kvas(квас) to the class. It is a non-alcoholic drink often made with fermented rye bread and unsurprisingly, tasted quite like beer. Searching for details of the drink, I came across a London website that claimed that two thirds of Russian men die drunk. Disturbing.