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Wednesday 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.

Date: 2005-03-13 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] fluffymark
I think Kvas soup is a old traditional Russian thing. Soup is not supposed to be fizzy. Ugh.

Date: 2005-03-16 12:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fluffymormegil.livejournal.com
Now I recall tales of the, ah, interestingly malfunctioning drinks vending machine that would produce things like "cold fizzy vegetable soup with milk and extra sugar".

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