A New Way to Eat Fish, Batu Caves, and the Goodness of God

 

Here is Sister Yong and Sister Lambson entering Foong Foong's Yong Tau Foo retaurant. Me and Elder Yong are right behind them. This is a special place that the Yong's took us to try some of the local cuisine. The food here is based on fish paste. It was a little hard to fathom at first because "fish" and "paste" are not words we ever expected to use in the same sentence. This restaurant serves a variety of vegetables and other foods that are all filled with fish paste and then cooked.

Here, you see two women cooking a couple of the dishes that we ate. The woman on the left has a bowl of tofu and she slices it and then scoops some fish paste from the red bowl and inserts it into the tofu and then fries it in a big wok. The woman on the right is stuffing red peppers with fish paste and cooking them in a similar way. There are several more cooking stations like this. We ate tofu stuffed with fish paste, stuffed red peppers, stuffed eggplant, and another dish that was like a fish paste filled egg roll. They also give you some spicy dipping sauces. Cheri and I love to try new things and they don't always turn out well but this one did. All of the dishes were Yum and we highly recommend it the next time you are in KL.

These steps lead to the entrance of Batu Caves. This is perhaps the most popular tourist destination in KL. The site consists of limestone caverns near the city inside which a Hindu temple has been constructed.

This shot is taken inside the caves which, as you can see, are not totally enclosed. They are open at the top in some places and sunlight enters from above.

This is another photo from inside the cave near one of the structures of the temple. Tourists are visiting as well as Hindu worshippers. The family in the yellow clothing are here for a ceremony but I did not inquire as to the specifics. I will show another picture of this family at the end of this blog post.

We see macaques in many places here including in our neighborhood. There are quite a number of them at the cave and they seemed to be ok with all the people around. You don't mess with Macaques, they have very sharp teeth and sometimes people do get bit.

I asked this beautiful family if I could take a picture of them and they graciously consented. We have met so many wonderful and diverse people. We were talking with another missionary couple this week about how polite, respectful and kind the people we meet are in Malaysia and Indonesia. As we spoke of our love and admiration for the people of these lands we could not help but think of God who made us all. I had never told anybody before this but when I draw or paint I try to make sure my heart is right before I start because I have this belief that any bad feelings will come through in the painting. We talked about how perhaps it is true that whenever you look at someone's artwork you can tell something about the person who created it and when we look at God's creations we can see something of Him in all of them. Perhaps we see Him in the earth with all its wonderous beauty, differing climates, landscapes and the endless variety of plants and animals. Our telescopes allow us to see amazing and beautiful formations far beyond this little planet of ours, we see Him there too. And greatest of all, when we look at God's children we see something of Him in each one. There is so much  goodness and beauty in His creations that it boggles my mind to think how truly amazing He is.