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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 11:44:34 JST Adrianna Tan

   Downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 11:54:23 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • May likes Toronto

     @mayintoronto yeah, this is where I first lived as an adult, got cookie etc

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     May likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 11:54:24 JST May likes Toronto

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     @skinnylatte Does it feel like home?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 14:03:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Hope to be able to make it to my favorite restaurant

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 14:15:42 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Just one of the many Malaysian snack shops out here. Love this stuff, will get a ton of stuff to bring back with me

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 14:25:57 JST Adrianna Tan

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     My favorite Malaysian beverage (available at most Chinese-ish restaurants and stalls)

     Barley fuzhuk cincau: cooked barley water, iced or hot, with tofu (yuba) and grass jelly

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 15:13:10 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I am always surprised I have a Malaysian Chinese accent when I speak Mandarin here (different in Singapore, and also in China)

     My Malaysian Hokkien accent is also different depending on whether I’m in Penang or KL

     And people are just super confused by my Malay (because I sound half Malaysian Malay, half Jakartan Indonesian)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 17:59:09 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Having an incredible time. Randomly found Blitz, a coffee micro roaster in Kuala Lumpur

     Aqmal the owner is really passionate and he even distills his own water

     I’ve never had specialty coffee that is made of Liberica beans but he had a small batch from West Java and it was really unique

     https://maps.app.goo.gl/cN2KyL2ahGQz8DeG7?g_st=ic

     #Coffee #KualaLumpur

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 18:44:53 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • David P

     @pewnack people who are really serious about making coffee or beer like to make their own water to mimic water sourced from specific parts of the world

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     David P (pewnack@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 18:44:54 JST David P

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     @skinnylatte

     What?

     You shouldn't be drinking distilled water.

     Oh, I suppose if it's going through coffee it's ok, but why?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 20:03:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @pewnack yes, they distill it then they add minerals according to a specific recipe depending on what they’re making, to accentuate the taste of the beer or the coffee

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     David P (pewnack@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 20:03:23 JST David P

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     @skinnylatte

     So they add minerals afterwards?

     Because distilled water isn't safe to drink.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 20:10:04 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • David P

     @pewnack yep, it really does impact the final taste for specific styles of drinking

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     David P (pewnack@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2026 20:10:05 JST David P

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     @skinnylatte

     Is it noticeable?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 04:16:03 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Whenever in KL, the ‘chilli pan mee’ is usually a top 3 food item for me.

     A bowl of udon-like (but firmer) wheat noodles, with a topping of a homemade crunchy and very umami roasted chilli.

     Super Kitchen is one of the classic spots for it and this week they had a seasonal special: the noodles are coated with a salted egg yolk sauce.

     If you’ve ever had a mazesoba it’s almost exactly the same just the feature of this dish IS the chilli (you can’t make chilli pan mee without also making the homemade roasted chilli paste)

     https://maps.app.goo.gl/Sxcs2Vb6uMvzWa8J6?g_st=ic

     #Food #KualaLumpur #ChineseFood

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     P Segal (nspsegal@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 04:27:41 JST P Segal

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     @skinnylatte You're a citizen of the world belonging everywhere at once.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 04:27:41 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • P Segal

     @nspsegal hehe, true

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 05:19:59 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There are so many cuisines in Malaysia, all of them ‘local’. Depending on who you are (ethnic group, social class) and also your dietary requirements (halal, etc) you may eat completely different kinds of foods at different kinds of places.

     I’m a fan of the contemporary modern Malay chains like Serai, which does the classics really well.

     Of course, I can get better nasi ulam and CKT on the streets somewhere but sometimes you just want a nice sit down place with family, that makes all the classics in an above average kind of way.

     I honestly believe if chains like these were anywhere else in the world, they’d be the best Asian restaurant anywhere.. just that those of us who grew up in Malaysia and Singapore have impossibly high standards for the traditional foods here (‘must be better than grandma’s).

     Serai the restaurant, lots of locations across the Klang Valley

     #Food #KualaLumpur