In Vancouver there is the Banana Restuarant along West Broadway which serve "agreeable" Malaysian food.
I went with my family the other evening and we had tasty roti chanai dipped in beef curry. My children had sweet chandol with sweet coconut extract. The chandols are thick, green and wormy. Just the the right consitency. The beef curry is mildly hot and several chunky pieces of meat are quite chewy - just to my likeness. Then we also have sambaled anchovies with cut cucumbers. Then the next savory dish is the aromatic chow kwai taoy but baby claims replace the usual cockles. The cook should be more generous with the dark soya sauce and more generous helping of chilli sauce while the stuff is being fried. We at the kwai taoy with another dish of sambaled achovies. Then another dish of mee rebush, though the gravy could have been a little thicker to my liken. But anyway we finish the dish and order one more. The dinner is rounded up with ten sticks of excellent mutton satay for each of us. We finished off this Malaysian dinner with sweet cakes of multi-coloured red and white and also glutinous blue and white sweets. Guess who paid our bills - my daughter who just had a raise!

You are making me hungry. Can you tell me how much the whole dinner cost?
I sure have to pay a visit to the restaurant and get together with you.

We have many vietnamese restaurants here in the South and their curries are very sweet, altered to cater to the american tastebud!I prefer to cook my own curries.

Sounds like curry from the cans.
I once had curry and that was the worst curry I ever had. Found out that it came from a can.
Yikes. and that was in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 83 year.
I bet it is better now.Curry without the fiery spices is kinda of boring.I love spicy ***** curries, makes my life spicy too.

grace wrote:
Sounds like curry from the cans.
I once had curry and that was the worst curry I ever had. Found out that it came from a can.
Yikes. and that was in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the 83 year.
I bet it is better now.Curry without the fiery spices is kinda of boring.I love spicy ***** curries, makes my life spicy too.

I guess for us oversea people, living abroad for so many years tend to evolved our taste to the local ones. Better canned than no curries, right?
If you want some umph in your food, try planting a cili padi (chillies) plant so you can have fresh one to add to your meal. I planted mine in the summer and I'm still harvesting some for a fresh bite into those fiery little thing!!!

Where are you at?
Planting chili padi? you must be living down way down south of the border close to the RIo Grande.
Yes, you can practically plant anything when the summer is hot and dry.
How about okra?