A Surprise and Some Food Issues

IT has been quite a great week and weekend. Met up with an old friend from New Zealand, who is back for a while before going back again. Haven't seen him in a long time and, goshhhh.. he has changed. Not the change that I quite expect from him. But it did happened and talking about The change that happen.. is still today, quite unbelievable but then again after listening to his explanation, it sounds quite believable. Puzzled..??Confused...??Nevermind

Went on to have lunch at McD at Centrepoint. And just a few days back, Alex was mentioning something about clearing the table after eating in McD on his blog, coincidentally, my friend asked me the same question. Do people in Malaysia clear the table after eating?? And my response was, NO. People in Malaysia hardly cared about clearing their table after eating and throughout my entire life eating in McD, only a few occasions where I recall people clearing the table. Actually, I can still count with my fingers. And then he told me that in New Zealand, everybody clears the table because they are required to do so. So should McD here enforced the same regulation so that people here follow suit??

And then I asked him if the value meal portion is much larger there. Surprisingly...no. I always thought kwai los portion will be much bigger just like in US and UK where the pizza and burger portion is considered quite big by Malaysian's standards even for a small meal. Even a medium pizza that costs US$15 is like the large pizza here in pizza hut or Domino's, packed with cheese and real filling stuff that can really make you bloat and wander how these Americans have the stomach to eat them. Actually the answer to this discrepancy here is because in New Zealand, the labour is not cheap and so the portion there is about the same and you pay more there but dollar to dollar, there's no difference actually.

So relatively speaking, is it because the Kwai Los, are larger and the Asian's are smaller hence the difference in sizes of the meal?? Does that mean that because of size difference, Caucasians eat more than us or is it simply in their diet to eat large meals. I can't conclude about that because maybe the portion in McD is bigger than other fast food restaurants overseas and furthermore I really did not have the chance to eat at all the fast food restaurants. But still based on what we all know about Western Diet, it is usually high calory and high fat. Even without the size factor here, high calory and high fat can cause a person to put on weight than normal. I say that genes does also play a factor in determining our overall physical appearance and most of the time when we meet Caucasian's they are usually taller and bigger but still proportionate in size.

Talking about snacks, I asked him if it was true that their snacks are bigger. Indeed it was and it confirmed what my father said about their chips and snacks which puts all our keropok and snacks into the small category even for the large. So eating chips there can really be your dinner or lunch...Errrrrr, that is if you really want to.

Not that I'm specifically implying the food issues to him, but I was just curious about some happenings in New Zealand which includes food. After not seeing him for close to two years, I guess after eating lamb, beef, snacks and a whole lot of other food plus being a mouse-potato definitely does spring up some surprises.