Welcome to a new edition of the Newsletter. I would like to give a warm welcome to our new readers.

This issue of the is written mostly when I was traveling on my bicycle in south Thailand. After spending Deepavali and Hari Raya with my good friend David in Parit Buntar I took a short vacation. Interest to see what south Thailand looks like? I am working on a few pages on my bicycle-adventures.com website.

For this issue there are again some great topics included. One of them is specific Malaysian recipes. You can have a look at more recipes page for this edition recipes. However, you may find it more useful to get the recipes e-book which contains the same recipes as the mentioned page. Download your e-book copy here With every issue of the there will be an update of both e-book and more recipes page available.

Look out for the next issue number 12 of the . It will be the last of this year and we will cover the Raja Muda International Regatta plus an exclusive report of the traditional Chinese wedding. It will be very different from the Indian Wedding I have covered a few months back. Missed it? Have a look here: http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/indian-wedding.html

What do we have in this edition of the ?

• Raja Muda International Regatta
• Teluk Dalam Resort, get your FREE STAY
• The new Pulau Pangkor Feed!
• New at Pulau Pangkor.com
• Deepavali and Hari Raya
• Recipes

You can read our latest updates in my Blog:
http://www.pulau-pangkor.blogspot.com

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Raja Muda International Regatta

The Raja Muda International Regatta Malaysia 2005, an international passage race yacht regatta, will be stopping over in Pangkor. The 30 to 40 yachts will arrive at Pasir Bogak on Sunday 20th November in the morning. The boats will be the whole day at Pasir Bogak before a day later the start for the second leg will take place from Pangkor Laut.

The start of this race will take place at the 18th of November in Port Klang at the Royal Selangor Yacht Club and via Pangkor and Penang it will have it's finish in Langkawi at November 26.

For visitors of Pangkor Island it will be a great chance to see so many sea worthy yachts in full action. Participants come not just from Malaysia. It's an international race organized by RSYC in conjunction with the Malaysian Yachting Association.

See for more information about this spectacular event:

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Raja-Muda-International-Regatta.html 

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Teluk Dalam Resort

Under the title "Aloha 123 : Welcome to the island of Paradise", Teluk Dalam Resort offers a special promotion which is valid until 31st December 2005. The offer includes:

2 days 1 night at the Melati Chalet,
welcome drink,
buffet breakfast,
buffer dinner/steamboat

Complimentary karaoke at Pentas Bangsawan

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New Pulau Pangkor Feed

The Pulau Pangkor Newsletter is bringing you all the updates up and around Pangkor Island on a monthly base. However, if you want to stay in touch more frequent, the Pulau Pangkor Feed is another option.

No idea what I am talking about? Read here more about what a FEED is: http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/help/rss.html

I publish here from day to day (actually if there is something to publish) news about Pangkor and updates of the website pages. As you already knew, I had some feeds running but I had to move them. So if you have subscribed for the Feed earlier, please remove the feed and replace it with:

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Pulau-Pangkor.xml

or right click on the orange buttons or

add the feed to either My MSN or My Yahoo:
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NEW at Pulau Pangkor.com

There are a few new pages at pulau-pangkor.com.

- Mesra Feri

Mesra Ferries are not just for transporting people to and from Pangkor/Lumut. Read more about the multi functionality of Mesra Ferries and book your own private cruise around Lumut or around Pangkor. 

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/mesra-ferry-to-pangkor.html

- Ikan Bilis

Ikan bilis (in English anchovies) is a specialty of the Pangkor island fishing industry. Read more what ikan bilis is, and what you can do with it.

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/ikan-bilis.html

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Deepavali and Hari Raya

Two important festivals in just three days! It happened all on the 1st of November with Deepavali and the 3rd with Hari Raya. If you have read the last Special Edition of the

you will know what the festivals mean. Missed the last newsletter? No problem, read it now:

http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/Pulaupangkor_newsletter-newsletter-special-3.html

This year unfortunately I was not able to spend both days in Pangkor. I spend both holidays with my friend David in Parikt Buntar while I was on my way to Thailand.

Deepavali was a great day, we spend it partly at David's home with some friends visiting. We visited some of David's friends too. Many of David's friends were dressed in new clothes as the tradition expects. Food and drinks were plenty. As it goes in Malaysia, Deepavali is an Indian festival but of course Chinese and Malays were invited too.

The evening however we were invited to join a "small party" by Mr. and Mrs. Khoo Ong Ah Hee. The not so small party was held in a restaurant in Parit Buntar. It contained a several dishes big dinner completed with karaoke and Deepavali wishes for the Indian guests.

At the same time David and I received an invitation for the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Khoo Ong Ah Hee second son. In the next you will read more about this wedding which will be a great party since there are more then 1000 guests expected.

Hari Raya was a quiet day for me. It was the day the David's twins, boys celebrated their 9th birthday which of course was not complete with friends and family visiting plus blowing the candles on the birthday cake.

In the evening David and his family with me were invited to the Hari Raya party with some of David's friends in Parit Buntar. Again it were not just the Malays visiting. It seemed the whole town came to the celebration of Hari Raya. An abundance of excellent Malay dishes included fried fish, mee kari (curry mee), laksa, rice mixed with some (it seemed) alcoholic fluids in banana leaves.

There was a karaoke singer singing not only Malay songs but Chinese songs too. All in all, this was a happy ending of the Ramadan for the Malays and they were more then happy to share it with all their friends.

Recipes

The last had some excellent recipes. Did you miss them? Click on MORE RECIPES page to see them again. Or download your e-book copy here. You will find also two new recipes of dishes you will able to get at Pangkor island.

See the recipes I have added in the MORE RECIPES page or simply download the latest version of the recipe e-book copy here

Since I spend a few weeks in Thailand I thought it would be nice to add some recipes that are more spicy then I usual put here. Thai food, as you may know is more spicy then most other food. So, here's two noodle dishes you can easy find in Pangkor.

This edition of the contains some spicy recipes.

Spicy Noodles - Malay Style

Ingredients:

• 1 (12 ounce) package uncooked egg noodles
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
• 1/2 bunch fresh spinach, stems removed, chopped
• 1/4 cup chile paste
• 3 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon white sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 cup fresh bean sprouts
• 1/2 cup green peas

Method

Bring a large pot of water to a boil, cook the egg noodles 6 to 8 minutes, until al dente, and drain. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat, and saute the garlic about 1 minute. Stir in the spinach, and cook about 1 minute. Mix in the cooked egg noodles, chile paste, and ketchup, and toss until well coated.

Make a hole in the center of the noodle mixture. Place the egg in the center, and scramble, tossing with the noodles just before egg is finished cooking.

Mix the sugar and enough water to keep the mixture moist into the skillet. Season with salt and pepper. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, about 6 minutes. Toss in the sprouts and peas, and cook and stir about 4 minutes, until heated through.

Tom Yum Kung - (Hot and Spicy Shrimp Soup)

If Thailand has a national food, this is it. While the recipe calls for shrimp, any seafood will do and chick can be substituted without altering the recipe -- in which case you have Tom Yum Kai, or Hot and Spicy Chicken Soup. It's a dish easy to find in North Malaysia, especially Penang but also in Pangkor.

Ingredients:

• 1 pound of medium-size shrimps
• A dozen mushrooms
• 1 stalk of lemon grass
• 3 lime leaves
• 6 green peppercorns
• 3 slices frech ginger
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 2 tablespoons of fishsauce (or 4 tablespoons of soy sauce)
• 3 tablespoons of lime juice
• 6 hot peppers, pounded lightly (less, depending on taste)
• 4 cups of water
• 1/2 cup of roughly chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves

Remove the shrimp shell but leave the tails (for appearance). Then cut open the back of each shrimp to remove the veins. Clean the mushrooms with water and dry them well before cutting each into quarters. Trim root and tough layers from lemon grass. Thinly slice first six inches. Bring 2 c. of stock to boil.

Bring water to boil, then add lemon grass, lime leaves, and shrimps. When the shrimps turn pink, add mushrooms, ginger, peppercorns, and salt. Remove the pot from heat after boiling. Add fish sauce, lime juice, and hot peppers to taste.

Serve the soup while still hot in individual soup cups and top each cup with a sprinkle of coriander.