Old Dutch Sector (cont’d)

The first picture in the series is my Malay desert all mixed up which was the last dish we ate at a Malay Chinese restaurant. It certainly doesn’t look appetizing in the photo but when the dish arrived we were told to stir all the ingredients together and of course it had some red beans in it.
One of the ways that you can tell the influence of the Dutch is in how they constructed the houses because every culture it seems has a preference for an architectural style that is a part of how they build.
According to the guide the Dutch used skinnier bricks whilst the English built with shorter fatter bricks. The Dutch also had a certain style of louvered window shutter which set them apart from the English homes they also had a different style of roof structure.Read more