Global Spotlight focuses on employees from the Mitsubishi Companies, who are excelling in their respective fields around the world. In each issue we will get to know different employees, who will tell us about their hometowns, businesses, culture, and past-times.
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Malaysia: a multicultural state which caters to a wide range of gourmet tastes offering many different styles of cuisine including Malay, Chinese and Indian. One of the most popular foods eaten here is noodles. These come in many varieties including yee mee, much like instant noodles, char kway teow made from rice flour, mee fun and yellow mee (egg noodles) which are similar to Japanese ramen. But the noodle dish I wish to introduce is pan mee or flat flour noodles, a dish that is a favorite of a colleague who has been assigned from Japan and who considers himself a true gourmet.
    While my colleague was working in the Shah Alam office he became hooked on the soup type of pan mee but later switched to the dry variety which is not served as a soup. Things eventually reached the state where if he and his family missed their weekend trip, the only time they could go to the Kin Kin restaurant in the center of Kuala Lumpur, they would all start to develop withdrawal symptoms.
    One of the restaurant’s most popular dishes is chilli pan mee which is basically the dry chilli pan mee eaten in the northern region of Borneo in East Malaysia but which is cooked using a soya sauce unique to Kuala Lumpur. To the noodles, which resemble the chewy Japanese udon noodles, are added a soft-boiled egg, fried onions, ikanbilis or small dried fish, deep-fried fat and specially prepared chili. All the ingredients are mixed together thoroughly and the result, as he raves, is a delicious and spicy-hot explosion of taste that seems to spread to and ooze from the pores all over his body.
The Malaysian pan mee noodle dish offers a flavor unique to Malaysia and not to be found in Taiwan, the home of this type of Chinese cuisine
In this modern age of technology, air-conditioning or cooling is needed, both in industrial or residential sectors. In Malaysia, before air conditioning was introduced, many village houses were roofed with thatched roofs. The use of this roof is to reduce absorption of hot air into the house. Not only are they roofed with a thatched roof, the walls of the house are also done in the same material.
    In addition to the cooling of the house, the human digestive system also requires refrigeration. The ancients took or drank young coconut water as a remedy for fever or body heat and it has proven effective. Even now, there are many people who drink coconut juice in the hot afternoon of Malaysia. Although it is a very thin taste, please try it, when you come to Malaysia.
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Bah kut teh : Pork rib cooked with many types of herbs and eaten together with rice and Chinese tea © AFLO
Singapore gained independence from Malaysia in 1965 and has been developed by the first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. The country is almost the same size as Awaji island in Japan and the city is full of greenery; hence its “garden city” name.
    A member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Singapore has a population of 5 million and is a multiracial society made up mainly of Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians. With this multiracial makeup we get to enjoy a vast variety of food such as chicken rice, rojak (many varieties of fruits and vegetables mixed with prawn paste), satay (barbecued meat), chili crab,and bak kut teh(pork rib cooked with herbs) to name but a few. A favorite
pastime for Singaporeans is of course food and some of us go to the extent of scouring the island for the tastiest dishes.
    Singapore is a world leader in several areas: It is the world’s fourth-largest financial centre, it has the world’s second-largest casino and gambling market, and is the world’s thirdlargest oil refining center. The port of Singapore is one of the five busiest in the world, and is most notable for being the busiest transshipment port in the world. Singapore enjoys one of the highest GDP rates per capita in Southeast Asia, a rate that is actually higher than Japan’s.
Resort World Sentosa Casino
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I am an accountant by training and have headed the Finance and Administration Department of DNT Singapore Pte., Ltd. (DNT-S) since 1994. My role in this function, inter alia, is to ensure that the department works smoothly, that corporate and statutory regulations are being adhered to, and that the assets of the company are being safeguarded.
    DNT-S has been in operation in Singapore for the past 40 years. The main products manufactured and supplied by DNT-S can be classified into three broad categories: Architectural, Protective and Industrial. Our main customers are aluminum extrusion manufacturers, steel fabricators, and governmental departments.
I practice Tai Chi, a form of Chinese martial art, and also go jogging during my free time. I also believe in spending quality time with my family whether joining in with activities at home or going out to a park together.
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