Music Man - Mr Lee Hom

Last week, the ladies of the family checked out Wang Lee Hom at his "Music man" concert. Melissa and Mandy was at the concert with Caryn, my sis-in-law from Kuantan and her two die-hard Lee Hom fans daughters. For those of you who don't follow world events, let me explain who this person is. He is an American-born Taiwanese (or Chinese, I forgot which), was raised in the US without knowing how to speak Mandarin. He is very talented on most common instruments and came to Taiwan to compose and perform Mandarin songs, learning to speak and read.

Being good looking also didn't hurt him becoming a pop idol and mobbed by screaming Oriental fans. Melissa is one of them though her screaming is at a lower decibel but I suspect it isn't due to her lower intensity but more of her age. Screaming doesn't come easy.

Anyway, I dutifully fetched them all in my 7-seater to the stadium and got dutifully stuck in the dutifully traffic crawl that you expect at a major pop star concert. My wife is a very frugal person but she will spend if there is a basis for it. Her elder sister though is from a different spectrum. If you look up the term stingy in a dictionary, her picture will be there. Being the eldest of 7, her childhood was really tough so it kinda carried with her.

So because of her, we bought the cheapest tickets and the ladies ended up almost at the top of a 80,000 seater stadium. The good news was, there were big screens. The bad news was, everyone had leg cramps, it was hotter than a charcoal furnace on the Titanic and Lee Hom was 2cm tall. Luckily they had binoculars, so they could follow Lee Hom on stage before it gave them nausea.

My brother-in-law, Kly and Mikey then went out to dinner. Since frugality was the theme of the evening, we headed out to Sungai Besi to have this many-dishes wan tan noodle. For my foreign readers, pls look this up. Wan Tan noodle is our simplest food that is available anywhere in Malaysia. It is served with grilled pork, dumplings and noodles in soya sauce or soup.

This place had other accompanying dishes like Hakka stewed pork, wild boar curry, roast and honey BBQ pork, chicken feet (I can almost hear our foreign readers wincing) with mushroom and stuffed beancurd with fish paste (yong tau foo la).

When the time came, we dutifully drove to pick them up braving the jam. Me, the one who couldn't tell left from right and Kly, the blind as bat lawyer. Of course with that sort of handicap, it's always better Kly drove.

It was another superb show from Lee Hom with kept our ladies very happy and singing late into the night. Next posting I am going to tell you about the concerts that I have gone to which will shed some light into a Chindian's music taste.