My darling doter was managing the counter at the shop the other day. She was already dead bored as sales was slow to pick up.. and antara sedar dengan tidak, a customer asked her ..

"This Lemon Grass Fried Chicken has lemon in it, izzit?"

Her (blurred) response : "Ha'ah".. and then when she realised what she had answered, she (quickly) corrected herself.. "Ehhh..bukan, lemon grass.. err ada serai".

That reminded me of her dad.  A small group of people carrying out a survey on local fruits came to the door, so I woke him up from his nap (too lazy to layan them myself) and asked him to respond to the survey.

Question : "Encik ada makan buah2an tempatan?"

Answer : "Ada"

Question : "Namakan beberapa jenis pisang yang encik pernah makan".

Answer : "Pisang Mas (his favourite).. err pisang rastali (the type that I will only eat).. pisang kaki (baru beli semalamnya)".

Survey people finally left.  I then asked him what it was all about and he told me.  I asked him .. "pisang kaki tu sejenis pisang ek?"

"Ehh.. entah ek!!"

We had a good laugh.  Each time we eat persimmon a.k.a pisang kaki, we will remember the incident that happened 26 years ago.