Haha! You have to forgive my ignorance... Remember that I left "that culture" at the age of 14, and never spent more than 1-2 weeks in Malaysia again.amhoanna wrote:Is there any other kind??That is to say, there were two "interlocking spirals" cut into the one flat disk, sort of like a complicated version of the yin-yang symbol. One had to carefully "push" the two apart - carefully, in order not to break either one.Besides the electric kind?
Many, many things that I knew from the 1960's and 70's no longer exist there. For example, the "meat-safe", which we (very imprecisely) called an "uaN2-tu5" and niuc a "kiam5-tu5".
Another example (I imagine!) is "charcoal irons".
- http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=Charco ... group&sa=X
I hasten to add that they were rare even when I was young, but some of my great-aunts still had them.