Transcript: ‘That's what you call fresh’

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Ethan Fagon:

I liked Malaysia. I don’t know... the fruit, the culture, the food... and everything, um... you could eat... well, most of the tropical food that I know from home, you could find most of them there – nearly all of them there. Things like mangos, papaya, pawpaw, bananas, a lot of things.

And the food in Malaysia, as it was then - Malaya as it was then, sorry – if you wanted a fish meal, you’d go to a fish restaurant where there'd be a big aquarium. And you’d pick your fish, and they’d catch it for you there, and they look after it. And you sit down and you have a glass of wine or a beer or whatever you want, and they’ll bring you that fish. 

That's what you call fresh – no ice box or nothing.

If you went to a chicken place and you want a chicken, there’d be a back yard of chicken and you point towards your chicken, and they’ll catch that chicken for you. And then you sit down, and same thing.

I used to love that, you know. Nothing on ice or anything like that. No frozen thing to defrost or anything like that. And um, yeah, I liked it.