Scubaism

Dom Joly, the British TV comedian, stayed in Tioman for diving recently and wrote about it for Timesonline.co.uk. Here’s my favourite bit:

Most nights, I went to a little restaurant up the road called Sarng, where I became addicted to a particularly fine mutton curry. Mutton is so underused in the UK, and I’m a huge fan of the stuff. It’s perfect for stews and curries. Every night I’d munch my way through a huge bowl while watching the fascinating little fat man who ran the place. He’d always be sitting, shirtless and with a big smile, behind his desk, endlessly counting piles of money and smoking cartons of Lite Ups. He was the spitting image of one of those laughing buddhas that you see in tacky markets in Bangkok. It was Laughing Buddha who informed my friend Kaj, a couple of days after I’d left the island, that the “mutton” they served was, in fact, goat. Ah well, it was delicious. Goat is so underused in the UK …