“I started from Xi’an all the way up to Beijing and the number of people who speak English is very rare, and they all speak Mandarin, like China Mandarin, very different from the Malaysian Mandarin. I can speak basic Mandarin and communicating was very hard there. So on my way back I was alone and the plane that I was boarding was Air Asia right, so when I heard the conversation between the stewardesses – I teared up. They were just having a simple conversation you know, but in Malay. It was a bit of Malay and English – Manglish. I don’t know why I teared up, like it felt so nice to hear something familiar after so long. And then once I got seated inside the plane, the first thing I did was order Nasi Lemak”.
– Humans of Kuala Lumpur — with Nadia Zamri.
Photostory by Mushamir Mustafa
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(This post was first published on September 23rd 2015)
