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Durian For Sale. Asia Loves This Fruit, But
The Smell Is Hard To Get Over.
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Betel Market Pekanbaru, Betel leaves are
chewed along with the Areca Nut. Betel leaves
are used as a Stimulant, Antiseptic and breath-freshener
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Durian Is A Fruit That Asian Consider to
Be a Delicacy. To Most Westerners the Odor
Is Too Stong to Overcome.
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| Root Pasar. The Pasar Had Just About Anything
That You Needed, But It
Was Not Cheap. |
Tjabe Was Made By Crushing Peppers and Mixing
it With Garlic and Oil. |
Food Pasar. This Was Very Common All Over
Asia. I First Experienced
This in Japan in
the Early 1950's |
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| Children In Pekanbaru |
The Pasar in Pekanbaru Is Where Everyone
Goes To Get Their Food.
Most Expats Did Not
Go to Pekanbaru |
Stan Washburn With a Crowd of Children Around
Him. Children Would Flock Around Westerners. |
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| Fruit Pasar |
Smoking Was Very Common Among Indonesians.
This Store Keeper is Enjoying His Clove Cigarette. |
Most People Rode Bicycles or Motor Bikes.
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| Stan Wasburn and Dub Dorsett in Pekanbaru
Shopping |
Stan and Gloria Washburn and Yvonne in The
Gold Store Buying Gold
Jewelery. Asians Tend
to Put Their Money in Gold
To Avoid Currency
Exchange and Inflation. |
Houses Along The Siak River Were Built on
Stilts To Compensate For The Rise and Fall
of the River. The Rivers Were Influenced
By The Tides and Heavy Rainfall. |
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| Side Alley in The Pasar |
Coconut Pasar. |
Vendor Selling Juice To People Shopping in
The Pasar |
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| Gloria Washburn Bartering With The Lady Over
The Price For Bananas |
Chickens Are Brought To The Pasar From The
Farms To Be Sold Here.
You Can Buy Them Alive
or They Will Kill Them
For You |
This Man Makes Juices That He Sells To Shoppers
in The Pasar |
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| We Stopped Along The Road to Buy Some Pinapples
From a Man on A Bicycle.
He Was on His Way
To The Pasar To Trade His
Pineapples For
Other Commodities. |
Yvonne Beside Our Toyota in Pekanbaru. We
Owned A Car Which Allow
Us The Freedom of
Going To Pekanbaru. |
A Small Taxi Cab Can Be Seen Behind Our Toyota.
Most Expats Would Use These
Taxis To Get
From The Pontoon Bridge
To the City Center.
No Company Vehicles Were
Allow in Pekanbaru. |
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| This Type Boat Was The Primary Means of Transportation
in The Siak River |
This Mosque in Pekanbaru Was Built By Caltex
As A Community Project. |
Bike on The Jalan in Pekanbaru |
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| Women Eating At Party |
Women Selling Food At Pasar |
Woman Laying Out Fish To Dry in Dumai |
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| Girl Beside Bamboo Near Rumbai |
Boys Drinkig Juice From Plastic Bag At Pasar |
Man Walking Down Road Near Dumai |
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Street in Pekanbaru |
Caltex Pontoon
Bridge over Siak River |
Penni delivered
Chinese food to our house until he opened this cafe. |
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| Young boy at Pasar |
Children at Pasar |
Taxi cabs at Siak
River. Caltex vehicles were not allow in Pekanbaru. They
parked on the Rumbai side and the took a taxi to the Pasar |