A rain-soaked Yunnanese Muslim street food shop on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, with a mural of a panoramic Malaysian cityscape peeled and faded on its crumbling walls, flickering fluorescent lights illuminating the dark awning where humid night air clings, vendors hawking steaming bowls of char kway teow and roasted coffee noodles beneath flickering LED candles casting a gaudy glow, patrons gathered in animated huddles beneath antique streetwalker umbrellas, faces illuminated by cold neon signs and iPhones, alleys and facades of urban, multi-storied rowhouses receding into the darkness like walls of dissociated identities.