: : Ramadhan Bazaar ~ KL Version : :

Phone conversation in my cousin’s car. Time approx. 4.00 p.m.

TV : Let’s go to the Ramadhan Bazaar at Kampung Baru. You must see it.

TV : Okay. At 6 p.m.

So, managed to meet up with TV Smith of DuaSen parody fame. Insisted on taking me to Kampung Baru to check out the bazaar and it was pretty colorful. It was a pretty quaint area, packed with people buying food back for Buka Puasa @ Breaking Fast (not breakfast lah!). So, two people with cameras walking around taking pictures. Loads of pictures.

Same picture of the hawker taken by TV in this Photo Essay on Ramadhan. Just that it was at a different angle. His’ was a lot better than mine. The stall owner was more than happy to pose for the photoshoot. Note that there was some coloring added into the watermelon juice. Look a bit too red for me to try it out.

The last picture : the hawker was actually holding up a bunch of veggie and posing for the camera. However, I messed up the shot so when I ask him to take it again, he chickened out and got another pal to hold up the veggie. Cheh!

Now, what is a festive season without some local snacks to munch on? I’m a junk food junkie. Having said that, I hate getting my fingers dirty so will occasionally use a pair of chopsticks to eat it. :p

Me and purple stuff. Including fruits. Private joke with many friends about the color purple. The above is a shot at the mangosteen at one of the many fruit stalls.

For lack of a better word, I’m just going to call this picture a pic of lok-lok. :p The cucur looks so tempting. I’m a sucker for cucur.

Love letters! They are thin wafer biscuits that are both sweet and extremely crunchy. I have yet to meet someone who doesn’t like kuih supit @ love letters. If you that person, you do not know what you’re missing. Unless u’re allergic to the ingredients, of course. :p

This is the mold for making the ketupat. Whole bunch of leaves were being sold at this one particular stall. The Muslim Community is now working throughout the nite, cooking massive amounts of food for tomorrow. Yep, the celebrations start tomorrow. Can’t wait to try out rendang.

Dedicated to my mother : you have one ice-cream tub full waiting for you in the freezer when you get here.

Colorful Asian drinks. Didn’t realised until today that TV also took a similar picture. Tried to look for the picture again and couldn’t find it on his site. The poor guy behind the stall was so bashful. Didn’t want to face the camera and got a lot of ribbing from his friends.

Another bashful guy. He was frying some cempedek with batter. Can you imagine someone bringing back cempedek on an airplane? Aiyo. The stink. Durian is bad enough. Should put signs up to warn people not to bring cempedek anywhere near an airplane.

Left to Right : Ketupats, belachan, chilli boh and last one I have absolutely no idea. Bit lazy to go and check out what it was. Didn’t want to hear any sales pitch from the hawker.

That was the walk through the Ramadhan Bazaar in Kampung Baru. Not a lot of foodstalls compared to the one in Kuching but definitely more variety of stuff for sale. And to think I was thinking of not going.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri to the Muslims! Am doing the round with my Dad again tomorrow morning. He’s coming in from Miri to visit a few people. I’m eyeing to eat some rendang @ dry beef curry and lemang @ glutinous rice cooked in bamboo.

: : Lost Handphone : :

Wena does a dumb blonde : forgot to take the handphone out of the airport toilet. Sigh.

Painful to lose a $$$ phone. More painful to lose all the contact numbers I used to carry. Sigh.

Niki, David, Chooki, please SMS me your handphone numbers to this number : 016 245 8500. Temporary number until I can get back to Kuching to get another SIM card for my old number. Until then, use the number above. TV, I have your no. of my email. Killuminati, Grace, can u guys pass me ur number again? Thanks.

Melvin, Joyce, Gette, Min Yen, May Lin, please SMS me your numbers as well. Melvin, please SMS me Min Yen’s one as she’s suppose to pick me up on Sunday night at Kuching Airport!!!

God, talk about a bad start.

If anyone knows the handphone to Karl Erik Chee, please ask him to call me. Lost the phone, lost his number and was supposed to meet up for makan yesterday. Sorry, Karl. Sigh. Shit happens, shit happens.

Am now temporarily at a cybercafe in KL trying to contact people. Sigh. Anyway, do SMS me your no.s . I won’t be able to check my email regularly so SMS me at the number above.

: : Trip to KL ~ Part II : :

A little note to let everyone know that I will not be updating my blog while am in KL. No PC around!

Probably will have limited pictures to bring back. We’ll see how much space is left on my camera after the family pictures are taken.

Anyway, cheerio! Until Monday, that is.

: : Hotel Grand Continental ~ Part V : :

Almost done with the pics from this buffet. Phew! Probably another posting after this and finito. So, more red stuff below.

Left is a plate of acar @ pickle salad. Done the same way Granny did it. Josh of Food Section fame also did it. Right is freshly cut kedongdong which is very sour. Must eat with rice.

Chinese style fried rice. Usual fried rice flavour. Can’t say much lah. It’s just fried rice i.e. easy to do but delicious all the same.

Now, doesn’t the fried mee look delicious? And no, it ain’t worms! :p

This is a fusion dish : pasta cooked Asian style. Basically stir-fried with green peppers, mushroom with some chilli sauce. I think.

Definitely tasted good. The fish was grilled first and the sauce poured over it. Again, I think.

Lamb chop with specially cooked chilli sauce. Goes together pretty well. And, it wasn’t tough! The meat that is.

Well, 4 out of 6 dishes were red. Not too bad this time.

: : Trip to KL : :

Okay. Got a call from Dad last nite that my passport came back and I need to go to KL for an interview at the US Embassy. Sigh. Oh well. Hope the interview goes well.

So, am taking the afternoon flight on AirAsia to KL this Thursday. Due to the flight availability, can only get back on Sunday nite! Will there over the weekend. Well, hopefully can get a taste of Penang Prawn Mee and Pan Mee. Miss eating those stuff.

Plus, I owe a laksa dinner for some friends. Wonder if they still have the paste though.

: : Hotel Grand Continental ~ Part IV : :

Looking through my folders, I realised that I still have a lot of shots leftover from the 3 days of training at Hotel Grand Continental. As usual, more red coloured food. They sure do like to use a lot of chilli powder to their cooking.

Now, this is beef curry. Not the same as beef rendang as the flavour is different, not to mention that this is a wet curry. The meat was a bit tough so it was not easy to eat this.

Some chicken curry for taste. You know, it was very difficult to find anyone selling chicken curry at the Masja Ramadhan Bazaar. Hmm… I wonder why.

Kuching restaurants are always offering crab. Probably because we can get it very fresh here. The above crab is cooked with a very tasty and delicious spicy sauce.

The most popular Chinese dish in the Western world! 🙂 Presentation wise, it look terrible. Taste-wise, it was divine. Yum.

More pics tomorrow!