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Entry: The Simple Joys in Pasar Malam-ing Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Looming finals means quick dinners.

- Chup, I can hear my neighbours screeching and screaming. And then gushing. You know the tone some girls use when they talk excitedly giggling like a bubble about to burst? And they are stamping their feet on the parquet floor. That's what it is like to live in a housing area dominated by university students. I can only imagine the situation in the SS15's housing area. (where there are taylor students, inti students, tbs students, metro students, maybe some monash students..)

Strolling along the weekend pasar malam outside our house was a good change from the boring kuay teow thng, char kuay teow or chicken rice.

Kebab!! They put it in a pita bread with some salad and mayonnaise and chilli(but none for me!) and press the bread against the fiery mesh to heat it together. IT TASTES SO GOOD. We're eating more of it the next week.

OOoh!! So pretty. But too much of colouring in my food makes me sick. I remember eating a blue jelly when I was 5 years old and puked my guts out. My phobia was still around when Pepsi Blue was launched!

Variety is good.

This is the Keropok Lekor seller. He laughed at me when I asked him if it was keropok lePOR that he was selling. Slip of tongue what. I'm not that bodoh. :(

Mini steamed pink, yellow and white flour cakes. Okay, fine, I don't know what it is. But it's usually used for praying during those chinese festivals. Can anybody help me out here?

My favourite vegetable is KangKong. Stir fried with garlic and I will love you foreber. Look at those luscious long green stems and sleek and slender leaves. I just want to tear them up and throw 'em into a wok. Rowr!

Hey! They even sell brocolli! Damnit, now only I realised.

Lie Yuen and I both got a cup of sugarcane from this uncle. Sugarcane water is sooooo refreshing. I don't know about you, but when the sweet liquid slips down your throat and cools it right to the back.....oh god.

THE BEST APOM MALIK EVER!
Apparently there is a difference between Apom Malik and Apom Balik(or am I being blur and stupid again and they are actually the same thing?)
Okay, what I've learnt is that Apom Malik is thin and Apom Balik is thicker. Thin is crunchy and crunchy is good. Really good. Butter. And Peanuts. And some sweet paste on a pancake. Heaven.

Putu Mayam! I don't quite fancy it. But it makes a nice subject to photograph;D

Some prawn thingie. Wanted to try though but then I felt nauseous when I realised that it was actually all oil that the stuff was soaking it. *hurl hurl*

I like this photo of the Pineapple Lady. It's so candid yet the picture is clear.

Nah, the fatter apom balik with fillings for you to choose from. Very 'zhai'. Not so nice.

I thought air cendol was supposed to be brown in colour? I love the cendol in Malacca.. I used to drink it everytime we came back from my grandfather's office in Malacca Town when I was younger.

A little girl wondering whether to buy sotong or fish for dinner. Hmm.

A whole lot of fishies! I've never tried buying fishes before..... I just don't know what to do with them. What do I do with them?

Authentic cempedak man. With the tummy and all. :P

Outside act big only, but actually inside small small one.

Instant death. Colouring and artificial flavouring...ewwwwww. But I'd still drink that shit anyway. *sigh*

Looks ew right?

But that's how they marinate their chicken before roasting em! I learnt that technique back in national service, that clipping the chicken between a splinter technique.

Kuih-muih.. tried it last week. Nope. Not good.

I love pisang emas!! Much better than the imported long long ones. Malaysia Boleh!

Just a random shot.

OH EWWWW... don't want to drink Soyabean from this store already. They prepare their soyabean in an old bucket. Ewww. A metal bucket also not so bad lah. But you know how grime gets collected in the scratched parts of a plastic bucket? Yeah. Eww.

It was pretty disturbing watching the woman remove the chickens' organs. I don't quite know what to make of this picture.

After spending about RM5 each, we decided to bring our spoils home to sit down and enjoy(and overeat and feel like shit after that).

Next to the pasar malam is a wide open field and it gives a fantastic view of Gunung Jerai!

Everyday it surprises me with different formation of clouds around it. Lie Yuen has gotten bored of it long long ago(she no longer layans my "WAH!! See the mountain! See see!" every morning on the way to class)

I saw a fluffy cat before going home. I was chasing the cat trying to get a good shot of it and the neighbourhood crazy man was like giving me instructions in Hokkien on how to take good photos of annoyed cats.

Fluffy kitty with crazy-old-uncle-who-has-a-bag-of-pee-hanging-from-his-waist in the background. He is quite harmless lah but just goes around having heated debates with the housewives(see even the Malay ladies across the street just let him sit on their driveway) and in the morning, he goes to the guard house and pretends to be the guard.

Pretty kitty ya?

No, this is not wet hair. This is OILY hair that has not been washed for 24-26 hours. Yeap. I'm disgusting. Bite me.

It was rain rain raining all day today and look what happened to Gunung Jerai? See the mountain! See see!!

17 comments


	Jayelle June 25, 2006 04:19 PM PDT fern: points finger and shrieks YoU'Re All DiRty GalS, DIRTY I TELL YA... =) eh say thanks to your mum.


	fern June 25, 2006 05:05 AM PDT har? 24 hours? mine twice yours and half of expectation's xD wash too much not good shakes head in disapproval later all puffy and messy. Maybe i'll just wash the fringe part everyday if it looks oily after exercise or something And my mom from penang calls the mini pau's "phuat kuih" sounds like that, not sure


	Jayelle June 23, 2006 06:13 AM PDT sharlini: oopsie! my bad. :) sugarcane is also related to cat urine. have u gotten that email before? c.ho: aiks? i thought ur in melbourne all this while??? SORRY..!!!! yeah i'll try that;P


	c.ho June 23, 2006 01:51 AM PDT i'm in nz.. and yeah.. it ain't too humid. but even in m'sia i don't wash my hair everyday. too dry my hair. ooo.. hey.. you know they have some of those shampoos for really oily hair? you could try those maybe? although.. i think oily hair sometimes good. cuz.. hair's not dry and prone to split ends-.-" like mine.


	Sharlini June 22, 2006 06:52 PM PDT Hi Jolene, I think that's nangka, not cempedak. ;) And as for the sugarcane...my mum says that most times, the sugarcane got worms and do you think the sugarcane seller gonna bother with worms? Yup! Sugarcane and squished worm juice! And yet, sometimes I close two eyes and just order. At least the sugarcane masks the taste of worms, yeah?


	Jayelle June 22, 2006 03:00 AM PDT hehehe icicic. were in taylors during the same year? i'm from Ladybird kindergarten then SRSS19..then SMSU..:P also went to taylors. now in kedah. so sad.


	sjdude June 22, 2006 02:42 AM PDT me ar ...im sj kaki lor ...last time from srksj and then smsj ...then taylors now sunway


	Jayelle June 22, 2006 12:24 AM PDT angela; hehehe that's my purpose. nah, mine's the FX8;) bought it in October. yuin: oddly, a few of them said thank you..0_o.. but i didn't bother to look at them after i took the photos.like walk away pretend nothing happened...act like it is damn normal(it IS damn normal for me..) leech: got bananas in apom malik? hahaha... thanks. but i think if you set your exposure higher and use the correct settings, night time pasar malam might actually look nice. and those hanging light bulbs would be useful too what. haha the one in SS13 ar/ c.ho: ahha.. aiyoh, maybe coz ur in aussie where it is not so humid vy: i have no idea! but the chinese usually use bigger versions of it for the prayers sjdude: you know.. in all the years that i've been living in SS18(..4 to 19 how many yearS? 15. ) ..i've never actually ventured out to that bazaar. i really really should. :) which part of subang are u from anyway? expectation: EWWWWWWWWWWW.. later your oil drip on your keyboard then you know synical: haha glad it had that effect on you;P.. ahh..kuih apom. i think it is. i like gorreng pisang too! don't like the potato ones mizzvickz: ahha not coming back for the june break?


	mizzvickz June 21, 2006 10:50 PM PDT i want to go to the pasar malam too and buy my peanut kuih and drink tong sui :((


	synical June 21, 2006 12:45 PM PDT You had to remind of apom balik/malik - I've not had that in AGES!!! I missed my sweet Malaysian banana when I was overseas - gorged on them banana fritters like nobody's business, haha. I think the pink, yellow and white things are called kuih apom (at least, from the packaging I see in the supermarkets anyway)...


	expectation June 20, 2006 11:12 PM PDT cheh 24 hours only ah? mine is four times longer than that. ok ok going to washlah now!


	sjdude June 20, 2006 10:48 PM PDT the prawn thingi rite ..i think its called cucur udang ...as for the chicken ....aiks i have forgotten wats it called ...but its being sold during the ramadhan period at the ss18 food bazaar


	vy June 20, 2006 06:19 PM PDT is the mini paus called fatt kou?


	c.ho June 20, 2006 02:28 PM PDT wow.. you have oily hair.. i mean.. i usually oni wash my hair once in 2 days.


	leech June 20, 2006 04:18 AM PDT ooh, i didn't know the difference between apom malik / balik , if there really is such a difference! :P anyway, i like the apom balik with sliced banana filling... damn nice ler! nice pics, i can't take pics at pasar malam because the one i go to in cheras is dead pitch black when i go, and if i use flash, all the owners might throw their kuali at me.


	yuin June 20, 2006 03:59 AM PDT do the folks at the pasar malam give you wierd looks when you photograph them?


	Ãngelu§ June 20, 2006 03:58 AM PDT Hey, you've got a Lumix too! Issit FX9? I got myself the red model :) Ah, looking at your pasar malam pics makes me homesick...

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