Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head ...

I had my mind set to go get some stuff from the Ramadhan bazaar today and made plans with wifey as early as lunch time, telling her I'll be home a little early to fetch her to the bazaar. I've been wanting to go and savour some of the mouth watering dishes they have there since they started business on Monday.

And seeing as how our fridge is pretty bare at the moment and there really was nothing to cook for dinner tonight as we haven't done our grocery shopping just yet, packing some food from the bazaar seemed like a pretty good idea. Besides I've been salivating all day imaging the sumptuous food there.

I told wifey I was going to go wild and buy everything I laid my eyes on, to hell with my diet for this month. I could always get back to it next month ... hehehe ...

So, the stage was set, there I was eagerly waiting for the time I could leave the office and head home to pick up wifey. Then, the worse that could happen, happens. It bloody well starts raining. And heavily at that. I look at the time and curse. It's almost time for me to head off and with rain that heavy, how in heavens name were we going to go food hunting.

But I was determined. Rain or no rain, I drove home to pick wifey up, headed to my younger boys school to pick him up and then in the pouring rain, the three of us headed for the stalls in our umbrella, well wifey and the younger fellow had the umbrella anyway. I was decked in my waterproof windbreaker with the hood up and we gaily pushed and jostled our way through the rest of crowd.


I was surprised at the amount of people there, with their colourful umbrellas all seeking to buy the tons of food on offer there. Even though everyone was practically getting soaked to the bone despite the umbrellas and all, that didn't stop them. They were all as determined as we were in seeking some Ramadhan goodies ... hehehe ...



Let's just say in the end it was kinda worth it cos I was stuffed silly during dinner. We ended up buying quite a few things. Wifey as expected went for all the cakes and savory stuff. My younger boy requested the 'Roti John' and 'keropok lekor' (some kind of fish crackers, best I can translate this ...) and me, well, I settled for beef soup seeing as how I couldn't locate the 'sup kambing' stall. We also bought two dishes for dinner which was 'nangka masak lemak' (urmmm, young jackfruit in some stew) and 'daging masak kichap' (beef with thick soy sauce).

Overall I would say that everything tasted as yummy as I imagined it would except for the soup which was horribly bland. I ended up boiling it again and adding more flavoring to it which helped a little. But I was a little shocked at cost of all the things we bought. Though we didn't really buy all that much, it came up close to RM40.00! Not really what I expected everything to cost.


The price of things have really gone up by a lot. I don't remember the price being that high last year. Imagine if I needed to satisfy my cravings for Ramadhan goodies every day, I'd probably go broke by next week. I mean the food is good and all that but the price has got me thinking twice about visiting that bazaar everyday. Maybe once or twice a week would suffice. Unless of course they accepted credit cards ... LOL!



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I think I'm going to head to bed right now cos I'm totally stuffed and my eyes can't seem to stay open any longer. Must be all that good and deliciously rich food I had just now. In fact I'm still so stuffed, I feel a little like Jabba the Hut right now. This month of Ramadhan is so going to ruin my diet. I'm going to have to work extra hard after the festivities are over just to shed the added weight I'm expecting to put on from visiting Ramadhan bazaars around town. I've heard there are some other pretty good ones outside from where I live and I plan to go try them out this weekend :D

Buurrrrpppppp .... Oh, do excuse my horrible manners ... LOL!
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