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Published: October 28th 2006
Ramadan Bazaar / Sunday Market
For Sale! Lemon grass, ginger, woven 'ketupat' fronds for rice to go with 'rendang' and satay'!The month of Ramadan gives everyone a chance to buy and taste the fantastic wide range of yummy Malay and Muslim food in Kuching - cat city, where else, but the Sunday Market at Satok Road. A slight haze still enveloped the city as we hurriedly made our way past hundreds of stalls to the far end of the market. Finally we arrived at the "food zone"! What a relief and assurance to smell and hear the sizzling noodles..nasi lemak...etc.. It was hard to know where to start as hunger pangs were hampering me from making wise judgments about calories and cholesterol. From the oh-so-colourful multi-layered combo tiered 'kuih lapis' cakes ( some bearing names of popular singers like Siti Nurhaliza, for example - she's just been conferred the title of 'Datuk', folks..so it's now ..erm...eg...i'd like to place orders for 10 kek lapis Datuk Siti Nurhaliza, please...), to the kuih lapis Mawi ( another 'famous' singer )....this one's easy: 1 Mawi, please..) back to food... tapioca , yam, prawn, fish crisps (kropok), home-made cookies beautifully packed..all kinds of curries, rendang, tempe, fried beehoon (vermicelli), noodles, etc..not forgetting 'lemang' - glutinous rice wrapped in pandan leaves cooked in bamboo...mmm....pickles, steamed buns,
Ramadan Bazaar / Sunday Market
Have we enough chillies for the curry?? kuih apam, etc etc..etc..( do check out the pics and see if you still can name them all, Pim! )
Stalls offering coloured drinks in plastic packets ( blue drinks are still unavailable !!) did brisk business beside fresh sugar cane juice crushers, and it took us almost 2 hours before we finished buying all that we wanted! So take your pick(s), folks, there's still tomorrow (last weekend before Ramadan ends )...just let your nose lead you to the barbecue zone where dozens of terubok fish are being smoked over charcoal fires and chicken grilled to near Sunday-market perfection ( rm 4 - 8 each ). Last words..i really admire the resolve and willpower of friends who have been fasting the whole day while buying these for the breaking of fast later in the evening...( especially the cooks who prepared or were cooking those mouithwatering food )....Mark W, and the rest ..eat your hearts out...better still, come back home during Raya next year! :P
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