Hope you'll enjoy this video I took at our local pasar malam (night market) in Bukit Sekilau, Kuantan. These markets are very popular in Malaysia and are alive with colour, sounds and smells:
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Monday, March 3, 2014
Friday, June 10, 2011
Day 3 with my parents in Kuantan
Yesterday we went out to East Coast Mall. My mum bought a new purse from Parkson. Whilst waiting Lauren chatted with her grandad for a while:
Grandad had his spectacles tightened so they don't fall off the bridge of his nose every time he looks down. He can actually see through them now! Lauren entertained her grandma this time:
On the way up to Carrefour to buy some food:
We also searched for some sarongs (kain batik) around Malay Town. My mum wants to buy some so she can make cushions out of them. We found a nice purple one and the girls working at the shop couldn't stop telling Lauren how cute she was! Here's a picture of them all:
Later in the evening we took my parents to the night market (pasar malam) just down the road. We bought a load of sugar cane (air tebu), my favourite! And I do like to play with the remaining ice:
We also bought a kilo of rambutan for RM6 (just over one pound sterling). They are funny little hairy balls with a sweet fruit under the skin:
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| Apologies for the poor quality of this picture! |
After dinner of mashed potato with sweet potato (yam) I took a few portrait pictures of us. I used the "soft skin" mode on my Panasonic Lumix DMC-F2 but I'm not sure if it makes any difference to the skin tone in these pictures:
Friday, March 25, 2011
Pasar Malam (night market) in Bukit Sekilau, Kuantan
"Pasar Malam" is the Malay words which mean 'night market' in English. Every Thursday evening there is a pasar malam in Bukit Sekilau, just a short walk from my house. It involves a number of stalls stretching for 150 metres on a village road in Bukit Sekilau. As you'll see from the pictures, a variety of foods and other things are sold at this weekly pasar malam.
I ordered my favourite, nasi dagang, which is rice with a piece of fish and curry. The rice is wrapped in the green banana leaves, the fish curry tied with rubber bands in small plastic bags.It costs just RM2.
This portable restaurant on wheels sells steamboat food, in particular fish...
My wife's favourite here. This Chinese food is called 'Pau' and is like a white bread which may contain a variety of different fillings...
Foods waiting to be fried and sold...
My wife loves this little pink dessert...
Can any Malaysians help me to identify this little treat?
A variety of fruits are sold at this stall. The big green one is soursop, and makes for a delicious drink. At far left is a fruit named 'jambu air' or water apple. The fruit 'longan' can be seen at far right, but I'm not sure what the small orange-coloured fruits are?
Our favourite drink, 'air tebu' or sugar cane! Every time we go to the pasar malam we will buy this gorgeous drink.
This is the sugar cane juice extractor machine. The man simply pushes in sticks of sugar cane at the top of the machine. The dried stalks come out and fall on the floor at the bottom; the juice is caught behind in a container...
Here's one of a handful of clothes stalls...
We also bought some 'satay' - flame-grilled chicken or beef on a stick with peanut sauce...
Finally, here are some paper cars, which the Chinese use to burn as an offering for the dead...
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