Side o’ the road…

We’re more or less halfway through the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan but no, I have not been to any of the Ramadan bazaars around town.

I was actually looking forward to those as we had not had it for two years now owing to the pandemic but I saw the Youtube video of the one in town and I was horrified to see the crowd and a friend told me that it was worse at my favourite one here. That was why I did not venture to either one or any of the others as well.

The other day, however, I decided to go and see if there was anything worth buying at the government-sponsored GPS stall by the side of the road right outside the lady’s house. It is along Jalan Ria, round the corner from my sister’s house and I did stop by a few times before a long time ago to buy her very nice sambal petai (stinky beans)…

Yes, the stall was open and much to my girl’s delight, she had bubur pedas…

…a specialty that we would only get around Ramadan here. My girl enjoyed it a lot even though I felt it was kind of lacking in terms of the ingredients added and also the rempah (spices) used. We can get some a whole lot nicer at my favourite Ramadan bazaar like the one at this place here, for instance…

Ah well! I guess beggars can’t be choosers so that will just have to do for the time being!

I would say the kuih jala…

…was very nice though and she was very generous with the meat and potatoes in the curry gravy provided. I used to buy this at my favourite Malay kuih place here and they used to give a tiny piece of chicken and potato and then, just the potato and lately, they will only give you the curry gravy, nothing else inside.

Last but not least, we bought this tub of mutton curry (RM15.00)…

…and we had that with rice for dinner. We sure enjoyed it a lot!

The three items came up to RM26.00 altogether – my missus did not ask how much each of them cost. I guess one of these days, we shall go back there again to buy the lady’s sambal petai (she did not have it that day) or we may venture into one of the bazaars before the end of the fasting month.