Pre-Raya Feast

So, I came back two days before Eid Fitri and the family had a pre-Raya feast. It was awesome because staying abroad for almost two months, I have to confess! I miss Malaysian food. It's true what they say; you can take the Malaysian out of Malaysia but you can never take Malaysia out of the Malaysian. We love our food and that's that! *Ahem* because our food is tasty and spicy. :)

Nasi Kukus

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Nasi Kukus from the Ramadhan bazaar. A discovery made by my brother-in-law. Hence, he introduced it to the family. Sorry for the unclear pic. Literally, it means "steamed rice". Served with fried rempah(spiced) chicken and it's eaten with sambal belacan and a gravy I believe to be a diluted curry. Very tasty!

Peanut sauce, Gado-gado salad, Soysauce Chicken, Chicken Rice sambal

The picture above shows my aunt's take on the Indonesian Gado-gado which is really, a kind of salad served with peanut sauce as it's dressing. The salad consisted of hard-boiled eggs, boiled potatoes, lettuce, and tomatoes. The top right of the picture shows the soysauce chicken to be eaten with rice(Chicken Rice), bottom right is the sambal to go with it. It's really easy to make the sambal. We just blended about 3 cloves of garlic and about 5-6 fresh chillies. We then seasoned it with salt, sugar and about 1-2 tablespoons of lime juice(up to you, really).

Cempedak Goreng, Kuih Bakar, Pulut Panggang

Top left of the picture shows cempedak goreng, a.k.a.fried jack fruit and the centre of the picture is kuih bakar, a type of Malay kuih made using pandan, eggs, coconut milk as some of it's ingredients. Also, you can see pulut panggang which is grilled glutinous rice, stuffed with desicated coconut, chillies and dried shrimp, wrapped in banana leaves for that distinctive aroma.

Lets just say that Eid came early for us! ;)