: : Bazaar Ramadhan ~ Part IV : :
Right, what pictures do we have today? Thought we’d go and check out foods that are different and interesting.
I saw this and tried it out. It was a very interesting dish. The veggie is known as pegaga which I’ve never tried before. It was extremely tasty but wasn’t bitter. The amount in the bowl is worth RM1 @ USD0.26 . Enough for me and Granny. Did a Google on pegaga and found out it was a herb used for medicinal benefits. It is not a bitter veggie and it went down well with the crushed peanuts. Some more information about the nutritional value of pegaga.
Thought that the packaging was quite cute. This is the gula apong @ some sort of brown sugar. It’s something similar to gula melaka @ brown sugar from melaka with a faint liquorice after taste. Anyway, gula apong is apparently made from the stalk of a nipah plant. Click here to read about it (you’ll need to press CTRL+F to find the words ‘gula apong’. it’s somewhere in the middle of the page.)
Now this was something I did not expect to see : bubur durian @ durian porridge. It’s not a real porridge with rice but rather similar to bubur chacha @ a dessert that contains coconut milk, sago pearls, yam (sometimes) and sweet potatoe. Hmmm… didn’t dare try it in case the durian as off.
This is a local native fruit called dabai. To eat it, one has to blanched it in hot water to soften the skin. Then peel off the skin and eat the yellow flesh inside. Sort of like a local version of avocado. Here is another picture of dabai (you will need to scroll down a bit). Also, with some nutritional value.
I’m feeling better today and so is Granny. I hope she’ll start to feel better for the next few days. Her bout of flu was a lot worst than mine. It’s hard to get her to slow down and rest for awhile.