Ramadhan di Brunei

(Actually entry nih patut lama dah post..tp due to busy schedule..la ni baru terhegeh2 nk post..sorry frens...)

This is first time I have to celebrate Ramadhan luar M'sia. After 2 weeks ramadhan berlalu, baru terasa betul pepatah "Hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, baik lagi negeri sendiri". If in Malaysia, we can feel that betapa meriahnye ramadhan disambut. Time bukak puasa, everywhere we can find the bazaar ramadhan & we can see kebanyakan bazaar mmg sgt pack.

Here also got bazaar ramadhan but the bigest one that i know is only at Bandar Begawan, 1 1/2 hours from our bungalow. They start the business at 2pm (very early becos bukak puasa here is about 6.30 pm). For our bungalow area (Lumut) near to Kuala Belait, it's very hard to find bazaar, maybe disebab penduduk yang tak ramai. Brunei only got 300,000 penduduk. Terrace house is very rare to see, most of it is rumah atas tanah lot. Diorang mmg kaya tanah.

The food variety here also not so many as in M'sia. Mostly all boots sell ikan bakar, ayam bakar, nasi ayam, nasi lemak, etc. Not so many special local dish. The only one that i know is Ambuyat. Ianya sagu dan dimakan dengan lauk pauk n kuah sebagai ganti nasi. Maybe I have to dick more with the local people about their special local dish.

On first day puasa, i got chance to go to their Bazaar in Bandar Begawan. Luckily sempat snap few pic of their local kueh. I also realize, everywhere they sell air selasih (can remember the local name), it was evaporited milk mix with a little bit ice-cream soda, perasa, and biji selasih. Sometime the color of milk is green or yellow, depend pd apa perasa yg mereka letak. The taste pon not bad. But apa yg kureng sket, they use the recycle plastic bottle (such Pepsi, Coke) utk isi air selasih dan jual. I'm a little bit couries bout the cleanliness. Dunno why they don't want to use plastic bag instead.

Ni special kueh in Brunei..but forgot the name already...sorry..

Yang ni pun same..forgot the name but quite nice..ada rasa yam, durian, cempedak.

I've tried their chicken rice before but selera org Brunei mmg agak berbeza dgn orang Malaysia. Sambal Brunei mmg sgt lain dari sambal Msia. Especially sambal belacan and sambal soto. Jika di Msia, sambal soto kebanyakannye makan bersama sambal hitam, dan supnya adalah dari rempah soto, tp di Brunei, sup soto kadang2 ada yang rasa sup tulang, ada yg rasa sup sayur, dan smbal nye ada yg gune sambal merah, ada yg cili api goreng, ada yang gune cili api blender semata-mata. Pelikkan? But its not that I maksudkan yang diorang x pandai masak, mungkin hanya selera mereka agak berbeza dari orang Msia.

Every ramadhan, Sultan Brunei akan bersedekah kurma pada setiap rakyat baginda..at least 2 pack for each house.

Actually there is many more that make me feel different....kalau story x muat la pulak. Maybe in the next entry. But I really missed to celebrate ramadhan in Malaysia. The sadis one is, i only got chance to celebrate ramadhan with my beloved husband on our first year marriage. 2nd year pulak aku berpantang kat kampung Segamat, and 3rd year nih, kat tempat org pulak..uwaaaaaa........