When Malaysia loses to Barcelona

..it felt like the end of the world? Nope, it felt like winning! On the 3rd raya night, I watched the football match between our own Harimau Malaya vs Barcelona a.k.a Fabregas a.k.a Messi.. We lost 3-1 to Barce and personally, it's a winning game for me.

I am not an avid fan of football, not even a fan. Football is a mere field game for me. A game in which 22 men fight to dribbling a ball. With 11 players in a team on field, the men run like crazy chasing after a small round ball. But when Harimau Malaya played against Barcelona that night, I feel the heat. Felt the heat. It is still hari raya, the third day of Syawal and peeps were flocking to flood Shah Alam Stadium to watch the game earlier that day. I guess nothing can beat the heat of a football game. I watched it over the television. It was a good game though Malaysia lost to the infamous football club. Even my husband, the one who never knew any local player, whom never ever bother about the local football arena, lend his voice to shout for Harimau Malaya, which in the end, Harimau Malaya will never discover him as a supporter...*sigh*

It's a great feeling when you win, but it's not always bad when you loose on something. It's a chance for you to improve yourself, and maybe, you are not ready to win, and maybe, Allah wants you to be better. To win in a better situation with a bigger win.

I put myself to test this Ramadhan. I was determined from the beginning of the year to not spoil myself during Ramadhan as what I always did in the past. I told myself to spend Ramadhan in the most moderate way and to give out to the needy as much as I can afford to. That means, no visit to bazar ramadhan to buy food for break of fast, no lavish baju raya, no fancy expensive raya cookies, and to allocate at least a quarter of my earnings for the needy. I consider myself a winner. I didn't win big but it's a win for me. I managed not to buy anything from bazar ramadhan for break of fast. I did went to a few bazar ramadhan selling dishes for break of fast but it was to chaperon my mother and assist her. And, I successfully talked into my mom as not to over spend. We bought what we felt like we wanted to eat in a small quantity and I cooked over the weekends for my mother and sibling to come over and break fast at my place. That's one thing that I took as a really big win for me, preparing berbuka puasa dish for the whole family.

But what I'm going to review here is nothing about what I cook for my family, but my visit to a bazar ramadhan in Damansara Damai. It was my first visit here. I never knew there is a nice small town called Damansara Damai with so much peeps and nice bazar selling good food! 

McDonald's Damansara Damai, the strecth of bazar along the front road

It was still early as at 5pm that day, the bazar was not too crowded

 

 There was rows of stalls selling good food. The sellers were far of friendlier than that of my favorite bazar in Shah Alam Section 13 and Tabung Haji Kelana Jaya. So friendly that whenever I captured an image, they will wave back gayly to my camera phone screen.

Drink stall, RM 2 for each plastic in front of the big tumbler

A stall selling soy drink, fresh & hot. RM 2.50 each. It's clean, the stall's clean..

And, the most interesting part was, the cleanliness of the bazar area. Seriously, it was really clean. In fact, this area was way better than the bazar in Kelana Jaya, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Shah Alam and the prestigious Mon't Kiara. Way cleaner. The surrounding was dense with high rise flats and low cost apartment. The peeps? Nice working people, most of them were young couple I guess, newly married since I don't see many families here. I mean, I do not see many parents with children or baby pram. There was a few parents with children walking in the crowd. But not as many as I can see in any other bazar. I did went back the next day, early in the morning to the area to check on the cleanliness, and walla, I can't find piles of garbage piled up as what I can easily find in the site of bazar ramadhan in Kelana Jaya and Shah Alam. However, I won't be uploading the images captured here the next day because of personal reason, sorry peeps....:)

This stall sells burger malaysia, karipap and cucur udang and a few sweet delicacies. Quite a favorite I guess, there was a long Q...

Murtabak King at RM 3.50 each for chicken & beef.

A long Q here at Pasir Mas Sup 69 @ RM 4 per packet of all those-ekor, tulang, gear box & daging

I find the price cheaper than that of my area. I, however didn't buy anything of the above so I can't say about the taste. But judging from the queue, they sure taste good.

Lack of sensitivity

Talking about good peeps, friendly sellers, clean stalls and cheap price, I was very upset about a few incidents. Lack of sensitivity of drivers such as the above was way too much to be patience with. I will be label racist should I comment further on who is driving this car arrogantly through the crowd. Not limited to car, there was an MPV and few motorcycles raving about through the crowd. What a pity brainless people!

Nice roti jala @ RM2 each packet comes with a curry of choice. My mom bought this a packet.

My upset was loosened upon seeing these beautiful colorful jelly. Didn't buy it, however. RM 2 mix of 5 types. 

Air Air Air, selling @ RM2/packet in the early hours but went for RM2 for 3 packets of drinks during the last 30 minutes before break of fast

My mom ended up bought a packet of roti jala (5 pcs) comes with chicken curry at RM 2. And along the way, she bought 2 packets of bubur jagung from 2 different stalls, 1 pc of ayam percik panggang at RM4/pc, 2 types of fruit juices - dragon fruits juice at RM2/pk and carrot juice at the same price.

Sedap bubur jagung makcik ni, murah dan banyak!

Dragon fruit juice - not that sweet, just nicely sugared for energy

Oh yes, my mom bought 15 jars of dadih mix of flavours @ RM 1 each

After spending quite some time, I decided to tell my mom to stop spending before she go berserk with the bazar's offers. And our last stop was at this satay stall selling lamb satay. I bought 5 pcs of lamb satay from this stall. Because my mother told me 'eh nampak sedap', merely because of that and we wallap everything all 5 of them, hehehe..

Above & below : gerai satay jual satay kambing @ RM0.60/stick

Another interesting gerai selling satay

I never saw any deserted stall selling beriani especially Gam Maharani but this stall was quite deserted during my visit

Nasi Ayam Beragas, far as I'm concern, 'agas' is something I hate because their bite itched..but this one smells nice, ;)

A pakcik, a blind man selling tissues. What can't we peeps just buy the tissue whenever we see these blind person hopping from one restaurant to another..instead of complaining ?? they need to live, that's how they made income, be nice...

Another interesting drink stall

Piles of Tam's Roti John

My mom bought ayam percik here. Was quite nice...

So peeps, should you want to visit bazar ramadhan, be wise and do not over spend. This bazar was located along the stretch of front road in front of McDonald's Damansara Damai. I may go again there next year to review them second time perhaps. Till then, have a nice day & Syawal ahead.