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Cerita Raya Saya

Salam Aidilfitri.. mari sini saya nak cerita kisah raya saya.. biarpun lambat. raya masih ada lagi kan? lagipun saya belum habis puasa 6 (puasa ganti sebenarnya) jadi bermakna cerita ni masih releven :P

tahun ni turn beraya di kampung papa di Parit Raja. kami gerak tengah hari, hari terakhir puasa lepas papa siap dialisis. Alhamdulillah, jalan clear sampai ke kampung. but since masih awal, kami singgah di pekan Parit Raja shopping kerepek & kemudiannya ke kubur menzirahi pusara arwah atok & nenek.

selesai tahlil, kami terus ke rumah nenek(Atok). Rupanya atok dah pulang dari hospital.. hari sebelumnya tu ibu jari kaki kanan Atok dipotong.. Alhamdulillah semuanya ok.

 Pagi raya lepas pulang dari masjid, kami bermaafan sesama ahli keluarga

rasa sebak pulak mengenangkan dosa berpikul2 ni :(

lepas tu kita posing satu family..

kalini raya adik ada.. tapi tetap tak cukup korum! angah & family beraya di Melaka.

tak lupa, mintak ampun dari Atok..

menunggu kunjungan cik abangtetamu..

 sambil-sambil tu kita posing la dulu ;)

dah menjadi tradisi, rumah atok menjadi destinansi pertama di pagi raya.. adik-beradi papa yang duduk dekat-dekat akan berkumpul dulu di sini

besar tak besarnya family papa ni, baru 6 keluarga dah penuh satu rumah! yang ni pun tak semua ada.. bayangkan kalau semua 13 keluarga datang serentak, mau roboh rumah ni!

lepas tu turn kami pulak nak beraya.. rumah pertama yang kami tuju: rumah Wak Rahim, abang papa.

maafkan kami, depan pintu rumah orang pon boleh posing banyak-banyak kali :D

tak lama lepas tu, kakngah & famil pun tiba.. yay, akhirnya dapat gaks raya sama-sama lengkap satu family!

menu special rumah ni: laksa johor. memang mabeles! makan sampai bertambah-tambah tsk tsk!

 budak tecit comey tak bleh dok diam. besoknya tu birthday Aqeef yang ke-2.. happy birthday Aqeef, semoga membesar menjadi anak soleh & berjaya dunia akhirat.. Amin!

oh, tidak dilupakan.. satu-satunya cucu perempuan Hj Mohd Noh & Hjh Ramlah..

geram tau tengok budak bambam nih!

lepas tu kami pulang semula ke rumah Atok. bawak crew kangah jumpa Atok. pas makan-makan (lagi!) kami ke rumah Cik Zam. tak jauh, depan rumah tu je :D tapi tak de plaks gambarnya.. busy makan ler ape lagi ;)

next, ke rumah Cik Sam.. pon tak jauh.. sebelah je. sini pon ada menu spesial - laksa utara & bakso.. dap, dua-dua pon saya balun! macam mana tak gems.. puasa turun, lepastu raya gain balik bertingkat-tingkat!

kangah & family.. arissa dah bertukar.. baju

hmm.. ni tak taulah nak kata apa.. kat mana-mana je boleh landing T_T

tiga generasi.. ajak Aqeef tak mau dia! dia lebih rela kejar angsa :)

petang tu family Cik Maon sampai dari Tenggaroh. dan family kangah pulak balik ke Melaka..

sampai sini je cerita raya saya.. sebab ini sahajalah gambar raya yang saya ada.. padahal malam tu ada 5 buah rumah lagi kami pegi beraya. tapi tak taulah kenapa tak ada gambar!
kami pulang semula ke Sepang pagi raya ke-2.. kenapa awal sangat? nanti saya cerita next entry ;)

Selamat hari Raya Aidilfitri 1434H

Iftar 1434H

Salam 28 Ramadhan. Alhamdulillah dah 28 hari kita berpuasa. Sedar tak sedar lusa dah nak raya dah! Alhamdulillah, puasa kali ni betul-betul economical.. most of the time, satu hari satu dish je.. yelah makan ber-2 je dengan kaklong mana nak lalu sangat.. asal kenyang dah syukur! 

Since tak de entry lansung dalam bulan puasa ni, meh la saya tayang gambar makanan berbuka puasa :D Dah nak habis Ramadhan boleh la tayang gambar makanan, ye tak?! agak-agak tak tahan tak payah tengoklah!

ni mana yang sempat je.. dan yang mana rasa macam special sikit..

nachos & salsa. boleh kata makanan favourite bulan puasa.. repeated for 3-4 times already :) rasa dah sama sedap dengan Chili's punya ;;)

cucur kurma.. menu wajib bulan puasa.. at least sekali pun jadilah

kuay tiow kungfu

murtabak raja.. jalan jauh dari Kelantan ni. tebal. sedap. padat! 

kuih tepung bunga.. first time rasa ni. kata mama ni kuih tradisi orang kampung dia :)

ayam percik. buat masa semua balik minggu ke-2

buah melaka

mac & cheese ku yang putih pucat pasal tak de cheese kaler oren :(

ni masa buffet iftar di Mukalla, Cyberjaya dengan pandas

 

nasi lemak sambal sotong. ni mana boleh tinggal, makanan paberet nih!

itu je. hehe.. yang pasti, tahun ni berjaya lagi sekali tak jejak ke param!

 

Marhaban Ya Ramadhan

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Dikesempatan ini, saya menyusun sepuluh jari memohon ampun atas segala kehilafan diri ini.

Selamat berpuasa kepada seluruh umat Islam tak kira di mana anda berada.
Moga-moga Ramadan kali ini lebih baik pengisian amalannya berbanding tahun-tahun yang sudah, InsyaAllah :)

Ho Chi Minh :: Last Day

We have now come to the final installment of the story of my trip to Saigon.

Right after breakfast, we made another visit to Cho Ben Thanh for last kopek shopping. bought some more kain cotton, gowns for adik baby & kerepek.. pastu sampai kena cari  another luggage bag sebab muatan dah terlebih :D selesai shopping, drop barang kat hotel  & kami 3 beradik laju-laju cari taxi. again, tak susah mana pun, depan hotel je ada seketul :D misi kami hari ni: jalan-jalan sekitar bandar Saigon.

first destination - Hard Rock Cafe.
The taxi fare was around VND30k(±RM4.50), tapi jadi VND40k(±RM6) sebab the driver tak pulangkan baki :(

Hard Rock Ho Chi Minh City
Kumho Asiana Plaza
39 Le Duan Street
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

pardon our jakun-ness. sakan bergambar biarpun terkenying dek silau matahari!

kipas tangan tu dapat free hadiah borong sakan

a lot of designs to choose from.. rambang mata ok!

next, the Saigon Central Post Office. It's only a few hundreds meters form the HRC, given that you know whick way to go la kan. senang cerita, keluar HRC tu lintas jalan, and just go straight until you see a T-junction, with an orange/brown coloured buiding right infront of you. then, turn left, tadaa.. you've arrived! dekat je, jalan kaki pun tak sempat peluh!

the entrance

& how it look inside..

jangan tanya siapa pakcik tu.. saya tak tau :)

3 of us each bought a postcard to send to.. who else? ourselves la :P I was inspired by a friend who did just the same. inspired la konon..padahal tiru! haha, jangan marah ye Kirin :D

mereka ini tulis lama sangat.. tulis apelah tu ye?

lepas 11 hari barulah sampai.. lama sangat, penat tau tunggu. tapi berbaloi-baloi walaupun setakat tulis satu ayat je keke. kalau ada kesempatan, we'll sure do this again for the future trips ;)

right opposite the Post Office, there's another tourist attraction - the Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral

it's the orange/brown building that I mentioned earlier.
click-click-click, and then we move on to look for a taxi. it was hot, so we decided to go back to our hotel. yang lain tu lain kali la, kalau ada rezeki ke sini lagi, InsyaAllah!

sampai hotel, rehat sekejap & then packing.. we checked-out form the hotel at around 3pm, & have late lunch at The Daun. then, off we went to the airport

this much for just 3 days trip ;;)

Alhamdulillah kami tak kena kacau dengan customs officers baik di HCMC, mahupun di LCCT. bawak buah ciku pun lepas! shuuu ;)

itu saja cerita saya. seronok tak terkata walaupun pergi sekejap sahaja :) we'll definitely come back again!

Ho Chi Minh :: The Food

 Salam Jumaat. Semoga hari ini lebih baik dari semalam :)

Hari ini, saya nak bercerita pasal makanan. to be specific, the food in Vietnam :) #FoodFriday, kekdahnya..

I don't know about you, but I can't live without food :P I love food.. eating is one of my many hobbies ;) hah!

we know it's not hard to find Halal food in Saigon, it's just that the price can be a lil' bit 'hard' on our pockets :D therefore, we brought along lots of instant noodles & nasi impit to go with serunding kelapa, sambal bilis & black pepper beef. plenty enough for 2-3 meals!

 we had breakfast at the hotel, so dah selamat di situ. lucky us, there's one very friendly hotel staff who's able to speak Bahasa, who upon seeing us, immediately shown us the food fit for Muslims. even though there's not much to choose from, it was filling enough to last until late afternoon, so we were able to skip lunch.

being said that, we still HAVE TO try the local delicacies!

coincidentally, just before we went out to have late lunch/early dinner on the second day, there's this fellow Malaysian next to our room was kind enough to introduce us to a restaurant not far from our hotel. According to him, the price was reasonable & the food was quite delicious.

introducing.. The Daun restaurant, a kind of newly operated (2 months at the time), multi-storey restaurant, own by a Malay Singaporean.

we had white rice with fried flower with beef, kerabu taugeh, siakap tiga rasa & seafood tomyam, while kaklong had Pho (Vietnamese Beef Noodle) which is one of the must try food in Saigon.

and a cup of hot Vietnamese coffee to finish off the dinner

the food was indeed delicious! so delicious that we made another visit to the restaurant the next day, before going back to KL!

this time around, I had the Bun Bo (Vietnamese Spicy Beef Noodle), mee goreng mamak for papa & adik, mama had nasi goreng pattaya, & kaklong ordered a pasta dish. oh, and we ordered the  fried flower with beef again! ratah gitu je pon sodap :)

so, for those going to Saigon, now you have another option for Halal food. I highly recommend it! it is not far from Cho Ben Thanh (about 10 mins walk). here's the address:
305, Ly Tu Trong Street, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Satu yang saya perasan, locals here love to eat Baguette/french bread. we saw hawkers selling it everywhere we went to! even at the hotel, they serve it for breakfast. tho, I'm not really sure how they eat it :D but I had my baguette with butter, pb & jams ;)

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ingat tak, I've mentioned about Trung Nguyen Coffee?

It is quite famous among my colleagues, most of the time they'll bought it for souvenir. I've tried this many times & I like it very much! apparently, it is the no.1 coffee in Vietnam.

but most importantly, it is certified Halal :)

you can actually find it in many places, especially in Ben Thanh market. jangan tak tau, kedai kain pun ada jual ni! it is THAT famous! but fyi, here in this shop you'll have more selection & you can have the coffee freshly ground for you!

the cuppuchino is to die for :x very creamy, & not too sweet. bau dia, semerbak! oh, tak boleh jadi ni.. dah terbayang-bayang kesedapannya! tak pe, petang ni jugak saya bancuh. sekarang tak bleh la, nak pegi lunch :D byee..