raya lunch – nasi briyani

yesterday, first day of hari raya, went to somebody’s house for nasi briyani and kueh-kueh!

actually i don’t know the person. er… then how on earth can i go to his house? well, it’s like this. this man is the boss of the small food stalls complex which is just right beside our flat. he knows my neighbour (non malay) very well since my neighbour is sort of like the representative of our residents association here. he asked my neighbour to invite several of her own friends (non malays) who stays at the same place (flat) with her for the raya lunch, so my neighbour invited my mother, sister and me. (she also invited about 10 other persons).

we seemed to be the first ‘set’ of people to arrive. we were served nasi briyani with a piece of chicken (1st pic). then it was self service with the vege kuah and the cucumber/pineapple dish. (2nd pic). since it was self service with the kuah, put in lots of kuah because that’s how i usually like to eat my rice with curry as kuah.. what they call ‘banjir’! (flood) the nasi briyani was delicious!

after the lunch, for dessert we took some of the kueh-kueh we saw on the table! (3rd pic). er… they were cookies actually, many different types. we were the first one to enjoy them as we were sitting in front of the tray. should have taken the photo before we ‘wallop up’ some of the cookies as they look so lovely with the colours and arrangement. this photo here i took after many people have ‘wallopped’ the cookies!

well i’m glad that at least this year, i attended a ‘home’ i.e. a family raya gathering instead of open house of VIP. as for tomorrow, can’t attend any raya gathering as will be attending the college general (major seminary for priests) bicentennial mass. 200 years! it’s going to be a big event which i’m not going to miss. oh, then the saturday (or was it sunday?) open house by our PM, can’t attend either as i have something on during this weekend… which i’m going to blog about on saturday wee morning (my usual blogigng time).