HARI RAYA FOOD IN MALAYSIA

MALAY RAYA IN MALAYSIA

Street decoration during Hari Raya

The end of Ramadan, Hari Raya, signals the end of fasting and the beginning of Eid and Muslim New Year celebrations. In Malaysia, where Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Muslims coexist peacefully, there are four New Years — Indian, Chinese, Western and Islamic. All are celebrated with open houses to which everyone is invited.
And a lot of place start to have Ramadan food store market.

Hari Raya Ramadan, food store street market

Hari Raya Ramadan, food store street market

WHEN IS HARI RAYA?

The 2016 Ramadan dates are June 6 or 7 to July 5 or 6, depending on the country's location. Ramadan begins with the waning of the moon at the end of the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, and continues for the full cycle of the moon until religious leaders sight the new crescent moon of the 10th month, Syawal.

During this 30-day period, Muslims fast, abstaining from all food, drinks. Restaurants are still open, however, for tourists and Malaysia's non-Muslim inhabitants.

BUKA PUASA

Buka Puasa, They start at sunset (about 7 p.m.) and continue to about 10:30 at night. 
Some of them will go back breaking fast with their family, some will go out with their friends as a gathering, or they will have a company  "Buka Puasa Dinner Gathering" at a hotel or own company buffet.

Family gathering buka puasa

Company gathering buka puasa

Mostly, Malays will break their fast by eating dates. They traditionally break their fast with sweets as well, because the sugar also helps them regain their strength quickly.

Dates, buka puasa starter

After that they will eat the main course.

Chicken Curry

Asam Pedas Ikan

Malay Fried Rice

Goat Soup

HARI RAYA 'BALIK KAMPUNG'

Traditionally, Malays will go back to their home town to visit their parents and/or grandparents. Normally during Hari Raya, Malays will have a open house to welcome their friends and family to visit.

When going in to one of the Malay house, the house owner will greet you with "Selamat Hari Raya," and immediately makes you feel at home. They will sit on the floor with the carpet than together having the biscuit or some chi like dodol (coconut milk and palm sugar sweets), tiny shortbread cookies and sponge cakes from plates arranged on tablecloths on the carpet.

Open house party

And also will have variety type of Kuih, here are the traditional Malay kuih.

For some modern malay house they will also prepare cake for the visitors.

They will hand you a silver teapot, which contains water for hand washing. Once one of my Malay friend laughs and told me, that a visitor once poured the water into a glass for drinking, and that is not how it works.

Teapot for washing hands

THE MAIN DINNER

hard raya dinner with family

Around 7pm, all the family members will sit on the dining area. Some Malays will make the Bamboo rice by their own. They use a machete, and cracks open tubes of bamboo that has been simmering in a pot, and removes a banana leaf-wrapped cylinder of lemang — glutinous rice steamed with coconut milk. They eat the rice, along with dry beef or chicken rendang and tapai (sweet fermented rice) that tastes like rice pudding.
The other main course will have:

Lemang(bamboo rice) with dry beef rendang

Ketupat with satay and peanut source

Gulai, chicken curry

And normally drink syrup bandung, etc...

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