Tuesday, July 19, 2005

For your information, J contributed the following piece (after some editing by yours truly):

After reading the "Kuih" In Camouflaged @ Jason Mumbles, J realised it has been a long time since she tasted any "Loh Mai Chi" and the crave for it is mouting. So J yahoo-ed me right away and begged me to bring Little Skywalker (what a cheap shot! using your son as an excuse) to pasar malam because he never went to one before.

Both J and I used to go to pasar malam every Monday and Thursday for dinner during when we were still a married couple. Since Little Skywalker’s appearance, my parents baby-sit him and we have dinner at home every evening unless there is a special event. Coincidently, my parents didn’t cook yesterday, and it became a perfect evening for a pasar malam outing.

When we arrived at the pasar malam, Little Skywalker was in the middle of his little car nap. J had to wake him up. He objected a little but soon his attention was distracted by the busy crowd. He was quite excited to see so many people and things around him and happily making soudns while pointing to things. I offered to carry him around so that J could go “hunt” for dinner.

We stopped by a biscuit stall to look for my favourite biscuit, which can only be found at pasar malam (stupid Jusco didn’t wanna stock up anymore). The hawker was kind enough to offer Little Skywalker some samples as soon as our dear son started pointing his little fingers around. We end up buying half a kilo of my favourite from him and will definitely come back for more for obvious reason.

While Little Skywalker’s is busy enjoying his biscuit and the pasar malam environment, we started to hunt for our dinner. We've bought lots of food:- cha kuih, fried chicken, asam laksa, popiah, sugar cane juice.. but we just couldn’t find any stalls selling the loh mai chi.

Giving up on the "loh mai chi", our last stop is the newspaper cum magazine’s stall where we got a copy of the latest Crayon SinChan #41 (Yes... we collects them). That is when I saw a tiny stall which is selling a variety of “kuih-muih”. On the stall there is a big bowl of crunched peanuts, rolls of dough and an empty tray with glutinous rice flour in. The girl is actually making “loh mai chi” on the spot while all the customers waiting in front of the stall. So finally J didn’t get what she wanted to eat because there are too many people waiting in line and the take-aways are getting heavier and so is Little Skywalker.

To pasar malam & "loh mai chi"…. We’ll be back…. And hopefully by then Little Skywalker will be able to walk by himself.

So long for now…

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