My routine every Hari Raya Puasa celebration is to get up very early and cook. I would have prepared most of them the day or night before...normally going to bed late. The boys and other family members like my sisters, sisters-in-law would be there helping. It's more fun like that but I have also done the preparation all by myself which can be exhausting but exciting.
The boys will then go to the mosque to perform the aidilfitri prayer with their new baju melayu. I always feel proud of them and proud of myself to have wonderful kids. Well... sometimes they don't get along among themselves and me.
When the kids come back from the mosque, the open house starts. My brothers and sisters with their families, relatives and friends arrive. During hari raya everyone is welcome as long as you inform just to make sure someone is home. And then they will have to make do with whatever food is available.
For me this is a special day for family gathering. This is also the day when everybody shook hands with greetings and asking for forgiveness of whatever wrong doings they had done. So it's kind of start fresh.. forgive and forget the past.
And then the eating start. Lots of food to choose...satay, rendang, curry, soto, cookies/biscuits/shortbread of different sorts, cakes, ketupat, kulupis and more. My favourites are satay, rendang, kulupis, makmur and the rainbow cake... yum yum
All of us then visit my brother's house... more food, my aunty's house...more food. The visiting of friends then continue....
Selamat Hari Raya everyone. Maaf Zahir Batin.
1 comment:
Yum, love the ayam masak merah (chicken cooked in red)...
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