Aidiladha di perantauan

The title seems sad, isn't it? But it ain't so actually. We were glad to be invited by the Personal Assistant of the Germany representative of the "Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam", Pn. Suharti Shuib to her house in Sulzbach, Hessen on Eid day. It was quite an experience seeing her 2500-euro-a-month house, compared to ours. Her house is 4-storey including "keller" and somehow, it felt nice even though there were so many stairs; 'Ainaa kept on climbing up and down until a point that I let her do it on her own (naughty mummy eh!). The food was amazing, we had sate (yeay.. my favourite food finally arrived!!), and nasi beriyani (along with "daging masak mamak"), laksa, marble cake..(uhh I couldn't count, there were so many!).

THE food!

Kak Ati (as I called her, even though she said, there'd been a long time since she heard people calling her by that name!) is a very astounding chef (hehe! up sket..) keeping in mind that she hadn't cook much in Malaysia. Well, at least she amazed me! I have not achieved that yet apparently, and I do have to work harder, phewww!!

Ainaa with Kak Ati's youngest girl, Hannan

I miss satay kajang!!

The making of sate: I didn't joint, so I held the honor of taking pictures from Rusdy

Abg Ijat with the grill gadget

Sate lovers indeed!

The men behind the scenes! Muehehehehe..

The generous Kak Ati and Abg Ijat

Then yesterday,we invited friends to come over for a little gathering. Ulla Maharani (Indonesian full time 'Deutsch as a foreign language' student) brought along her friend Suleyman (German born Turk), Issofa (Camerooon) and Majid (Pakistan). We cooked roti naan with dhal for Majid because he's been craving that so much, and mee bandung. Dilla had generously made "Agar-agar santan" in the morning even though she was sick and I did the Japanese souffle cake. Huh, now comes the story. I made the cake in a 28-cm pan when the recipe says 17cm. The result was, too thin even to serve. So, I cut it into small cubes then put it in a bowl. In short, it didn't come out the way it should have been. Pity me! It was soooo difficult to make!

Anyway, enough with all my yankees, have fun with the pictures

From left: Suleyman, MNR, Issofa and NZ

Busy eating.. thankfully the dishes turned out nice!

Mee kuning (from spaghetti with "kunyit"), roti naan, 2-min coch muffin, dhal and sardines

Agar-agar santan and mee bandung's gravy