Peng Hwa Food Court Pudu KL

Peng Hwa Food Court is next to Pudu Market. Its open 24/7.

Often it's packed - must hold in region of 2,000 people.

Above - Mee Goreng (fried noodles) being prepared

Today I had this meal - Bak-kut-teh - a well known chinese-malyasian dish. Its a kinda pork-stew - using a herbal mix with a unique smell (they say it has aphrodisiac properties -don't they
say that about all chinese herbal stuff ?). Literally the name of the dish means 'pork rib tea' as the pork simmers for hours in this herbal broth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_kut_teh

Today's Bak-Kut-Teh was OK (with rice 9.50 Ringit) - though I have to confess I prefer cooking my own back home using chicken. I had to try the original in KL again for comparison.

This area outside Peng Hwa food hall would be cleared of stalls (by bulldozers) in a few days time (no doubt they will return?).

Spiderman in KL !!!

I bought some art material today just to 'mess about'. Can't believe the material is so cheap. Ink/Brushes/paper/watercolour all came to about 2 quid (back home you're talking more in region of 20 quid for that). I aint drawn anything for years and years (and you can tell).....just an experiment...I need some practise before I can flog my work in local market here !!!

Kuala Lumpur December 2007

Watch bought at Pudu Market - 60 Ringit (about 8.50 Pounds)

View from my Hotel Room

aidil Adha - KL December 20 2007

I came across this group of Bangladeshi's in the process of carving up their 'korban' for today's Eid Al Adha (or aidil Adha as they call it here). They didnt mind me taking photos.

They had slaughtered two cows about 1 hour before I arrived - one apparently was for 'korban' (ie sacrifice) while , as far as I understood, the other one was to be divided simply on a commercial basis. The larger of the cows cost 2,800 Ringit (400 quid) and the smaller one (for Korban) 2,600 Ringit.

They use all parts of the animal - apart from blood - which according to Halal tradition is released from artery in neck with a sharp knife and allowed to flow into drain.

I noticed them emptying stomach contents so that they could cut the stomach (tripe) into pieces. Normally in the UK we only see 'bleached' tripe in butchers. I have never seen it being removed from the animal before. The stomach coating is actually green obviously due to colour of the grass which the animal would normaly eat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Adha