3 posts tagged “food”

27th of March was the last day of my school visit. Teaching in English school has been much different than in Malaysia. I have experienced lots of difficulties trying to understand their culture, yet at the same time I began to like it very much. Like people said, experience is always the best teacher. The students here are very friendly, though they are very critical at times and very expressive. I'm gonna miss them a lot.

As a token of our appreciation, we did some stuff for the children. What I did was a bookmark by scanning a few of my paintings and stick them onto watercolour papers. I also did some language translation sheet just in case they want to learn Bahasa Melayu (in which I think they don't) Meanwhile, my friend worked on the colourful envelopes and pencils. We put everything together inside the envelope. It took us a whole night to do that. I also made a story book, Jentayu, which is based on one of the Malaysian legends. Well, I don't know if they could understand the story. Hopefully they do. I did that as I saw them doing the same storybook project for a few weeks.

While we were working on those stuff, we also tried to cook some Malaysian food for the kids. My friend fried some 'keropok', something like fish crackers. Meanwhile, I made some 'Begedil', one of the traditional Malaysian

kuihs made of potatoes. You can hardly find the recipe on the. internet, so I'll give one later. The funny thing about the food was that the teachers ate much more than the students! Well, I guess the students here are very much picky about food. And they can't even stand the smell of the food!

We even did a little presentation on Malaysia. Talk to them a little bit about the history of Malaysia, the cities, the jungle, the spiders, races, food, flowers and the festivals. They were surprised to hear that we had so many festivals that we had so many holidays.

I'm hoping that one of the students would someday come to Malaysia and embrace its beauty. It has a lot of things that Britain does not offer. Since then I've started to love my country even more.
 

What's your favorite thing to drink when it's cold outside?

A nice hot tea and a cup of hot chocolate or the traditional milo would be nice for me. Drinking milo instead of hot chocolate is quite common for Malaysians since that you can get it cheap in supermarkets.

Just went for cooking lesson today. Revised the stuff that I had not been doing for quite a long time -baking. I got all the procedures messed up.

Actually the whole family had a cooking day in the kitchen. We did all the mess, and mom did all the rest. Well, that's what life supposed to be, I guess. Helping each other is a good thing, as long as we don't make each other angry. It's a good thing that mom came to save the day, or there wouldn't be lunch for the rest of the afternoon. We did all these so that we could bring the food along to my brother's school in Kajang, and had lunch with him. Al the effort was not fruitless, since that all end products were completely satisfying.

This is what my big brother did. This is a kind of 'begedil' which he made from the guidance on the internet. 'Begedil' is

something like a mashed potato, shaped and dipped into egg mixture before being fried. Usually it has a fixed shaped, which looked like an egg. But since that he made it look like sushi, he called it 'bergedil', an entirely new brand of 'begedil'.

Mine is somewhat simple and recognizable. I made a simple cake with chocolate toppings. Inspired by the "indulgence chocolate" promoted on the Domino's flyers, I thought of making one for myself. The cake recipe was taken from my mom, and I did the topping since that I had made it once for my friend. It is actually a simple recipe but since that I had not been used to baking for quite some time, I just couldn't get things right. Hopefully I could make a better one next time.

All in all, we enjoyed eating together under the shade. Having a picnic together with the family outside the school canteen was fun.