So..... yes, I just got back from the festival. Was it a festival? It felt like one to me. Although it only reminded me of the typical China Town in Singapore at night time.
BTW, I took mom out to the festival. I was actually the one more enthusiastic about the event. But, I did try to cheer her up in the festival by buying her some supposedly localized Chinese snacks (I think).
Here's the two snacks that we got.
Chicken tofu fritters. Spicy!
Got the fritters from Boli Boli. It highligted the possible fact that it was a branch from Singapore. Errrrr... maybe true, maybe not. Only Singaporeans should judge.
Second snack was more of a dessert. It was just a... hmmm... what would you call a sweet tasting porridge like snack that's slimy and mixed with crushed Taiwanese roast peanuts and some cooked gel acting like flour? God! What a messy description! Possibly the worst written description since Shakespeare!Nothing else is so interesting to talk about. I'm gonna show you several more photos taken during the fest. I did enjoy it, though. I do miss Singapore for the Chinese ambiance... if that makes sense to you, guys? I mean I enjoyed having my dinner at Chinese food stalls and talking with the staff. I also enjoyed trying to blend in(!) by saying some Chinese words like sie sie... or, ni hao ma or just ni hao. Hahaha fun times!
Me at the cool dragon-y entrance!
The whole entrance... without me(!) :p
I know, right. What a cutie!... the dragon is.
Some red stage.
In case you have never seen humans before.
Here are some more humansBTW, The event ends tomorrow night. Since the location is very close to the frequently busy road of Malioboro, finding a parking spot was quite struggling as everywhere was quite full of other parked vehicles of visitors of both Malioboro and the festival.
Good nighty!
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Man-oh-man, I loooooooove the curtains!!!! D'you know how much I wud've paid for those up here????? Soooo.....I have to order those too in Indonesia...
ReplyDeleteOoooh...and like the pictures too....somehow, we never went to events like that...I guess it's time to make things right, eh...
DeleteOh, yea, I was surprised when you told me the estimate price for curtains like those over there in Suriname!
DeleteWell, make sure you come back here during festival seasons! :p :p
Hey, but where's the photo of you jumping joyfully in front of the cute dragon? :D
ReplyDeleteI know! I thought about it! But, mom is not a good photo taker at all. If I was with my niece, we would make 'the' photos :)
Delete"cap goh meh" (or whatever you spelt it) actually means the 15th Night in hokkien (one of the major chinese dialects), it's one festive to us as it marks the end of the chinese new year (yeah, we spent 15 days celebrating!!)..
ReplyDeleteSK,
DeleteYou guys celebrate for 15 days only. We celebrate Raya for 1 month! Lagi best! LOL
Wait... I don't quite get it. The festival marks the end of the new year when the CNY celebration is celebrated merely 2 weeks in prior to the festival? I'll Wiki it :p hehe
DeleteLina, you mean the Ramadhan month? Hehe. Well as much as sometimes it can be very struggling to have to not eat and drink, it certainly can feel like a celebration in some way :)
chinese new year lasts for 15 days, but the first two days are usually celebrated and made into public hols, and in chinese traditions (not sure elsewhere but here in malaysia and i suppose singapore too), the first day is to visit the paternal grandparents' home while the second day is to visit the maternal. the rest of the week you can visit your friends and other family homes for the red packets (angpows)! haha :D
Deleteoh, what are those two snacks?? doesn't look familiar to me.. errr, the dessert or you called it sweet porridge is kind of common here, just by your description i can't figure out what it is, haha.. maybe already localised??
ReplyDeleteAhaha I knew what I ordered, though! I just can't recall it now ;))
DeleteIt was nice actually! I liked it quite much! :) If I saw it in the mall or somewhere else, I might actually buy one again
wow, that place is really crowded huh?? all came to have fun for the festival?? hehe.. so did you manage to make any new friends with your (limited) chinese?? :D
ReplyDeleteYes, they all came for the festival. We don't have a proper China Town so yea we got quite curious when very festive events like this one happen in town :)
DeleteI did sort of make friends with some of the Chinese staff... I mean we had a short talk every time I ordered my lemon chicken
Your description of the porridge-like dessert made me laugh a little. :D Was it good? Did you like it? It sounds like you had a good time at the festival. It was interesting to see your pictures.
ReplyDeleteOh, and your new curtains look really nice! :-)
It was good, Daisy! I liked it a lot. And, yes, it was a fun time to spend :)
DeleteThe curtains may not look so calming in the video but in real life they are! :)
Where's the orange throwing? Got any single lady numbers or not? ;)
ReplyDeleteOh! I didn't even know there is such tradition! Or, maybe they decided to "localize" the celebration by not having some of the original traditions
DeleteWoah.... very crowded... too many ppl....too little space...
ReplyDeleteHeheh yes, true!
Deletefrom the crowd, i wonder how many percent is from the tionghoa group hahaha!
ReplyDeleteit's great to see these celebrations being appreciated in indonesia now. cheers to diversity! :))
there were quite a lot of Chinese people actually :)
DeleteWe do celebrate Chinese holidays here! :D
Hey - slimy doesn't sound too promising for a treat! :-) I love Chinese decorations - so bright, colourful and happy.
ReplyDeleteWell it was kinda slimy :p
DeleteI like the color red when it comes to Chinese decorations! :)
i meant to hop over to chinatown but ended up being too filled with some home made yummies that a cousin made. So filled that I even failed to help out with washing the dishes (my task for the last 12 years of so). I just ended up sitting glued to my chair:P
ReplyDeletenot too sure what is the 2nd dessert that you mentioned. Was it something glutinous like?
Ahaha love the sentence you put in the brackets! ;))
DeleteStaying home is not always something that's not worth celebrating.
It was almost gel-y like...