Why not cooking on Sunday? Cos Keelyn attended a Malay Wedding!

This is the first sunday which I missed my sunday cooking.... Cos I had to attend a colleague's wedding at Johor Bahru.. Quite far hor, luckily other helpful colleagues arranged transportation for me, so lucky of me. Actually was hestiating about going to JB, cos recent news were not positive, however went in the end, cos my that colleague treated me very good and there is company of other colleagues.

It's the first time that I attended a Malay wedding (minus the one time I went with my mother when I'm a kid!). My impression of malay wedding is always buffet style, but to my surprise, it's not!

See the elaborated table setting and the nice glass use. My colleague really took good care of us, treating us like VIPs. There are also other fellow colleagues from japan and malaysia as well! I'm the only person who doesn't know how to speak Japanese.... I mean real fluent japanese *sob*

Much to my surprise, Japanese do haf "ang bao" like we do. However, their's are not red in colour, but look very nice indeed. I'm stunned for a few seconds when one of them took a real stack of nice packets out, So pretty that I think I wont want to unwrap them if they were given to me.

There is also a bit of dance performance, I noticed a difference between chinese and malay style... In chinese style, the couple moves around the whole hall to take pixs. However, malay style, guest would go up on stage to take with the couple. Quite nice actually, cos the background certainly looks better, however more time consuming.

That's me taking a self pix... Just wore a simple black casual dress that night.

That's the feast of the night, see the table is specially reserved for us! The food is very Very nice, compared to singapore's. Dunno the reason is we're hungry but it taste really nice! I had two plates of nasi (rice). :X

On top of the normal gift (had fruit cake) like normal weddings, we were also given bunga telur. Very nice & pretty decorated eggs. I didn't really know the meaning but found the meaning on google as follows:

bunga telur,("bunga" is "flower" and "telur is "egg" –i.e. fully boiled chicken egg wrapped decoratively) which is the traditional Malay gift to guests who come to weddings. The bunga telur is a symbol of fertility and it is hoped that by giving out the bunga telur the married couple would be blessed with many children.

So my dear just married friend. You must がんばってよ！