If you're here via Culinate, welcome. We hope you'll have a look around and tell us what you think. For us, Ramadan began this year with a bag of bubur lumbuk(savory spiced rice porridge). On the first weekend of the Holy Month we headed to Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur's Malay 'village', in search of Ramadan bazaar excitement. We parked and walked .... and walked. We were lost in Kampung Baru's maze of streets and alleys. It began to mist. And then to rain. We had no umbrella. It was getting dark, too dark to get any photos. A wasted Sunday evening. A car slowly pulled up beside us, and stopped. From the window emerged a ... read more

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