Ice Cold, Colourful Drinks at The Bazaar Ramadhan

One of the stalls that sells bright coloured cold drinks at the Bazzaar Ramadhan, on the right is the Blue Lemon.

These are some photos of the many types of drinks sold at the Bazaar Ramadhan near my house.

Most of them are in vibrant colours; I am sure that the sellers use lots and lots of colourings to make the drinks more appealing.

Even my eldest sister was and is still tempted to buy them all 🙂

We almost never buy those drinks before but that day my dad decided to surprise my big sister by buying her some of the bright coloured drinks.

So we bought four types of drinks, lemon, honey dew, sugar cane and dragon fruit juice that look much better than they taste.

The tastiest was the creepy looking Blue Lemon drink.

Despite it’s tastiness, it has too much blue colouring that made my mouth blue for a few days.

The honey dew drink was in bright green that it looked rather scary; and the worst part was that it did not even taste like honey dew.

My big sister turned the left over honey dew drink into ice lollies which she really enjoyed.

Colourful cold drinks on a hot afternoon in a fasting month…

Tasty looking fruit juice to temp the customers.

Iced blended coffee that comes in various flavours.

More tempting cold drinks…

More ‘fruit flavoured’ drinks…

More drinks to choose from…

Old Town White Coffee Halal Certification And YB Ngeh Koo Ham

Old Town White Coffee which does not have the JAKIM’s halal certification was said by some people as partly owned by a DAP leader.

Ardmand Azha PJU tweeted to YB Ngeh Koo Ham asking him, “why ur white coffee without halal certification”.

Ardmand Azha PJ was referring to the restaurants or kopitiams named Old Town White Coffee.

YB Ngeh replied in Bahasa Malaysia which in English means,“First time I have heard that drinking coffee must have the halal label. Human should not add burdening (troubling) requirements. God gives freedom.”

Next he went on to say that, “God does not say that”, when Ardmand Azha PJ explained that for the Muslims, the Halal certification is a must especially because the Old Town White Coffee restaurants also serve all kinds of food. 

What YB Ngeh tweeted is wrong and he should not interfere with other people’s religion.

Muslims must only eat and drink food that is not only halal but ‘toyibbah’ or clean and does not contained anything that is bad for our health like germs or dangerous chemicals.

In Malaysia, JAKIM is the department that awards the halal certification after making sure that the food or food outlet is halal and follow the proper criteria  of halal and toyibbah, please click here.

Why does YB Ngeh like to humiliate, insult and sort of making fun of Islam when he does not know the Islamic rules?

And why must he twisted facts about Islam and made it looked like he knows better about Islam than a Muslim?

And this is not the first time he insulted the Muslims and Islam, please click here.

My next question is, what is PAS’s comment about this issue?

Will PAS dare to tell its ally, DAP to tell YB Ngeh to stop insulting Islam and the Muslims?

PAS said that non- Muslim DAP  leaders really understand and respect Islam more than the UMNO leaders who are Muslims.

What will PKR leaders say about this?

Pakatan Rakyat leaders claim that they are fighting for human rights, so how about the Rights of the Muslims when PR’s leader insulted us?

To Malaysian Muslims, please look for the JAKIM’s Halal Logo before buying packed food and please do not eat at kopitiams or coffee house without the logo.

Delicious Strawberry Yoghurt Drink Recipe-With Pictures

Last week my mother bought lots of sweet and juicy ripe strawberries.

She made our favourite strawberry yoghurt drink.

The drink was so tasty.

It is a very healthy drink because the strawberries  are rich in vitamin C, fiber, antioxidant and lots of minerals.

Yoghurt has lots of good bacteria called probiotic, minerals and vitamins.

Honey is also a very healthy food.

So when we mix all of them together, they’ll become a very healthy and tasty drink 🙂

Below is the strawberry yoghurt drink recipe.

We need:

• Ripe strawberries.

Yummy and sweet red strawberries.

• Natural yoghurt.

Delicious, white  natural yoghurt.

• Some honey.

How to make the tasty drink:

• Cut the strawberries and put the strawberries and yoghurt in a blender.

Put the yummy, red, strawberries and delicious, white natural yoghurt in a blender.

• Add the sweet, golden honey.

Add some sweet, golden honey.

• Add some water or some milk or both.

• Blend them until you’ll get a beautiful pink  juice.

Blend them and this is the result.

• Serve the drink and enjoy it 🙂

By the way, mom says that you may add some sugar or a pinch of salt to the drink but too much sugar is bad for us.

Pour the yummy drink into a mug or glass and enjoy it...

I think that strawberry yoghurt drink  looks as good as its taste.

It will be a nice drink during a hot day as it is in Kuala Lumpur now

A Bamboo Stick? No, It Is Sugar Cane!

Last week Uncle Dollah gave us a long stick and my sister Kafah and I thought that it was a bamboo stick.

Then I found out that it was not a bamboo stick but it was a sugar cane!

The sugar cane given by Uncle Dollah.

I have never seen a sugar cane before.

The sugar cane was about three and a half feet long.

I used a ruler to measure the sugar cane.

It was divided into nine sections and there were hard nodes in between the sections.

We use sugar cane to make sugar.

We can also make sugar cane juice or eat it raw.

This is how to eat raw sugar cane:

1. You can use your teeth to peel out the hard skin and bite into the inner part and chew it. 

   

   You can use your teeth to peel out the hard skin.

    

   …or…

   1. First use a big knife to cut the sugar cane stalk into sections. Your mother has to do all these for you 🙂 

      

      Use a big knife to peel out the hard skin.

       

   2. Then peel out the hard skin and wash them.

   3. Then cut the sugar cane into small pieces. 

      

      A plate of sugar cane pieces ready to be eaten.

       

   4. Put the sugar cane pieces into a plate.

   5. Then we eat it 🙂 We chew the sugar cane pieces for the juice and throw away the husk in a rubbish bin. 

      

      I'm eating the sugar cane.

       

It was really fun to eat raw sugar cane and the juice tasted so sweet.

Thank you Uncle Dollah; and I hope that maybe Uncle Dollah can give me more sugar cane ….

How To Make Roselle Juice

This is how we make our yummy roselle juice from my own roselle plants:

• First we need to plant the roselle from roselle seeds.
  

  

  Small roselle plant

• Then we need to wait for a few months until it grow bigger and bigger.

• After a few month, the roselle starts to have flowers.

• Later they become fruits.

  

  My roselle plant with lots of fruit

• Pluck the ripe fruits.

  

  Roselle fruits from one of my roselle plants

• Wash them until clean.

• Let them dry.

  

  Washed roselle fruits

• Cut them into small pieces.

• Put them in a pot.

• Add water and sugar.

  

  Boil the roselle pieces

• Boil them.

• Blend the roselle pieces.

I love roselle juice very much.

Roselle juice-looks yummy and very healthy too

It is better to make our own roselle juice because some people add artificial colouring, artificial flavouring and preservatives to the juice that they sell in supermarkets.

Homemade roselle juice from my own plants is very tasty and rich in vitamin C.

It is a healthy drink.

So I have to plant more roselle 🙂

Planting our own fruits and vegetables is good.

Roselle Picking

Now I have three roselle plants.

They are very big and healthy.

I planted them from Rosie’s seeds.

Rosie was my old roselle plant.

It died a long time ago.

My roselle plants have a lot of fruits.

Today I picked 8 fruits from my roselle plant.

The ripe fruits are maroon in colour.

My roselle plants with lots of fruits and flowers

Roselle tastes very, very, very, very, very, very, very sour.

Before they become fruits they were flowers.

The flowers are big, pink and beautiful.

The roselle flower looks like hibiscus.

But hibiscus has a long style in the middle of the flower.

After the flowers fall, the fruits grow.

We can make roselle juice using the fruits.

Roselle juice is very tasty.

It is also a healthy drink.

It is rich in vitamin C and has a natural red colour.

Roselle picking is fun 🙂

And I love apple picking too.

Strawberry

Strawberry is a fruit.

It has a lot of tiny seeds.

Ripe strawberries are red.

Strawberry is very nutritious.

It has antioxidant and Vitamin C.

Some strawberries are big but some are small .

I like to eat the sweet and juicy strawberries.

Anyway some strawberries are sour.

We can eat fresh strawberry and also made it into yummy juice.

We can also make strawberry jam, ice-cream and lots of other tasty things to eat.

Please click here for a delicious strawberry yoghurt drink recipe.

Strawberry grows in cool places.

In Malaysia , strawberry grows in Cameron Highland , Pahang.

Cameron Highland a is cool place in the mountains of the Titiwangsa Range.

Last time I had a strawberry plant named Strawy but it died.

There is a place named Strawberry in Arizona, U.S.A.

Anyway strawberry cannot grows there  because it is too hot.

My Roselle Plant

I have a Roselle plant.

Roselle is a type of Hibiscus.

I planted it a few months ago.

My Roselle plant’s name is Rosie.

Now Rosie is 0 year old but Rosie is already tall.

Rosie already has two flowers and two fruits.

Roselle’s petals can be eaten.

Rosie’s petals taste very, very, very sour.

• We can make Roselle juice.

Hibiscus, specifically Roselle, has been used in folk medicine as a diuretic, mild laxative, and treatment for cardiac and nerve diseases and cancer.

Roselle are rich in Vitamin C.

I love to eat Roselle’s petals.

Roselle

I love Roselle drink.

The colour of the Roselle drink is red.

Roselle drink is a healthy drink because it is made from flower.

It has no artificial colouring or flavouring.

It is sweet and sour and very tasty.

It has lots of vitamin C.

Yesterday I went to Uncle Najib’s house to take my father’s auntie for lunch.

My mother showed me some Roselle plants at the house.

There are lots of Roselle flowers too.

The flowers are red like the colour of Roselle drink.

I ate some Roselle catyces.

They are sour and tasty like Roselle drink.

My mother said to make Roselle drink, we cook the flowers with some water and sugar.

I better tell my father to plant Roselle.

By the way I have some celery plants in our garden.

Ribena

Ribena is a drink.

It is made from black currant.

Ribena has lots of vitamin C.

Ribena is a healthy drink.

It has no articial colouring.

The red colour comes only from the black currant.

I drink Ribena everyday.

I like to drink Ribena because it is very tasty.

There is another healthy drink named Roselle which tasted like Ribena.

We always make our own Roselle juice at home.