Advantage of Understanding Other Languages

Do you ever came out from elevator smiling and laughing to yrself? Its very funny when we approach some funny incidents inside the elevator and keep it in yr tummy coz u have to stop yrself from laughing in order to respect other passengers and to cover the related persons from shame. And what if u have to cover your anger when u heard somebody's talking stink about u in different language inside the elevator?

Yes, I did face these 2 situations. The funny and the anger. The last time, in my university. This one Ir***** cum my ex-classmate girl said bad about me with one Ir**** boy in persian language. It was only 4 level to go down, I have to control my mouth and ting! level 1...i fight the words back. haha :DD very satisfied u know. You see, 1st advantage, U can fight back and give shame back to and laugh back to her!!

The second situation i faced it frequently. When I enter elevator with other persons that speak other language than me who i can understand the language (what language else i can understand, Persian). They will speak to themselves not about me and sometimes about me but funny like this:

A: Last night i went to B house and suddenly she fart silently.

B: Ok..I will say later.

A: Why? She can understand? (pointing mouth to me)

B: Urm..urm..

(Conversation has been changed from real)

Dont you think this is funny?? Haha. Well, u see, the advantage that i think are cool to share. Many others. So, lets learn other languages especially when u have to involve yrself with people from other races speaking different languages.

Ok..thats all..i need to change and off to changi to fetch somebody from Iran. Will tell u what souvenir they will give! (^o,^). TA!

Kashk Bademjan

I will share my first persian dish. Kashk -e- Badamjan. Kashk is persian sour cream i can say, while bademjan is eggplant. This dish can be served as an appetizer with naan (bread) and fresh sabzi (vegetables). But for me it is heavy enough to eat as a main course. 

My experience with this dish -

I first ate this at Iranian restaurant in Langkawi. First taste, oh! what is this? I couldn't swallow, You know, my malay tongue always eat spicy, when it comes to sour + eggplant, euwww. Later my bff gave me a bottle of kashk from Iran and i just leave it on shelve until one day i asked him, "what u want me to do with the kashk? Kashk-e-bademjan doros kon (cook kashk-e-bademjan)". Ok i take the challenge. After several videos on youtube and recipe books, i cooked it and miracle! he said khoshmazas (delicious). Since then i cooked it at least 1 time in 2 weeks, depends on the kashk stock because it is hard to find it in my area. I managed to accept the taste. You want to know how? shhh...i put more onions in it. So that it wont taste too sour or too bademjan. haha.

Ok, now i share you the recipe:

Ingredients:

Bademjan (Eggplant)

Kashk (Can be found at persian mart)

Piaz (Onion)

Zardchubeh (Turmeric powder)

Felfel siyah (Black pepper)

Namak (Salt)

Roghan (Oil)

Nane (Dried Mint)

Aab (Water)

Methods:

1. Peel and fry the eggplants until golden brown. Put aside. I found out this way tastier rather than baked the eggplant in oven. But your dish will turn out oily. Normally when the dish is ready, i will spoon out the excess oil.

2. Saute onion until golden brown. Take out half of it for garnish. Put the eggplant on top of the onion, sprinkle with turmeric, black pepper and salt.

3. Pour in water until cover the eggplant, stir once, close lid, leave for 20 minutes until all the ingredients mix well. Then put in some kashk.

4. In other pan, put some oil and fry the dried mint until the aroma arise. Just for seconds.

5. Put in the eggplant mixture in a bowl or plate, decorate with kashk, dried mint and fried onion. Ready to be served with fresh vegetables and flat bread.

Khoda hafez!!

Malay meet Persian

Why Malay? Because I am Malay live in Malaysia my colorful country.

Why Persian? Because for the past 3 years I encounter with so many Persian 'things' in my life. I am currently working with one Iranian company in Malaysia and my bff is an Iranian. The more i learn about Persian culture and history, the more i want to know. 

I believe for Malaysians, all of us learn about Persian civilization in our History subject in secondary school. Only that we didnt being exposed much to 'the Persians' like we being exposed by 'the Arabs'. I want to warn you, never say Iranian = Arab. If not, they will get angry with u.(i've experienced that!)

In Malaysia, there are so many Iranians. Most of them are students and the rest having businesses here. You go to Bukit Bintang during their Nowruz (Persian New Year), Ampang, Cyberjaya, these are some hot spots for Iranian in Malaysia. Small communities are at Skudai JB and Penang. But as far as i know, Iranian are everywhere in this world. If you go to the smallest city in world also, i bet you, you will find at least 1 Iranian there! Really! There are some reasons for this. Maybe I will blog later about it.

Ok guys, there are so many more i want to share. But for now i will stop here. Here my first photo in chilliandsaffron, me standing in front of Azadi Square in Tehran. Yes, I went to Iran. I will share my beautiful experiences later. BYE!

Salam,Hai, Hello

Ok..after months of stranger blogwalking, i decided to create this blog. This will be the place for me to share my experience especially in culture and foods. Sorry, no personal story will be published. I hope you guys will enjoy reading!!
"Emruz avval rooz in blog baz kardam, omidvaram shoma khoshhal bash ke blog man mikhuni". (please forgive my broken farsi through the journey as i never attend any formal persian language class. you are open to correct me)