Festival of Nations..

Ok, I noe today is Merdeka, but then aiyo for the past 19 years I have never found it such a big thing, even when I had to sing tanggal 31 for 11 years of my life. However there will be a dinner tonight in Melbourne Uni and I shall be going to eat Malaysian buffet!!! Muahahha all the Malaysian food that I've missed so much. Melissa will be performing Bukan Cinta Biasa and if I'm lucky enough, I will get to record it and if Sim's lucky enough, he shall get to see it :P

Ok enough about the dinner, few days back there was this festival of nations thing being held in the university. It was blady crowded man as I muscled my way through just to get to Uncle Ong's nasi lemak stall and MOMU's kuih+teh tarik stall. The kuih was rather expensive but it taste great. Maybe I juz havent been eating kuih for such a long time that I felt it was so good.

Its quite interesting to see so many different stalls and it comes to show how many foreign students there are in Melb Uni. It seems like there is hardly any pure Australians. The stall next to Uncle Ong was selling Ramly Burger!!! LOL, by the looks of it they look like they came from Singapore, because the promoter didnt sound Indo at all.


I didnt take much pictures though. This was Uncle Ong's poster. Nasi Lemak, spring rolls, longan drink, wanton, konyaku jelly, hey wait a minute, lets take a closer view....


It says KONYAKUKU JELLY not NEGARAKUKU!!!! LOL....negaraku, negarakuku.....wahahaha.


The crowd behind me, waiting anxiously for their nasi lemak. No, I was not taking pictures of girls, I didnt even look where my camera was aiming, I juz held it up high and snapped a picture, and this was wat I got..You know why so many people waiting for nasi lemak...wait I tell u later...


See the spring rolls and wantons? See the fried chicken and cucmber and longan drink, and hard boiled eggs? See the konyakuKU jelly? Hey wait, where's the nasi lemak?? Relax, I tell u later..


The other shops, the one right in front is the French one, selling crepe's I think..As u can see it was packed...super packed.

Ok now for the nasi lemak. Uncle Ong was a natural talent at doing business. He used all the laws and tactics to attract customers. Bargaining power, he sold food that was getting cheaper and cheaper, and if u buy in huge amount he gives u BIG discount, or so he says..But he couldn't control his kitchen staff. His nasi lemak rice ran out and when people started to order he said 10 min his people are making the rice now!! So I said ok fine, I'll wait since I dont have anymore classes, 20 min later, I saw a girl putting coconut milk into the rice cooker which had water in it!!!! They havent even started cooking!!! Wtheck u Uncle Ong, cheat my feeling ar(Renald's well used line.. :P) So I demanded an answer from Uncle Ong, and he apologised. After a while he said 400 seconds more..ok fine, few minutes, 600 seconds later, they press the on button to start cooking the rice...swt..cheat my feeling 2nd time... He then lost a lot of business opportunities as many people left and Uncle Ong didn't want them to wait for so long so he told people to come again the next day. Forget it, I've waited that long, I'm getting my nasi lemak!!!

After 40 mins I finally got my nasi lemak, with 2 chicken for juz 5 bux, the poster said 6.50 with one chicken..hahaha, I was the "loyal" customer.

Now lets analyse the pros and cons of me waiting for 40 mins for my nasi lemak..

Cons:
1) Waited damn long,freaking hungry, could have got gastric man(ok I'm exaggerating, I noe)
2) Stand like an orang gila there,
3) Being pushed and squashed by the number of people there
4) Opportunity cost of 40 mins
5) Hearing samba songs which really irritated me

Pros:
1) The malaysian girl who was in charge of cooking the rice was damn pretty!!! (I wanted to take a picture of her but no chance la...wasted)

Yeap, I think it was worth waiting the 40 mins (and now u noe why I didn't mind standing in front of the shop for such a long time rite) :P

Talk about nasi lemak, I'm hungry now...ciaoz