When we heard the familiar ringing of the bell, we rushed out of our house. It was time for our ice-balls!. The ice-ball man, on his tricycle would get down and shave the ice, shape it into a ball and sweeten it with colourful syrup and we would have our fill of sucking on the balls to extract the sweetness. The method of shaving ice then was a piece of wood studded with nails to hold the ice-block firmly while scraping it over a sharp blade embedded in a thick block of wood. Although it was unhygienic, we never got sick from it. Life became much easier for the ice-ball makers when a machine was invented to make shaving ice easier.
The traditional ice shaver (photo from: goodmorningyesterday.blogspot.com)
The invention (photo from: goodmorningyesterday.blogspot.com)The ice-ball has since been replaced by the popular ice-kacang. The Ocean Seafood Restaurant recently set up an ice-kacang corner so that customers could enjoy it as a dessert. The ice-kacang can be had for RM 1.00. (No, there is no incentive of any sort from blogging on The Ocean Seafood Restaurent, if the thought crosses your mind. It so happens that it offers the cheapest beer in a comfortable restaurant setting!).
The ice-kacang corner
A waitress filling up the containers with the ingredients for ice-kacang
The ice-shaving machine which is operated electrically
Shaving the ice block
The shaved iceCustomers have a wide selection of things to put into their ice-kacang
Atap chee, which is the fruit from the nipah palm
cin cao
Corn cream
Cendol, the thin worm like pandan flavoured flour noodles
Groundnuts
Sweet kidney beans
Gula melaka or palm sugar
Green syrup
Red syrup
The ice-kacang topped with corn cream and evaporated milk
it looks delicious but i don't hav a ice shaver machine! so sad
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SHARING MESSAGES BY MAYANMAR GROUPS ABOUT YIP KUM FOOK AT SAMNAK SAMBODHI BUDDHIST TEMPLE, TAMAN DESA JAYA, KEPONG.....
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We are Myanmar group in Malaysia; we lived in Malaysia over decade and always went to one of SAMNAK SAMBODHI Buddhist temple in Taman Desa Jaya, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur and we were very sad and regretting with the committees of temple because they are using our monks in wrong conception of Buddhist teaching or Buddhist rules. We came to temple to help our monks and respected of our religion.
That temple is president of name: YIP KUM FOOK(lawyer), that our monks said and he is invited our monks from Myanmar to in charge of that temple but without pay anything to our monks, added he and his not respecting of our monks and sometime he ordered of his people to collected item such as paper, mineral water etc. without inform any words to our monks. In our religious believed we can’t take anything of holy place, if we done we are sin.
In pervious, our monk said the committees always asked money from him, when our monks gave RM20,000.00 in cash on 2001 to the committees, then committees keep silent, later committees make problem with our monk again and cancelled of our monk Visa permit to stayed in Malaysia, then our monk, Sadayaw Nandiya) go to Australia and our monk not come that temple at long time. “YIP KUM FOOK gave our monk notebook computer for to cover of that amount of money our monk said”
Many local people around temple said, now no more people come to this temple because committees is always make problem and we are heard from local people said: YIP KUM FOOK ordered of his people to put fire of Hindu temple at Taman Daya, Kepong because he needed that place to make his business about many years ago. “Everybody known what he done for Hindu temple at Taman Daya, Kepong”
Last time also he invited police to arrest the monks at holy place(temple) and locked the temple without afraid and shameful of people because he believed committee is big and has more authority, also his son always says to people: this temple is belonging of his father. “This temple donated from public, we are work hard for this temple”
This temple the committees always changed the monks, now they change the new monk to in charge of temple, this new monk also complaint the bad things of committees because committees also wait for donation box only, they without help anything to our monks. And committees controlled of our monks not to talk more or complaint more, our monks lived there as slaver and afraid of committees’ members.
In new building where remaining of Buddha statue marble; we have renovation of Buddha statue because that Buddha statue is put very low, we lift to highest the committees don’t like and unhappy. In our country, anyone be able to come temple to worship the Buddha but in Malaysia is different temple controlling by committees.
We hope everyone preserve of Buddhist teachings, and please safety of our monks, not see only money as this of temple. When we asked some of our people (Myanmar) and local people, the committees are very low of idea because is very narrow mind and without education of religions. And committees will not be disturbing of our monks, monks are like our father to take care of Buddhism and temple is like our place of resolving of our problem.
Recently, our monk (Sadayaw Ashin Indaka original from Madalay, Myanmar) has been staying in this temple also unhappy because the committees are not pay anything to him, he is working in hardly to advise people and we also unhappy and very sad when heard the bad news from our monks. Sometime the committees people came and shouting in the temple without have any reason and done what they need to do, our monk said, the committees of this temple don’t have Buddhist teachings in their mind, may be next time Buddhist can destroy.
From Myanmar Buddhist group in Malaysia but many word complaint by local Buddhist community in Malaysia.
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