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Colorful Pasar Tani
29 August, 2010 in Food, scenery | Tags: Ampang, beggars, colorful, cookies, everyday life, family business, farmer's market, foods, market, Nokia 6120, pasar tani, photos, Ramadan, scenery, sightseeing, Steve Irwin Crocodile Hunter, Taman Ahmad Razali, Taman Melawati, tourist, vegetables | by akarimomar | Leave a comment
If you have friends from overseas visiting here (especially the Mat Sallehs) and you do not quite know where else to take them around after showing all the concrete jungles thinking that you want to impress them – try taking them to pasar tani (farmer’s market).
As tourist, many of those friends that I took to pasar tani were impressed and enjoyed the short walk along the crowded path with stalls and squeezing around the people under the umbrellas and the heat (if you go late).
We sometime did not think they are here to see the normal everyday life of the general public and the natural colors of the population and crowd. Thus pasar tani is definitely natural sightseeing for many of them.
Here are some of the photos of the colorful blend of people, vegetables, food items and everything …

The pasar tani at Taman Ahmad Razali (Ampang, Selangor) flats is a small one but yet it is just as exemplary as other bigger ones. And today it seems to be extra quiet with more than 20% of the stalls not operating.

don't mixed up with the variety of "bawang"s ... bawang merah, bawang besar etc and doing a direct translation!

How would to explain about petai? How it is "plucked" - will you be able to describe about the tree? How you cook/eat ... why must it be specially hanged?

I once went to the Asian Food Store in Carbondale, IL (many years ago) and asked the American shop assistant for "shrimp paste" when he looked back at me with a question mark on his face and asked "do mean belacan?"

Hisham also takes his nursery to Taman Melawati Pasar Tani (as also many of this pasar tani operators)
Give it a try the next time you have a foreign guest to take around.
Nothing fancy about my camera. It was taken using Nokia 6120 phone camera.
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