Jo Kontan

Monday, January 08, 2007

Lesson from Raya Korban - Superlative

"Last weekend was interesting. Our neighbour organised a Street Parteh. Nama (Street parteh) macam Juvenile Tetno ajer. All of the 37 households togeder-geder. Got kambing bakar, satay,. etc. Rasa sikit2 ajer laa. Pukul 10, budak2 dah me-rengek nak balik. Suruh jalan tak mboh...

Anyway, barulah dapat mengenali (selapis) jiran2 setaman nii. Nice."


Macam Raya2 yang sudah, Mok Wan Tukang Jahit sokmo buat Laksa *. Cuma, kali ini, MWTJ agak lavish sikit with the black pepper. Terlebih boh sikit. Hmmm, pedasla kuah laksa tuu.

Laksa Pahang nii, penambah perisanya seperti cili, belacan, dan garam memang diasingkan. I think this is brilliant. Selera dan rasa masing2 tak sama..

Bila Pok Ankejong datang pagi tuu nak makan laksa, kitaorang dah awal2 beritahu dia, kali ini laksa nii agak pedas sikit. Tapi Pok dok kesah. Awal2 lagi dia dah tambah dua camca cili dalam kuah dia.

Bila Pok rasa kuah tuu tersentaklah jugak. Berkerut dahi dia..

"Weeeeeei, pedaehnya laksa nii..."
"Men-cher-ngaet !"
"Men-nger-ngaaet sampei ke jbbottaik"

Now you tell me. How can you beat that for a superlative ?.


* Kontanite Pronunciation = Lak-ser

7 Comments:

  • Jo,

    Pok Ankejong ko ni ada darah keturunan Melaka ke?Lahabau tul, hahahaha!!!

    Sepanjang 17 tahun duduk Pahang continuosly n then balik Kg sekali-sekala or jalan2 makang anging or keje ke Pahang,nobody ever tells me that Pahang ada Laksa :-(.Kat KL ada ke orang Jual Jo?Jommmm :-P.


    Rgds,

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:53 AM, January 08, 2007  

  • superlative ke laxative ...LOL!

    By Blogger Mama Rock, at 11:14 AM, January 08, 2007  

  • I rasa laksa pahang ni macam laksa Gannu je, sedap...miss pulak...

    Eeee teruknya pahang punya superlative form of pedas....klasik.

    By Blogger silversarina, at 6:02 PM, January 08, 2007  

  • Jo,
    I orang pahang gak tapi tak pernah lagi rasa laksa pahang. Minta recepi dgn mok wan you and publish kat sini....mesti ada yang teringin nak mencuba.

    ff

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:04 AM, January 09, 2007  

  • Phanckna : Aderr..

    It is a bit different from Laksa Johor. Yang aku tau, there's a lot of ketumbar, and we're not using rempah kari.

    Rencah2 yang penting, daun kadok, kacang panjang and timun. As far as I can remember no taugeh, and no lobak jerok.

    Kalau aku ingat lagi, One serving is equvalent to one "chak". One chak is one gulong..Kuoh dia tak puteh cam Ganu's. Dan tak sepekat Johor's..


    Mama : ada banyak lagi, yang termasuk dalam golongan unprintables.


    Jordan : Generally, perkataan cam nii (tak serupa orang Melaka :-)) disebut among family members ajer
    :-)



    Auni : dah ada url ? Ikan dapat kat mana ? Pakai ikan apa pulak kat sana. Mebbe auni can put up the recipe ?


    Efef : Nanti kwan gi tanyer Maam recipe.. :-)

    By Blogger Jo Kontan, at 11:18 AM, January 09, 2007  

  • Jo,

    aku tok penoh buat laksa pahang yang bebetol tu.. baba kata tu laksa pekan.. hahha die nok makan laksa temerloh jek.. so my version of laksa pahang tu tok bebetol laksa pahang.. geddit? hahha..pening kome.

    Anyways.. kelakor amat, pok tu .. hahhha jarang2 dengor tu weh..

    By Blogger Arena, at 4:50 PM, January 09, 2007  

  • Arena :

    Ha ha haa. Rasanya memang macam tuu la. Kalau laksa yan kuoh dia macam kuning tuu rasanya laksa Pekan laa. Kuoh putih tuu ganu.

    Temerloh punya kaler mender ?

    Satu gulong tuu dipanggeynya satu chak ? Oda kat Sungai Isap. Sekeylo dua setengoh...

    By Blogger Jo Kontan, at 8:36 AM, January 10, 2007  

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