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Hari Raya Aidilfitri is the Malay term for the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr. Hari Raya also know as Lebaran or Hari Raya Puasa, literally "Fasting Day of Celebration". The term "Hari Raya" literally means "Day of Celebration" — it is also occasionally used to refer to Eid ul-Adha in the form of "Hari Raya Aidiladha". The main greeting used by Muslims in Malaysia and Singapore is "Selamat Hari Raya" which means "Happy Eid" in Malay. Another greeting is "maaf zahir dan batin" which translates loosely to "I seek forgiveness (from you) physically and spiritually", for Hari Raya is a time to reconcile and renew relationships with others.
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Usually on the eve of the celebrations, family members, especially mothers and housewives, will be busy preparing food, cakes, sweets, biscuits and various delicacies to be served on the day of Hari Raya. Delicacies are such as:
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Ketupat is a type of dumpling made from rice that has been wrapped in a woven palm leaf pouch, which is then boiled. As the rice cooks, the grains begin to expand to fill the pouch and the rice becomes compressed. This method of cooking gives the ketupat its characteristic form and texture of a rice dumpling. Ketupat is usually eaten with rendang (a type of dry beef curry) or served as an accompaniment to satay.There are many varieties of ketupat, with two of the more common ones being ketupat nasi and ketupat pulut. Ketupat nasi is made from white rice and is wrapped in a square shape with coconut palm leaves while ketupat pulut is made from glutinous rice is usually wrapped in a triangular shape using the leaves of the fan palm (Licuala). Ketupat pulut is also called "ketupat palas" in Malaysia.
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Lemang
is a traditional Malay food cooked in a hollowed bamboo stick. Lemang is made of glutinous rice with coconut milk, salt added for taste and is cooked in long bamboo tubes. These bamboo tubes are cooked using open-air fire. Banana leaves are used to line the tube before putting in the glutinous rice soaked with coconut milk. Some Lemang recipes add corn as well and are usually eaten with rending.
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Rendang
is a dish, which originated from Indonesia Minangkabau people. It is a Minangkabau culture that rending always served during ceremonial and festival occasions. Sometime rending being described as curry, and the name is sometimes applied to curried meat dishes in Malaysia; authentic Rendang is nothing like a curry.
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