The busiest day in the busiest month!!! Grrr....

Salaam...
This Ramadhan as I said before is my busiest month ever...but on August 27th, Thursday was my busiest day of all....Grrr!

Wednesday 26th August, 3.45 pm
Datok Razhi told me to contact some personnel regarding their ad-hock order for goat BBQ. I was informed on Wednesday and the event was on Thursday - the next day! Plus, they requested 5 carcasses for about 500 people! We have a few hours to get ready so Datok asked 'em to reduce the quantity to 4 carcasses...

Wednesday 26th August, 4.30 pm
My bro, Ayen went to our farm to ease our farm worker, Mael to slaughter the goats needed for Thursday. I thought it would only be 4 goats, but another ad-hocker made an order of 2 carcasses (marinated only) to be sent to Bera! Plus, we also in need of a carcass for the Bazaar on Thursday...*sigh*. Total, we need to slaughter 7 carcasses for Thursday!!!

Wednesday 26th August, 7.50 pm
I've settled everything at the Bazaar and we're all packed-up. I called Bro Huzaimy (also my Boss) who was also at the farm to help out the slaughtering thing...I offered my help and he said it would be wonderful as they have a few goats needed to be skinned..So I went to Labu Lanjut, Sepang where the farm is situated. Oh, by the way...My Girlfriend was with me at that time, so I brought her there too =).

Wednesday 26th August, 8.20 pm
I arrived at the farm and there were 5 slaughtered goats which needed to be skinned...5 dude!!! We hang 3 of 'em and started the skinning process...and my girl was watching and experiencing my job...Nice! So she knows...hehe

Wednesday 26th August, 11.00 pm
We've skinned all the goats and the carcasses is ready to be marinated. Ayen and Bro Huzaimy went straight away to Datok's house and I went to Serdang to send my girl home. After saying goodnight I went down to Datok's to settle the job.

Wednesday 26th August, 11.55 pm
I arrived at Datok's and there were Ayen, Ron, Azmer and Bro Huzaimy. We cleaned the carcasses and arrange 'em on the table. Then the marination begun... It took us about an hour and a half to complete the process and it was almost 4 o'clock when we finished (the cleaning process took about 30 minutes and we rested for a while before started marinating)

Thursday 27th August, 4.15 am
We had our sahur at Datok's and everyone was exhausted...After the meal, we set up the fire to roast the carcasses...and I was sleepy...

Thursday 27th August, 5.00 am
My brothers started to roast the carcasses - 2 of 'em at one time using our grillers including a new modified metal racks. At that time, I can't help myself but lying down on the floor at the yard before I fell asleep...Sorry guys...

Thursday 27th August, 1.30 pm
I woke up for several times before and moved myself to some places to sleep...At 12 noon, a guy from Bera came and took away 2 carcasses. Another 5 carcasses were all roasted and ready to be served. Ayen and I cleaned up the mess we've made and getting ready for the event on the evening. Ron and Azmer were asleep as they also had to work at the bazaar dat evening..Ayen and I went back home at 2.30 pm to clean ourselves up and get ready to serve 4 goat BBQ at Dewan sri Endon, Putrajaya.

Thursday 27th August, 3.20 pm
We arrived at home...Ayen took his bath and I fell asleep...again! After I woke up, I bathed and got myself ready. I went to Putrajaya at 5 pm.

....to be continued ( I need to wash the dishes we used at the bazaar lah... )

Bazaar Ramadhan @ S13, Shah Alam!!!

Assalamualaikum...

This Ramadhan is my busiest month ever...I have now the experience of being a hawker in a bazaar. It has been 3 days and I'm quite enjoying it!

Goat BBQ is our product and we had 3 days (until today) of sold out BBQ!!! A good business it is but a very exhausting one for us the staff-on-field. We are a team of 6 people who are divided into 3 groups. 1st group - Slaughter. 2nd group - prepare the marinate, sauces etc. 3rd group - marinate the carcass of goat, cook and sell!! I'm in the 3rd group and we are the toughest of all...*sigh*

We start our jobs at 1 pm every day - preparing the materials and set up our stall at the bazaar. At 3 pm, we start grilling or should I say BBQing at the stall. A whole carcass takes about 2 hours to cook, so at 5 pm, the BBQ is ready to sell. We sell the BBQ in 2 different sizes - small for RM7.50 and large for RM14. Cheap though...

We have just finished marinate a carcass for tomorrow. It's 11.07 now and I have not eaten dinner. I'm fasting on daylight so I 'berbuka' at Maghrib with Mango juice. After this, I'll eat something on my way back home. So hungry right now...

I'll be adding some photos of my dayly works at the bazaar in the blog. Yummy....
Till then... See ya!

The difference between Lamb, Hogget, Mutton, and Chevon

Assalamualaikum...

As an employee in Livestock Industry, I always met people (specifically Malaysians) who misunderstands the difference between Lamb, Hogget, Mutton, and Chevon. It's not really their fault as for myself, I've been taught in school dat lamb is sheep's meat and mutton is goat's. Well...is the teachers to blame? i don't know, coz they were taught the same before..*sigh*..

So what is all these stuff? They're a few small ruminants' red meat which we consume for years. We can find 'em easily in the market but do we know their difference or perhaps some facts about 'em?

In most countries, Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep. The meat of an animal in its first year is lamb; that of an older sheep is hogget and later mutton.

• Lamb — a young sheep under 12 months of age which does not have any permanent incisor teeth in wear
• Hogget — a young male sheep or maiden ewe having no more than two permanent incisors in wear
• Mutton — a female (ewe) or castrated male (wether) sheep having more than two permanent incisors in wear.

In many eastern countries including the Indian sub-continent, Malaysia and Singapore the term mutton refers to goat's meat (which is also called chevon) and usually not to sheep's meat. Often, the so-called mutton curries of the Indian cuisine use goat meat when cooked at home, although in Indian restaurants sheep meat is often used.

So in Malaysia, we can conclude dat mutton and chevon is goat's meat and lamb and mutton is sheep's meat! dat's confusing...So as a consumer, do ask the shopkeeper this and that until u satisfied and buy wut u wanted. This is important as the prices are not the the same!!! In fact, the nutritions are shocking!!! Beware.....

I'll post the difference of the prices and nutritions later coz right now I have a date !!! =) Till we meet again!

Cheow! Salaam...

Assalamualaikum and Greetings to all...

Welcome to all readers to my very blog. After years, now I'm thinking of blogging as my head is about to blow. Everyday i learn new things but from time to time, I cant help but forgetting some to fill in new ones...Lol. In this blog, I'll try my best to write all my thoughts and hopefully everyone could find it useful or at least someday I know the place to find whenever i forgot 'em. So, enjoy your stay and have fun!!!