Thaipusam in Batu Caves 27 Jan 2013

After almost 29 years being a Malaysian, I finally set foot on one the the most famous Malaysia heritage, the Batu Caves. Every year, thousands and millions of our Hindu friends visit this place during the Thaipusam festival.

I didn't focus much on the event as the crowd was too big and I rather spend time serving food as a charity event invited by Nimalen. The charity food serving started since Nimalen's grandpa time. At that time, the food was given from a van. Then, the crowd grew larger and they began to pitch tents. Over the years, the tents grew bigger until one day they raised funds to build a hall.

 The hall can fill up to about 250 people at one time and the place is cleaned before the next group of people are allowed to come in.

Volunteers systematically serve food starting from the banana leaf and then followed by vegetables, rice, curry and papadom (thin, crisp Indian bread made from lentil flour).

It was tiring but was interesting and I truly enjoyed being there. I should have taken some photos of how the food was prepared and cooked. After all, cooking for about 15,000 servings is no easy feat. Shall take some photos next year.