After attending a wedding luncheon of a family friend, my family and I went to MGS. It stands for Malaysian German Society, yeah sounds like Methodist Girls School.
Yesterday they had a Chirstmas bazaar. Yup, very early indeed. It's more than a month b4 Christmas. We saw this event on the Metro section in the Star paper and decided to check it out. It's situated at 250-B Jalan Air Itam.
To make directions simpler to go to this place: It is clustered together with the Hospice and Japanese Association buildings, directly opposite Han Chiang high school. The bungalow of this assoc is right inside the small road, in blue. Hospice is in beige-orange, whilst Japanese assoc is white. We were quiet 'sesat' coz this is the first time we were going there. Guess what, since the address is Jln Air Itam we ended searching through the whole Air Itam (signs on the roads display Air Hitam) right up to Kek Lok Si. We started targeting addresses right after Chung Ling High School. On the left were odd numbers so up we went to KLS, U-turn to and came accross even numbers addresses. But numbers range from single digits to 600+ numbers. Finally, got an idea! Proceeded to search the small area off the road after state mosque and bingo. It's there la.
The place- once you enter on your right is the library. It is stocked with, well, German books. Ranging from History to Humor. There are English books as well. Novels in German are also available. Readable if proficiency is high enuff =P. On the left is where cookies, home-made jams and German sausages (die Wurst) are sold. Upstairs there is a classroom, and in the hall, home-made cakes are sold. There are a variety of cakes. The chocolate cakes (die Schokoladentorte) must not be missed. Even the sellers kept on uttering "Schokoladentorte... ja, ja" to the customers. They were the must trys. Other varieties include Apricot, butter cakes, walnut-coffee, coconut and fruit pastries. They were selling out fast although they cost about RM5 per piece. The taste...wunderbar! Wonderful! Very tasty as the flavours, be it butter, choc or apricot flavours are enhanced as u pop them in your mouth. Since they are home-made, they tasted like those home-mades. Meaning the recipes used are prepared using home techniques with the ready made ingredients. That's why there's a lil ginger taste in the chocolate and bits of nuts here and there. Even the for the apricot cake, some apricot parts were juicy and some-the normal dry apricots.
Outside the premises they were selling those Christmas ornaments that you can hang on the X-Mas trees. Prices ranged from RM 5 to RM 10++. They were all hand-made by Ingel, as were written on the card next to the decos. A X-Mas card costs RM8, and coz it's hand made most of the cards have unique designs with not too many repetition of the same designs. What else can I say about this place... it's a place where they have events throughout the year like movie screenings, language classes and festivals for fund raising. They are supported by members of the expatriats and their family members who work here and for the public. Entrance is free so everyone can just go and have a look and mix around. ;-)
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