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Image Source: Someone who was mesmerised by dates

I love dates ... too much :) breakfast dates with toast and cheese and tea and sometimes like yesterday for dinner ... with briyani brought over by a friend who has just opened a new eating place in seremban ... mmmm

but this is about something else ... i like this particular type of kurma ... the tunisian because it is just nicely firm yet soft to the bite ... and not too sweet  ...

a few days ago i bought a pack similar to this one below from an Arab shop in the hypermarket.  ... how much i asked picking a packet of tunisian dates ... rm15 the sales assistant - an Arab said ... this one rm14 he offered a second brand cheaper because it was less by 100gm ... okay i'll take the first one i said ... it looked so yummy tak banyak cakaplah saya ... i was still there tengok tengok barang lain nampak pula Arab cheese ... rm6 he said ... two for rm10 he further offered ... okay please give me two i said ... mereka tak berapa pandai bahasa melayu so cakap BI je lah.

then a couple came ... tengok tengok kurma juga ... the man tanya berapa ni ... rm15 ... man pegang pack tu and tanya lagi rm10? ... and i like terlopong ... dalam hati that much less he wanted??? ... man tu tak main main - dia serious minta ... nampak sales assistant tu macam serba salah ... no he said ... saya pula yang naik sedih ... and seperti biasanya i pula yang menyibuk -  tolong explained to the man ... yang ini rm15 - yang ini pula rm14  sebab kurang100gm ... kurang rm1 okay kot ... dalam hati harap dia faham maksud saya janganlah minta discount macam tu sekali ... berpada padalah ... kan

(by the way ... i am pretty sure he could afford it ... if otherwise tak de lah bercerita saya ni ... lagi pula saya minta salesperson tu kesian kat customer kalau nampak tak mampu ... kalau real fakir tolong belikan untuknya pun insyaAllah ... mesti ada perlunya fakir tu nak beli kan ...)

 

Kurma Tunisia

i cerita pada oghang besar dighumah ... and dia kata betul lah that man bargaining tu sunnah ... and i said ye lah but biarlah berpada pada jangan sampai buat orang sampai rasa serba salah ...

kalau unpleasant salesperson dia akan buat selamba and ignore you suruh blah je ... but nice people yang hatinya lembut memang rasa serba salah ... percayalah ...

kalau kita makan dekat hot plate entah apa apa tak sunnah pun ... empat beranak sekeluarga for example ... four plates about rm20++ ... ada kita minta discount? 10 sen pun tidak kan! ...

ni sunnah food ... benda baik ... from a developing muslim nation ... tak usahlah berkira sangat ... kan

and oghang besar kata lagi dah banyak untung retailer tu ... still i am not convinced ... ni makanan bukan kain tudung ke atau non-essential items ...

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pergi body shop atau kedai perancis yang nama pun tak reti nak pronounce tu (dah sampai ke sini pula hehe ... macam ni lah when something in principle bothers me) ... most of the raw material is from africa community trade tu (macam argan oil tu) ... fikir how much they buy from the community and how much the products are sold to us ... but in this case the customers are mostly perempuan ... tak banyak kisah kan ...boleh beli ambil - kalau tidak -tinggalkan je ... simple je perempuan ni kan ... itu sebab elok sangat perempuan jadi menteri ... aman ... lurus ulu bendul je macam saya lah ye ... kalau tak setuju angkat tangan ... hehehe :)

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tina ... nyibuk je mak 'mbong ni ... hehehe