Market Friday - Ramadan and Hari Raya Puasa Vibes

Hello everyone! After a long time, I went grocery shopping recently. I noticed that the Ramadan and Hari Raya (Eid al Fitr) vibes are already here! So, I took a few pictures as I will probably only go grocery shopping after at least two weeks from now on. I found many things associated with celebration, the upcoming festival and tradition as well. This will be my entry for this week's #marketfriday tag, initiated by @dswigle.

In case you don't know what this festival is, let me explain it briefly. Hari Raya Puasa is a festival celebrated by Muslims after a one month fast. The fasting starts in the month of Ramadan which is considered holy and at the end of the month, the celebration of completing the fast victoriously takes place.

Gratitude will be expressed to God as they dealt with their inner struggles while fasting. They will usually have a feast and gathering with family, friends and neighbours, and ask each other for forgiveness for any intentional or unintentional hurt they may have caused. This will further strengthen their relationships and bonds.

These items were arranged at the entrance of the shopping section itself. There were many decorative items sold and a large part of them is lights. You can see some of them were hung on top and they came in the shape of ketupat. Ketupat is the traditional delicacy specially made during Hari Raya Festival. There were also many fairy lights where some were in white while others were in mixed colours.

These are some beautiful artificial decorative flowers. They were mostly in warm colours. As you can see, there were many varieties such as roses, sunflowers and carnations. These were widely in trend before as well and even my family and I have gotten some for decorative purposes. They look beautiful and we don't need to water them and just keep them indoors.

I found more decorative items on the next section. There were some word clouds that say 'Selamat Hari Raya' which are the festival greetings. There also bamboo oil lamps which are symbolic decorations for the festival. There were also some gift related items such as festive envelopes which are used to give money as gift. They are usually given to children by the elders and married people.

Then came the best part, which is the clothing section. There were so many colourful, traditional outfits for everyone, ranging from children outfits to the adults outfits.

These are the children outfits. They are for boys, to be more specific. This is called Baju Melayu.

These are outfits for girls. They had a better range of colours and patterns compared to the outfits set for boys. There were many patterns such as polka dots, stripes, florals and plain ones as well. Some of them are just blouses with a traditional touch while most are Baju Kurung which is the traditional outfit for women and girls.

These are Baju Melayu for men. There were plain ones mostly but some were also with patterns and prints.

These are Baju Kurung for women. They had a large varieties of patterns and all sorts of prints. Unlike the Baju Melayu, there were no plain Baju Kurung.

There were also dates which is a type of dried food eaten while opening the fast, but I forgot to take a picture of it. I did get box of it although neither my family nor I fast. My Ramadan wishes to all Muslims once again and wishing you a blessed month. Thank you for dropping by and I hope that you have a nice day ♥