Nine emperor Gods

In Penang and else in Malaysia, it a vegetarian seasons for the diciples of Nine Emperors God. Mostly it is celebrated with grand by Chinese and Indians. The vegetarian restaurant having more customers and also the temporary hawker stalls growing like mushrooms.

Yesterday night, the diciples went to invite the Gods from the sea. They have many activities since yesterday in the temple. Local preople told me, yesterday some of them started to take vege foods (Cleaned the stomach). From the 1st September of chinese lunar month calander, the diciples will take vege foods for 9 days. Then they will send back the Nine emperors god back to the sea on the 9th day.

At the beginning of the celebration, we can see some changes at the road side, you can see many temporary hawker stalls with yellow cloth and written the Nine emperors God characteristic hang at the entrance of the stalls. Tables and chairs had been prepared. The hawker prepared the pure vegetarian cuisine. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea time ad supper foods can be find in this kind of stalls. Varieties of food had been purposely prepared. Noodles, rice with all kind of vege foods, cake (in Malaysia, commonly called as Kuih), western food too...........many choices......

The diciples are very particular in theirs' eating ustensils, they cannot allowed the chopsticks, spoon or fork, plates and cups previously served with pork. They will use the most clean ustensils (never touch with any pork before). Most of the hawker sells the clean ustensils for the customers and of course pay by the customers.

Anyway, some of the local people who not really taken the vegetarian foods also join to eat in the hawker stalls like this. It makes the environment more grand. Of course most of the time harly to get car park area. Vehicles are every where.
The price of these kind of vegetarian foods are expensive, some are extremely expensive. Somehow, most of the local poeple never bother so much, once a year and the most important thing is cleaning of mind and physical of ownself.