Walk-through of the gorcery

Part of my plan to give you all an idea on the cost of living here.. today decided to take some snap shots of the grocery aisle ..  

We are walking through Aeon Big , it is similar to Walmart if you want to compare..they sell from grocery to furniture to electronic to everything. .. it is a Japanese owned company .. recently renovated.. its close to where I live

Bakery shop

you could see the decor for Chinese new year , just ended

Fruits and Vege section 

Local fruits : from pineapple to papaya to rose apple and more

Watermelon form Kedah, Malaysia.. it was mashAllah sweet . one big one cost me ~8RM 

Got some honey dew.. yet to try them..and those are watermelon from Thailand

Citrus!

Veges 

organic oranges and dragon fruit behind it.. dragon fruit and mango milkshake are gooood 

FISH

the one on the left is golden pomp-fret , it taste like butter .. literally -mashAllah

you will see shrimps and i think those are squids  

Yummy - more fish

2nd from left Kerupu - also known as Grouper or Hamor in middle east.. another favorite  49/kg one of the expensive fishes 

after that , you will see Tenggiri also known as King fish.. very good fish .very taste and almost no bones ... local fish and cheap..only 30/kg..though last week I paid a bit more at the wet market due to holidays as most of the fishers were closed .. wet market , prices are known to fluctuate alot so you need to know your stuff..

more fishes with prices

MEAT 

mainly Australian beef  and lamb

jams and peanut butter

O CANADA .......

MILK 

and Cheese

Chips and more .. 

Had dinner with the brothers at the Masjid

if you remember I posted about they have food every Thursday night at the masjid... lots of it.. all the brothers gather after Isha and have food.. they food is prepared at the Masjids kitchen which is fairly big.

they have different food every week.. this time they had Rice(mandi style) with Fried chicken ,some sauce,  sweets , cake, fruit , tea, ice tea , and some other stuff ..

Overall it was nice talking to the bothers you are sitting with sharing your plate..

nice Cheese naan

A friend took me to pakistani/indian area in KL to check out few shops , wanted to buy few things from there... this is near the Masjid India area...

Tried these cheese naan there own by a datu. He is a paksitani and earned a title of 'Sir' equalant in malaysia

Cost  20RM to feed both of us.. Naan, with Chicken Tikka .. it was good

Cost of maintaining a Car

SalamAlikum,

here is the  first of my posting on cost of living ..

Price of gas is 210 cents / liter which comes up to 62cents US / liter

Car wash are extremely cheap .. for 10 RM I can get it cleaned inside out..

Oil Change and service as I heard are inexpensive depending on the make... of-course local made cars are very cheap to maintain  as the part are cheap and labor is of course cheap anyways...

Toll, yes they have tolls here but minimal depending on what routes you take.. you can set your GPS to skip them..

Insurance , I am not sure

Renting a car , I am paying almost 1000RM per month for a small car called VIVA , local made and i only worry about the gas. For a van or something slightly bigger car expect to pay 1500-2000 RM per month

Buying a car , yah they are expensive , but if you look you can get good deals especially in local. you can get a brand new for something like ford focus you can get brand new for 30K. For a van expect to pay almost 50-60k for local made but please don't think local made is bad, these are well designed and nice looking car and very cheap to maintain .. they are like how  Hyundias and Kia are in US or Canada..

Gas cost 

Snow car wash

Hand wash from top top bottom , inside out..

Coming soon.. cost of Living in Malaysia

AsalamAlikum brothers...

Allahamdulliah .. We are settling down and I think it is time to start identifying the actual  cost of living here and inshaAllah will try do my best to post my findings hopefully month by month bases so that you guys can get an idea. 

This will include cost of maintaining a car, electricity , water , gas, internet, grocery , eating out and more 

I though I should start posting more meaningful information now  :)