Cendol Seller during Hungry Ghost
Month
A Cendo street seller on Hungry Ghost
Month meets an unforgettable and frightening encounter with a ghost.
Kalimuthu is Cendol street vendor for over 25 years and he
travels to different places in Butterworth in Penang where he sells to his take-away
customers. Kalimuthu makes cendol strips by personally by hand (actually by his
wife… ha!ha!) and together with the red beans, sweet corn, shaved iced and of
course with ‘gula melaka’(yeah!), it provides a unique flavor to the cendol
which he sells to his customers.
A Bowl of Cendol
On that particular evening, he was in a
field around Assumption school where some school boys had finished with the
football game and after the game, some of them had gather to drink from his
stall. They were gathered drinking, chatting busily about the game and it was
getting late when they left.
Kalimuthu was gathering the used plastic
bowls and spoons when he noticed a small boy (around 7 to 8 years old) standing
faced to the back of Kalimuthu. The other boys who were drinking were around 14
to 15 years and this boy was much younger. Thinking it must be a younger
brother to one of the boys, he asked “Are you done?” while clearing the used bowls
and spoons.
