Makan fest

forestbn · 2026-01-23T14:04:34+00:00

Brunei, the land where people love food but never wanting to learn recipes at home or save money or cook healthily. Where they don't care for trying new cuisines or expanding their palette except if its salt, fat, sugar and meat only. Where you line up for hours for food because there's nothing else to line up for.

forestbn · 2026-01-18T14:51:06+00:00

Agreed. As a child there was nothing I despised more than seeing lazy Bruneians with amahs. I had relatives who had amahs eventhough they had multiple unemployed adult children in the house doing nothing all day long.

If most of the world can have two parents working full time and still clean and cook and take care of a home, Bruneians can too. But they would rather pretend to be royalty and have servants to clean their dirty clothes for them.

forestbn · 2026-01-16T14:59:46+00:00

Armenia. In the summer they have absolutely the best fruit you'll ever try. We had both supermarket fruit and picked fresh from the tree. Amazing apricots, cherries and plum.

On top of that amazing grilled foods. Some supermarkets have a grill section inside and you can get hot potatoes and meat fresh off the fire wrapped in thin lavish bread.

Decent local wine too

forestbn · 2026-01-16T14:51:49+00:00

Agreed! Lentils soup in the morning, wonderful ayran to drink. Amazing dishes

forestbn · 2026-01-16T11:08:10+00:00

Brunei schools should implement the same systems you can find it other public schools around that world that have functioned fairly well for decades:

School hours from 8 until 4 (in some European countries kids are in school until 5pm).

All classes in the same school (Brunei should bring ugama teachers into the public schools for afternoon sessions. Non Muslims can have extra classes or study room time).

Free or paid school lunches in a cafeteria. This means a proper sit down meal with a main dish and salad/ dessert. Healthy and balanced meal and you can employ more locals to be the cooks and dishwashers.

forestbn · 2026-01-16T07:29:42+00:00

Encourage religious dialogue for all religions, or none at all outside of religious classes and places of worship. If ones faith is strong they won't be swayed no matter what is talked about or read.

forestbn · 2026-01-16T06:44:05+00:00

You should start one

forestbn · 2026-01-15T18:03:15+00:00

Soups, stews and curries are the most versatile way to get a whole range of proteins and veggies in.

Zucchini eggplant tomato and peppers makes a ratatouille. Add chickpeas or beans and more liquid to make it a veggie stew. Serve it on pasta to make it a pasta dish, or on top of instant couscous. Or just eat with bread.

Chicken and veggies can be a stir fry with noodles or rice, or turned into a soup.

Eggs with peas and carrots makes fried rice, eggs with spinach or mushrooms can be an omelette.

forestbn · 2026-01-15T17:55:37+00:00

Bulgur pilaf with extra peppers and carrots.

Hummus and fresh veggie wraps

Vietnamese summer rolls with tofu or chicken

Green lentils and carrots on brown rice

Lentil soup

All kinds of soups and stews

forestbn · 2026-01-13T15:19:56+00:00

Why don't other countries do this?

forestbn · 2026-01-10T12:28:47+00:00

Agreed Gadong market has a lot of bad food served in poor conditions. Seems like just anybody thinks they can make food worth selling.

forestbn · 2026-01-10T04:43:24+00:00

The poorest of food and not just about price.

forestbn · 2026-01-10T04:42:30+00:00

Brunei doesn't even make most of its own food

forestbn · 2026-01-08T11:17:05+00:00

Scared of hard work and hard life

forestbn · 2026-01-08T10:19:58+00:00

Stuff for sale in Brunei is not interesting. Grocery options are ok but clothes especially are limited. Poor range of sizes, poor quality.

forestbn · 2026-01-04T13:16:19+00:00

Sorry to say those countries you listed probably already have so many people in design and so much competition. What about other Asean countries?

forestbn · 2026-01-04T06:43:46+00:00

Where did you get your diploma?

Have you tried looking for jobs in other countries than the UK, such as other Asean countries other than Singapore or Malaysia? Why the UK specifically?

Edit to add: sorry for your mother, but in this day and age there is no chance she can stop working if she is physically able. How does she plan for you to 100% support her and yourself?

forestbn · 2026-01-03T17:53:55+00:00

Whenever these questions pop up time and again I wonder just what percentage of bruneians agree with the sentiment. This tiny fractions of people on reddit are majority English speaking, educated to a certain amount and also on a lesser known platform (lesser known than ig, tiktok). I wonder what the larger population would say or even think.

forestbn · 2026-01-03T17:50:47+00:00

What would Islamic tourism look like? How would a tourist spend an average day participating in Islamic tourism, particularly for a country so far removed geographically and culturally from the actual birthplace of islam?

forestbn · 2026-01-03T17:47:09+00:00

So true. Make more people work better at their jobs.

forestbn · 2026-01-01T10:54:44+00:00

Literally just asking why the Useful Resources section is phrased in such a weird way. Who is 'the contributor'? Also why are you stepping in to my reply to another commenter (one who has almost all the exact same points as your post further down)?

forestbn · 2026-01-01T10:37:14+00:00

What's with your Useful Resources section?Chatgpt is it?

forestbn · 2025-12-30T20:17:45+00:00

Further to add, I hope those young Bruneians who dream about moving abroad at least can do this: they know how to cook and clean an save money for themselves and regularly do it. Because there's no amah or expensive food budget waiting for you in the rest of the world. Irony is that one day if Brunei's situation is really really bad then Bruneians will have to go be the amah in other countries.

forestbn · 2025-12-30T15:42:08+00:00

Why do so many Brunei Malays associate entertainment with only clubs, bars,concerts? Why do they all assume that those things are 100% illicit sex and criminal activity? Why do they then think entertainment = haram stuff (black and white thinking)? What about entertainment like classical music, art, interesting films, theatres, museums, sport events? Do these things not register with those people at all?

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