Like the result of a fever dream, or garnishing your Hari Raya rendang daging with leaves from the wrong tree in your backyard, rainbow-coloured fried flatbread is now on the menu.
Bright pink, lime green, schoolbus yellow, and aquamarine roti canai was what greeted Harian Metro‘s Mohd Hilmie Hussin when he covered Negeri Sembilan state assemblyman Ghazale Muhamad’s Hari Raya open house in Jasin yesterday, and it being Aidilfitri, no one was tripping balls and hallucinating the whole thing.
The multi-hued variants of everyone’s favourite mamak food was the brainchild of 55-year old Zulkefli Sharif, who figured he might as well draw attention to the basic dish by mixing up his dough with food colouring – you know, so people will be alarmed when they eat.
He also said the colourful roti canai was his interpretation of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s vision of 1Malaysia.
“I merely wanted to put out something different, and in line with the PM’s 1Malaysia concept. We all live in harmony here in Jasin, and this hasn’t been done before,” he said.
Zulkefli’s rainbow canai joins the global lineup of similarly-hued things (that aren’t the Rainbow flag, because that might be a bit too liberal for the Federal Government):
Okay, that last one might be a bit too LGBT-friendly too. Better scratch that. Sorry, Rainbow Brite.
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