Challenges and difficulties in adopting and practicing traditional Malay festive food

This paper qualitatively reveals the challenges and difficulties of adopting and practicing the traditional Malay festive foods or the Malay traditional Hari Raya foods among three generation women. Using the Malay residential area in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, and Johor as the contextual setting for the study, three generations of Malay women, namely grandmother, mother and daughter within a family were interviewed. The three generation women admitted that time consuming which are dealing with many preparation procedures and cooking processes are the challenges and difficulties in adopting and practicing certain traditional Malay festive foods or traditional Malay Hari Raya foods.