Snacks
Lor Mai Kai Pau at Desa Sri Petaling, Kuala Lumpur
When I first heard about a pau with lor mai kai filling, I was intrigued. Lor Mai Kai, as most dim sum goers will know, is glutinous rice steamed with chicken and mushroom and is very flavoursome. It is also known as Lor Mai Fan which means the glutinous rice.
One dim sum shop in Kuala [...]
Steamed Buns with Char Siew (roast pork) filling
I hesitate to call this a char siew pau (or char siew bao). It isn’t a char siew pau (steamed bun with roast pork filling) in the truest sense of the word. I guess you could call this a char siew pau with a twist.
A usual char siew pau will only have the white steamed [...]
Tau Fu Fa - Soy Bean Pudding Dessert at Tengkat Tong Shin Kuala Lumpur
I am averse to soy bean based products but I will always make an exception for good tau fu fa or tau foo fa, a dessert made out of soy beans. The soy bean milk is congealed into a pudding or custard consistency and is usually served hot with sweetened syrup.
One of the better tau [...]
Nyonya Pineapple Tarts
What is visiting Melaka (Malacca) without having some traditional Nyonya cookies? My favourite cookie of all is the Nyonya Pineapple Tart or what I call the “Open Pineapple Tarts”; so called because the jam is visible and placed in the middle of the pastry, instead of being rolled up inside the pastry. I call those [...]
