(for me, at least) … that I'd discovered in Kelantan last week. (I’ve only been to Kelantan three times so far – once in 1988, once in 1996 and last week in 2004… I just noticed the 8-year-interval during my recent trip though.)
1. Colourful telur dadar.
When Jue’s Majlis Khatam Quran was over, the makcik-makcik who took part in it each got to take back home a brown envelope containing some sedekah and a container filled with pulut kuning topped with telur dadar. Not a slice of the normal yellow omelette, but rather colourful thin long shreds of omelette, which reminded me of Chinese yee sang. One makcik invited me to try it. I did and thought that while the green or red stripes of fried egg did not taste that much different from the original yellow ones, they sure looked much more interesting!
2. Akok
I’ve heard of Akok (that special, rather limpy kuih made from mostly duck’s eggs) long ago. Now, I can testify that I kind of like it, provided it’s not too sweet. There was one stall in Salor, Pasir Mas which specialised on making just this kuih every morning and afternoon. So tasteful the Akok Salor that people often buy it in dozens rather than spending a mere ‘riyal’ (ringgit) or two. Jue’s wedding guests were lucky to be treated to this famous Akok Salor as dessert. To my delight, I discovered that there’s another version of not-too-sweet Akok – Akok Berlauk. Why it’s named Akok Berlauk beats me as I thought it resembles more a bahulu than an Akok with savoury fillings akin to beef serunding. Nice!
3. Kuih Semar
Jue bought two packets of this interesting kuih for me to take home (along with lots of keropok, air pencicah, buah salak and tapai pulut). A packet consisted of eight individually wrapped kuih semar made from lots of sugar and sagun. One must not, I repeat, MUST NOT open his or her mouth while chewing on a semar or else the sagun will scatter all over the place. Semars are often found in red or green outer layer of sort-of-crystallized sugar with white centre (sagun). Intriguing!
4 comments:
so did the makcik ever asking you the inevitable question? how's your buah elak and bunga tepis for that kind of question? :P
btw, dah baca dah ke lagenda numerius? Camne? ok ke tak?
-zakzak-
Zakzak: Fortunately for me, not that many asked and I basically survived with lots of smile and feigning not understanding what they were talking about ;-)
As for LN - I plan to blog about it later...
Heyy, they are new to me too. And they sound delicious! Ada pics tak? :P Yum. Yum.
Yusof: The pic of pulut kuning and colorful telur dadar is not yet developed. U can find pics of Akok on the net - just google it. As for semar - I'll take the pic of my last two pieces if I could use my department's digicam... The person in charge of it is attending a meeting elsewhere at the moment...
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