My friend gave me two packs of local snacks bought from her hometown. The item wrapped in white paper is a peanut snack called "kacang tumbuk" (pounded peanut). It is ground peanut mixed with fine sugar and then compressed.
The top layer is separating from the rest.
Ate the top layer and exposed the insides.
Oops, it fell apart.
So I had to scoop up the peanut powder with a spoon to eat it. Do you like to eat this snack? How do you eat it since it is so fragile?
The other snack is a packet of "hup toh soh" = 核桃酥 which means Walnut biscuit but no walnuts are used to make this biscuit so I wonder why name it that way.
Cross section. This is a tasty biscuit.
The pounded peanut snack is our childhood snack, seldom see it in sg nowadays
ReplyDeleteHere also I think it is only available in specialised shops.
DeleteI prefer to eat the biscuit as can dip into milk and eat, eating the pounded peanut snack just like that is too dry for me.
ReplyDeletehahahaha, can mix the pounded peanut snack into milk and drink.
DeleteI love them both. Hard to get good kacang tumbuk these days - not much peanut fragrance mostly these days, all sugar.
ReplyDeleteI also seldom see them being sold in my regular shops.
Deletei'm not into these biscuit....coz I find them dry and hard to swallow. Besides, I dun drink milk/coffee/all-sorts-of-beverages so there is nothing for me to dip them.
ReplyDeleteSo what do you drink? Beer and plain water?
DeleteThe 'kacang tumbuk', take big bites to minimise the mess.
ReplyDelete'Hup toh soh' I buy very often as my dad likes it. So every time I see them I will get some for him.
I think better to put the whole kacang tumbuk into the mouth if the mouth is big enough.
DeleteAfter that cannot talk. Or sneeze.
DeleteHahahaha, you are right! :D
DeleteNormally I have to hold a plate to eat the kacang tumbuk.. nowadays refrained from doing so, too sweet for my old age.. hahaha...
ReplyDeleteNot sweeter than normal ice cream I would say.
DeleteBoth were once my favourite snacks. Now very seldom because need to cut down on snacking.
ReplyDeleteCan snack on raw carrots but if teeth are weak, just drink raw vegetables blended juice will be full and won't feel the need to snack.
DeleteUsed to eat that as a kid. My favourite but I seldom buy and take them anymore.
ReplyDeleteI also have forgotten about them until my friend gave them to me.
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