Sunday, December 27, 2015

Soft and tasty

After eating duck kway chap at Lebuh Kimberley, we walked to Lebuh Cintra to buy food from the stall below:

What is this stall selling?

Bak Tong Gou (cantonese) - literal translation - White Sugar Cake. This is a traditional steamed rice cake - soft and best eaten warm to enjoy the rich fragrance of rice - delicious!

Only RM0.80 per piece. 
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16 comments:

  1. suituapuiDecember 27, 2015 at 5:52 AM

    It's white! Steamed some more? Don't think I've tried this - had something with that ant's nest texture but was yellowish or green (pandan). Not sure if it wasn't steamed.

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    1. munDecember 28, 2015 at 8:25 PM

      Not sure whether you will like this white one or not.

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  2. Lux G.December 27, 2015 at 10:33 AM

    Bak Tong Gou looks delish.

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  3. contact.ewewDecember 27, 2015 at 11:44 AM

    I like the brown one...called Ma Lai Ko, I think.

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    1. munDecember 28, 2015 at 8:30 PM

      I like to eat Ma Lai Ko too especially from Tim Ho Wan but Brown and white ones the texture is very different.

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  4. PHDecember 27, 2015 at 3:55 PM

    The texture of the cake looks familiar. I've had something like that before when I was a kid.

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  5. CL (RealGunners)December 28, 2015 at 1:46 PM

    Same thing like previous post, if you ask for this, I will say: "Don't play lah, the Ma Lai Gou we get in KL is much better!"... I'm super biased...

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    1. munDecember 28, 2015 at 8:32 PM

      Hehehe yes you are super biased and this is bak tong gou not ma lai gou.

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    2. CL (RealGunners)December 29, 2015 at 1:20 PM

      I mean ma lai gou taste better than bak tong gou... hahaha

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    3. munDecember 31, 2015 at 3:20 AM

      I like to eat both! :)

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  6. Twilight ManDecember 28, 2015 at 3:42 PM

    I loved eating them and had no idea of the name till today. Thanks for getting the name for me. I always simply called them white huat kueh in Hokkien. Silly me.

    I forgot to mention that the 2nd most famous Duck Kueh chiap stall is at the corner coffee shop right opposite the Pulau Tikus Church.

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    1. munDecember 28, 2015 at 8:35 PM

      Thanks. Will try the pulau tikus duck kway chap the next time I go penang. Maybe in hokkien it is called white huat kueh?

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  7. StacyDecember 29, 2015 at 9:49 AM

    Small lighted stall in the darkness like that, love it!

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