Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Nyonya Not

 At the end of May, I went to AA Meat Shop (http://www.aameatshop.com.my/) to buy some An Xin's brand fresh pork ribs and saw that the meat shop was selling some frozen dumplings so I bought a Nyonya dumpling at MYR6.90 nett to try.

After steaming it, I was disappointed to see that this Nyonya dumpling is not blue in colour. The minced pork fillings within the glutinous rice is not sweet at all and I couldn't taste any candied wintermelon within the minced meat so I don't think this is an authentic Nyonya dumpling but it is also not the normal type of bak chang that I am used to with black-eyed beans or mung beans, mushrooms, a chunk of pork meat, chestnuts, salted egg yolks so I think it tried to be a Nyonya chang but did not come even close.

The receipt above did say that it is a Nyonya Dumpling at MYR6.90 nett. Must remember not to buy chang/chung from this meat shop.

26 comments:

  1. I like dumpling with a lot of pork meat inside

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    1. This one has lots of minced or chopped up pork meat.

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    2. The one you had looked more like savoury rice dumplings(咸肉粽)

      I prefer 咸肉粽

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    3. Yes, the dumpling in my photo can be considered a 咸肉粽 (savoury rice dumpling).

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  2. Definitely not a nyonya dumpling this one. Sigh.. so sad that people use the NYONYA name to boost their sales.

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    1. I don't think they purposely did that. Maybe they thought this is how a nyonya chang is.

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  3. i want that!! didn't have for 2 years =(

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    1. If you come to visit KL, you can always buy dumplings from a stall in O&S in Paramount, PJ. They sell them all year round.

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  4. RM6.90 is mighty expensive for a nyonya dumpling wannnabe...and even if it had been a good one. I did not get to buy any this year in Kuching - post on that coming soon in my blog. :'(

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    1. The minimum price here for a savoury bak chang is MYR6 so this one is only 90 cents more.

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  5. I have 2 changs so far this year. Meat changs. Personally I prefer groundnuts changs.

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    1. I think I have more than 2 this year so far. Will definitely have more before this year ends.

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  6. I know this is a dumpling post but... why are you buying pork ribs? Are you going to... you know... ??

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    1. Hahaha, no, not me. My spouse is going to cook ABC soup with pork ribs and I had to go buy because we cannot find a place to park the car.

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  7. I've not had a Nyonya dumpling before coz I'm afraid that I may not like the sweet taste.

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    1. Can't comment about the sweet taste here because I have not tasted an authentic Nyonya dumpling.

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  8. That's definitely not a Nonya dumpling. Wonder if they made a mistake labeling it?

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    1. Don't think they made a mistake. This is a nyonya chang wannabe, hehehe.

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  9. LOL at the chang trying to be a Nonya one. I had my first ever 'nonya' chang recently and it wasn't blue either. It tasted peppery and coriander powder-ish. No idea if that's how a nonya chang is supposed to be like hehe.

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    1. I think your chang is also a Nyonya chang wannabe, hehehe. Nyonya chang is supposed to have candied winter melon inside with coarsely chopped pork fillings and partly blue in colour for the glutinous rice.

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    2. Ok must continue the quest for an authentic one! The candied winter melon part doesn't sound attractive to me actually. I associate that with desserts.

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    3. I think the candied winter melon will blend in nicely with the meat so it will taste good.

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  10. I love chang too. I once bought a Nyonya chang and it was not blue and not tasty at all.

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    1. I think your chang is also a Nyonya chang wannabe. Nyonya chang is supposed to be very tasty and bursting with flavours.

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  11. Yes, nyonya chang is supposed to be bluish and whitish... I bought mine at RM3.50 each, bought 10 from the Nyonya Makan listed in Facebook. They are from Ipoh so arranged to collect from them at their disclosed area...

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    1. Wah, so cheap but are them smaller ones? Are the fillings slightly sweet?

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