Bak Chang

On Saturday 1.jun.2024, we walked to Million Ocean for brunch.

*** Million Ocean ***

8.45 am - hot Cham MYR 2.30 nett

Cham ping MYR 3 nett

Shared curry noodles 

My Bak Chang MYR 8 nett

9.23 am - his steamed chicken thigh and roast pork MYR 12 nett.

*** Clear Frozen Food ***

6.04 pm - the red bean flat bun that I put into my freezer on wed is not frozen but is soft enough to be eaten directly without reheating it. Both of us also ate the remaining 2 of 8 tea eggs to finish them up.

Morning 44.10

*** The End ***

Sunny Food Republic Sri Petaling

On Friday 3.jun.22, went out to pick up food ordered via wataps from Sunny Food Republic Coffee Shop in Sri Petaling. I believe this is a new eatery.

Today is 端午节so 祝大家端午安康！Eaten any dumpling or bak Chang?

*** Sweet Red Bean Dumpling ***

Fri 27.may.22 - Kan Sui Zong aka 碱水粽 aka Jianshui Zong aka Kee Chang. The literal translation is alkaline water zong. The glutinous rice is processed with lye water so that is why the rice is yellow and has a springy texture. Lye water aka kansui aka 碱水 is a food-grade alkaline solution and sold as ready-to-use liquid in bottles. They mainly contains potassium carbonate K2CO3, a white alkaline salt that is soluble in water.

Bought 4 Kan sui zhong with red bean fillings at MYR 3 nett each from a makeshift stand outside a grocery convenient shop near Swee Hing coffee shop. I need to take note of the name of this shop next time.

The yellow glutinous rice is soft yet springy and translucent. Very nice texture.

The red bean fillings when eaten together with the yellow glutinous rice is very tasty.

*** Friday 3.jun.22 ***

There are many individual stalls in this coffee shop. I wataps a hp number I found online for this shop to place my order and transferred payment via TnG to another hp number so that they could pay the individual stalls on my behalf. Then went to pickup the order.

11.20 am - this is cham lor mihun yellow mee, a mix of prawn Mee gravy and loh Mee gravy. The stall put both types of gravy into one bag so we don't have to mix them ourselves. The loh Mee gravy is on the sweet side. The prawn Mee gravy is slightly spicy. Best of both worlds. A flavourful noodles. There are slices of pork with thick QQ braised skin in this noodle. Price is MYR 9 nett.

11.27 am - char kway teow mix yellow mee. We requested for non spicy so without spiciness the ckt tastes a bit too salty. Price is MYR 9 nett too. It has cubes of pork lard, cockles, prawns, chives and eggs in it. Bought an iced coffee mix tea drink at MYR 3.5 nett.

There are many different stalls so will be back to buy the food from them to try as takeaway next time.

Luk Dou vs Mei Dou

 Wednesday 24 June 2020 d99  - went out to takeaway food and saw the Bak Chang stall opposite Choy Kee coffee shop. Bought two savoury dumplings at MYR 6 nett each and two red bean dumplings at MYR 2.50 each.

Can you spot the Luk Dou (mung beans) in the Bak Chang in the photo above?

This Bak Chang is with Mei Dou (black eyed beans).

The Bak Chang with chestnuts and dried shrimps (har bee) costs a bit more, at MYR 7.50 nett. I didn't buy because I don't want to eat dried shrimps in Bak chang though I like chestnuts.

Vegetarian Nyonya Chung

This is the Vegetarian Nyonya Chang that I bought from Michelle Soo for MYR 7 nett each, received on Monday 11 May 2020 d55, kept frozen in the freezer and steamed for 30 minutes to enjoy for dinner at 6.26 pm on 17 May 2020 Sunday d61. The glutinous rice is evenly cooked and very smooth and soft, very fragrant.

The vegetarian fillings are made of hard tofu I believe and it is the sweetest due to more candied wintermelon used when compared to the Chicken Nyonya Chang and Pork Nyonya Chang. I detected a few soy beans from taucu beanpaste in the fillings. This is great news for vegetarians because they can now enjoy Nyonya Chang. If they have efficient and effective taste buds, they may even detect the spices used which are pepper and coriander spice powder used for the fillings.

This is a Chicken Nyonya Chang - it looks rather the same as the Vegetarian Nyonya Chang so vegetarians are also getting the same quality of Nyonya Chang from Michelle Soo.

*** 18 May 2020 Monday d62 ***

Saw this good deal on 9 May 2020 Saturday d53 so bought it for MYR 497.02 nett inclusive of delivery fees and only received it on 18 May 2020 Monday d62. There may be other promos online that are more affordable but we did not search for them because this price is good enough.

It includes this cook book with many recipes but we will just use it to cook soup.

*** 19 May 2020 Tuesday d63 ***

Start to use the pot - to cook just rice. lolx!

This pack of 1kg rice has been in the fridge for a few years so it is finally cleared now.

6.40 pm - Dinner of dumplings and little gem lettuce.

My share of 4 dumplings and some lettuce. Today I finished eating the IDC Musang King Ice Cream that has been in my freezer since Saturday 25 April 2020 d39 (24 days in the freezer). I also ate 8 of 10 Texas Chicken Honey Butter so 2 remaining now and will be cleared on Thursday.

Michelle Soo Authentic Nyonya Chang

After reading about the delicious Authentic Nyonya Chang from Malacca written by Claire, I quickly made my order. So I received them on Monday 11 May 2020 d55.

The sweet meat fillings are more than the glutinous rice.

I ordered Nyonya Chang with salted egg yolks and there is one whole salted egg yolk in each Nyonya Chang (MYR 8 nett). Very generous with the meat fillings. There is a vegetarian option for this Nyonya Chang at MYR 7 nett each and a chicken meat option. This dumpling is indeed authentic and tasty.

I also ordered Hokkien Bak Changs with Salted Egg Yolks at MYR 8 nett for one.

One whole salted egg yolk as well and the meat fillings with mushrooms taste like Hakka pork dish cooked with cloud ear fungus. Overall, it is a tasty savoury dumpling but a little bit more on the sweet side.

Also ordered rolled pineapple tarts - 20 pieces for MYR 20 nett per tub.

These are the dumplings in the box. Approved non-plastic strings. Can be kept in the freezer for 3 months. When defrost, steam for 15 minutes. Direct from the freezer, steam for 30 minutes. These are the instructions given.

Contactless Delivery all the way from Malacca - Delivery fees = MYR 20 nett.

These are the items available at the time when I placed my order.

Continuation of "These are the items available at the time when I placed my order." Min order 10 pieces of Chang. Delivery to Klang Valley is every Monday and Thursday. So if you are interested, please visit https://www.facebook.com/authenticnyonyachang/ for the contact number to place your order.

This is my order. Half of them are for my friend.

*** 12 May 2020 Tuesday d56 ***

Lunch at 11.07 am - Fried rice with spring onions, luncheon meat, waxed sausage (lap cheong), egg and little gem lettuce. Flavourful! Kept half of the above portion for dinner.

Too flavourful for me so I just try one tablespoon of this fried rice.

This is the vegetarian chung.

Kim Wah Bak Chang Delivery

Before yesterday, I only buy food delivery via Grab or Food Panda but after I read that Claire would go through the Ipoh food delivery on fb to see what's new there before she goes to sleep, I thought to myself perhaps I should also do that, find food delivery around my area in fb and I did that yesterday (Saturday 25 April 2020 d39) and ended buying too much food. lolx!

When I read about the Bak Chang on TM's article, I did not think that MYR 6 nett for one is expensive because last year, when I bought Bak Chang in June 2019, the price is already MYR 7 nett but I wanted to eat Bak Chang but don't know where to get one delivered to me so when I saw this photo on fb, I immediately contacted the person to arrange to buy 10 and get them delivered directly to my doorstep. According to the fb post, these bak chang are sold at Golden Kim Wah, Damansara Kim. As I used Grab to pick up the dumplings and delivered them to me, the delivery fee is MYR 19 nett but it is worth it in my opinion.

For every purchase of 10 bak chang, the seller will give 1 nyonya dumpling foc. So I bought 6 salted egg bak chang (MYR 7.5 nett), 2 nyonya bak chang (MYR 7 nett) and 2 dried oysters bak chang (MYR 8 nett) and received 1 nyonya dumpling foc. I gave half away so I should have bought more because the bak chang is very tasty, not salty and with lean pork and a separate piece of pork fat which can be easily removed and the glutinous rice is not too soft.

Delivery 1: The above photo is copied from the seller's post. I did not take any photos of the 11 glutinous rice dumplings that I bought because I was too busy doing something else when one dumpling was being eaten and I took one bite to find that it is delicious. I will definitely buy again if stay-at-home is extended to end of May 2020.

Left: Crispy Apam - MYR 5 for 3 pieces. Very crispy with peanuts bits and sweet corns as fillings 

Right: Sweet Apam - MYR 10 for 8 pieces - very crispy too - taste like kuih kapit with coconut flakes as fillings. The coconut taste is very fragrant for this sweet apam.

Delivery 2: This seller will deliver Apam Balik to my area only on Saturday so when I read the fb post on late Friday night, it was too late to order so at 8 am yesterday morning, I quickly contacted the seller to ask if I could place a last minute order and luckily she agreed. So I was happy to received my 4 types of Apam Balik. The seller's father made these Apam Balik and he has a stall in a coffee shop in Pandan Perdana. I did not ask her what the coffee shop name is.

Thick Apam - MYR 2.50 per piece for peanut and sweet corns fillings, MYR 2.30 per piece for only peanut fillings.

My order which is 4 pieces thick apam peanut corn, 5 pieces thick apam peanut, crispy apam 6 pieces and sweet apam 8 pieces cost MYR 41.50 nett so delivery fees is waived for orders over MYR 40 nett. So tasty! So satisfying because I ate 3 crispy apam and 3 sweet apam at one go. Am going to give away the thick apam with peanut and corn fillings.

Delivery 3: I read about beepit in Stacy's article and then I saw IDC using beepit for order online and delivery and I saw Musang King ice cream so I bought over MYR 150 to get free delivery.

6 x 500 ml ice cream to last me till end of May 2020.

These are the flavours I selected: Musang King, Rum & Raisin (I have been looking for this flavour for a long, long time and Baskin Robbins, Hagen Daaz, Inside Scoop, Picolli Lotti - all of them do not have this flavour), Affogato, Triple Chocolate, Chocolate Salted Caramel Almond, Strawberry and Cream. Total price is MYR 163 nett. Indulgence! But I am giving away 3 of them.

Delivery 4: This lady is a home baker (Cakesbymiac) and the comments mentioned that her banana cakes are delicious. Since we love to eat banana cakes without any artificial flavours, I bought 2 loaves each - only banana at MYR 23 nett and banana with walnut and cranberries at MYR 28 nett for a total of MYR 102 nett so I get free delivery for my place is within 8 km of her place and I order more than 3 loaves of cakes. She has other items on her menu too. Next time I will order those items.
When I placed my orders, she was just baking this batch of banana loaves so I received my order in the evening when they are just fresh out of the oven. I am also giving away two loaves.

Looks so tasty!

So soft, no artificial flavours. Taste reminded us of the MalaiKo we love eating at Tim Ho Wan but with the lovely sweet fragrance of bananas. Will definitely order again from her.

Delivery 5: Kaya, Soft Buns, Hainanese Soft Bread and Kampung Eggs from this fb seller. Delivery above MYR 50 nett foc so I bought 6 x MYR 4.50 of Kaya (MYR 27 nett), 2 x MYR 3 of Soft Buns (MYR 6 nett), 2 loaves of Hainanese Soft Bread x MYR 5 = MYR 10 nett, and 1 tray of 30 Kampung Eggs = MYR 30 nett for a total of MYR 61 nett.  This fb seller is very dedicated, he delivered all the items to me in the drizzle. The kaya tastes so creamy, so coconut-ty, so pandan-ny, so egg-gy and so so sweet *gasp* and the big soft buns are so soft and fluffy - a far cry from those sprouted grain bread and wholemeal bread that I always eat. I am giving away half the kaya and bread.

Delivery 6: This is our shared lunch: 6 deep fried sui gao at MYR 7 nett and Siew Yoke dry Wanton noodles at MYR 9 nett. Foc delivery. This fb seller packed all the food in this convenient paper containers so it was easy to handle. The deep fried sui gao are still crispy when we received the meal.

I bought these food as well from the same fb seller during lunch to be eaten as dinner but ended up eating bak chang so they all went into the fridge: Dry curry chicken wanton mee (MYR 9 nett) and char siew rice (MYR 7 nett) so a total of MYR 32 nett.

I also ordered and paid for tomorrow's lunch from the same fb seller: Nasi Lemak Fried Chicken Thigh (10), Deep Fried Wanton (7), Siew Yuk Rice (9), and Dry chicken curry rice (9), total MYR 35 nett so I paid MYR 67 nett today via transfer because want to be contactless.

My portion of lunch.

I bought other food too that will be delivered the next day (Sunday 26 April 2020 d40):

Delivery 7: 12 pieces Pulut Tai Tai at MYR 10 nett and 2 bottles of Kaya at MYR 15 nett from this fb seller with MYR 5 delivery charges so the total is MYR 30 nett.

Delivery 8: 3 boxes of jelly at MYR 15 nett per box and 4 pieces of mini sausage puffs at MYR 5 nett from this fb seller with foc delivery for total amount above MYR 50 nett.

Delivery 9: Date of delivery is 4 May 2020. 500 g yam layered cake and 500 g pandan layered cake from the famous and original Regent Pandan Layer Cake House in Klang so it is MYR 32 x 2 = MYR 64 nett plus MYR 13 nett delivery fees for a total of MYR 77 nett. This group buy is posted here in fb - order has closed.

So when Yan is happily buying many clothes online, I just spent one day and bought too much food online. lolx! But I am giving away those that I won't be able to finish so it is ok to buy too much food to share.

Breakfast for two pax - 3 eggs omelette with mushrooms, corns, luncheon meat and spring onions. Topped with raw tomatoes slices.

My portion: I added one Cheddar Bay Biscuits, star fruits, guava and pineapple to the omelette. Very tasty!