Red Bean Kan Sui Chang

 Yesterday we went to AA pharmacy in Taman Desa to buy meds for the elderly folks and delivered it to them and received two Changs from them. This is a red bean Bean kan sui Chang. Kan sui is lye water or alkaline water.

 I prefer to eat kan sui chang with red bean paste in it than those Kan sui Chang without any red bean paste.

 This Chang has a lot of sweet red bean paste fillings - oh so tasty!

 The savoury Bak Chang does not use much dark soy sauce but it uses very pungent dried shrimps to stirfry the rice before wrapping the rice into a Chang so the taste is absolutely umami but a bit too salty.

 It has meat, mushrooms, beans and salted egg yolks as its fillings.

 Since we were at Taman Desa, we went to De Market supermarket to buy some vegetables. No queue to enter and also no queue to pay. Just need to write name, hp and get temperature scanned before entering the building and also supermarket. Not too crowded in the supermarket.

After that, we also did a pit stop at Giant supermarket at Desa Petaling at about 4 pm and when through the same process of writing name, hp and getting temperature scanned. No queue to enter and to pay. This Giant supermarket is spacious so plenty of spaces to do social distancing.

 Buy, buy, buy quite a long list because we have not been to any supermarkets since March 18, 2020.

 31 May 2020 d75 Sunday, 9.30 am - not my breakfast.

 11.05 am, I started my food with eating the only one remaining red bean paste deep friedough.

 11.16 am - my brunch of one wedge of tomatoes, one slice of bread and one fried egg.

 12.50 noon - not my lunch of all remaining old cucumber ribs soup with the remaining half portion of rice bought from Fatty Mok eatery on Saturday 30 May 2020 d74.

I "edward scissorhand" my hair until very short. Loving how light it feels. Cooling too.

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.

WG Vegetarian Bak Chang

Set Lunch at Medifoods, SS2, PJ with dishes of my choice at MYR 13.80 nett with no mayo on the raw julienned cabbage. The foc papaya and jicama is to be shared by 3 pax.

FOC Medifoods Tofu Fa with a minimum nett spend of RM15 from now to 31 Aug 2019 using a specific payment card. My friend said that it was the smoothest and tastiest tofu fa she has ever eaten.

The next day, my friends ate lunch at Medifoods again so this time I bought a vegetarian glutinous rice dumpling for MYR 5.30 nett.

From outside, it looks like the usual dumplings but without the meat and fatty bits. I expect it to have goat peas, chestnuts and mushrooms which it does have.

To my surprise, there is a piece of "fake" meat - tastes ok. The glutinous rice is soft so I like it and the taste is more on the sweet side - like sweet "mui choy". Next time I may try the vegetarian glutinous rice nyonya dumplings and also the vegetarian millet nyonya dumplings.

The taufu fa is out of stock so my friend need to go to Medifoods again this week to claim it.

The ingredients for this vegetarian dumpling that I bought. The name is misleading as although it is a savoury dumpling but it is not that salty.

Cintra Food Corner

Since the Moh Teng Pheow Nyonya Koay (kuih) shop was not opened, we walked to Lebuh Cintra to try Penang's best rice dumpling (bak chang) and famous yam cake.

This is the shop

As can be seen above, they sell all kinds of rice dumplings (bak chang). I wanted to try the Penang Nyonya Dumpling (MYR5.50 nett) but it has sold out so I chose another type.

Yam cake at MYR2.90 nett per portion with a lot of yam inside. I like it because it is soft, tasty, not oily and not too salty. The garnishing consists of crushed peanuts and diced spring onions.

Hakka bak chang (MYR6.20 nett). It is not too oily and is soft. My friends did not like it because they say it is too soft but the softness level is right for me.

It contains a piece of pork belly, black eyed peas, one whole salted egg yolk and one whole chestnut. Not too salty. I read a post on another blog that this shop has opened outlets in Puchong and Kota Damansara so if I am in those areas, I will go look for this shop.

Traditional Recipe Restaurant

Siew Yoke Mui Choy Chung - MYR6.80 with a whole salted egg yolk. I like to eat glutinous rice so this tastes fine to me although the rice that came into contact with the fatty bits of the pork is quite oily and I had to pick out all the fatty bits carefully before eating the dumpling.

This is the picture on the menu. There are other types of dumplings sold too so next time I know where to go for a dumpling fix.

This place also sells pan mee - MYR7.80 (small portion). There is a 5% service charge on the bill when we paid it.

They also sell savoury tau fu fa so I will be back to try it. They are located at 6, Jalan Kuchai Maju 19, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama.

Ba Chang

After reading Small Kucing's blog sometime ago about ba chang (Hokkien word meaning glutinous rice dumpling with meat), I suddenly feel like eating them so I bought one from the morning market today.

Savoury glutinous rice dumpling - MYR5

After removing the bamboo leaves

The dumpling has been wrapped tightly and cooked for a long time so it was diffficult to separate the glutionous rice from the other ingredients. This savoury dumpling has black eyed beans instead of mung beans. I like to eat both beans but I have not seen a dumpling with both type of beans in it.

There is quite a fair bit of salted egg yolk here. Other ingredients inside are pork meat, chinese mushrooms, and chestnuts.

Can you guess what this is? I have to remove all these carefully with my chopsticks because I don't like to eat these and most of them have kind of melted into the glutinous rice. After eating one dumpling, I was very full as it was quite big and the glutinous rice was very filling.