: : Native Food Fair + Breakfast : :
This was meant to be Saturday’s posting but got a bit lazy on Saturday to do much postings on food eaten for that day.
The Native Food Fair was so-so. The only native food worth mentioning are the chicken, fish and pork bamboo dishes and the paku (fern) that were on sale. I was really hoping for some stir-fried daun ubi (wild tapioca leaves) but they didn’t have any. Oh well. Bought a bamboo filled with kampung chicken (village chicken) and another bamboo filled with lemang (glutionous rice).
After buying the stuff, Maylin, Melvin and myself then went off looking for breakfast. Nothing appetizing to eat at the Food Fair since it was a small do. We decided to go to Chong Chun Coffee Shop in Central Park.
We all ordered the Singapore Mee Siam (Singapore Siamese Mee). Bizarre name, huh? Well, it’s the first time I’ve had it so I’m totally clueless as to why the name is like so. Slightly sour and spicy at the same time, it’s a pretty light mee for breakfast time. After eating it we were still hungry so we ordered some dumpling soup from the Kolo Mee stall.
The dumpling @ kiew is wrapped in spinach wantan skin. In fact, all the noodles at this particular kolomee stall was green. The picture was taken after we walloped everything save for the last piece. Maylin had to remind to take a picture. So, a pitiful piece of dumpling is the end result.
The Mee Siam costs RM3.50 a bowl whereas the dumpling soup was priced at RM3.00 per bowl. Unfortunately, this place is not halal. Could smell the pork in the dumpling. Sorry guys.
Anyway, got back home after dropping up Maylin and Melvin. Granny was so happy to see the bamboo sticks and was already starting to take it apart.
This is Granny holding the thin stick of bamboo with the lemang inside. Bought the smallest one at the fair so that we didn’t have to eat it for days. Mum, notice the new haircut? She’s starting to cut it like you. :p
First, she cracked open the bamboo with a knife and gently pried the bamboo away. The lemang @ glutinous rice was wrapped in banana leaf before being stuffed into the bamboo for cooking.
Granny cut the lemang in slices as shown in the picture above. It actually had a burnt smell to it as the bamboo was burnt on the outer layer. Still, she preferred it this way. The lemang costs me RM3.
The next dish to be removed from the bamboo is the manok pansor @ chicken in bamboo. The lady that sold it to me mentioned that the chicken is ayam kampong @ village chicken. It’s called that because the chicken is allowed to run freely i.e. not penned up, so the meat is very sweet but slightly tough.
For this amount of bamboo chicken, I paid RM15 for the whole thing. A rip-off? Maybe but when you consider the time minding the bamboo under an open fire while the chicken is cooking, it’s not that expensive. The chicken was very tough and Granny suspected that it’s an old chicken (one that has stop laying eggs) that was stuffed into the bamboo. Also, it was extremely salty so she added more water and cooked the chicken under a slow fire to soften the meat. She also added in some potatoes to remove the salt. Said that she heard it from one of the neighbours that potatoe will reduce the salt in a soup.
Melvin mentioned that the bamboo chicken they got was okay and that it wasn’t that tough. Hmm… maybe it was just my luck I guess. Oh well. All the chicken was finished by dinner time yesterday. :p
