The result of intermarriage between early Chinese migrants and local Malays, Nonya cooking features heavy use of coconut milk, candlenut, galangal, belachan, sambal, tamarind, asam flower (torch ginger), lemongrass, and pandan leaves
The result of intermarriage between early Chinese migrants and local Malays, Nonya cooking features heavy use of coconut milk, candlenut, galangal, belachan, sambal, tamarind, asam flower (torch ginger), lemongrass, and pandan leaves
The Baked Pistachio Melt is a moist cake with a creamy lava center, not overly sweet and together with the accompanying scoop of Pandan ice cream, this is divine
The roti is similar to a popiah wrapper and dyed green with pandan. This light rice flour and turmeric crepe is filled with bean sprouts, radish, tofu, peanuts and orange toasted coconut and served with a simple pickled cucumber sauce
combine pandan leaves and water in a blender. For the CREPE. To prepare the crepe. Place a tablespoonful of chilled filling in a crepe and roll to form a log
Flavoured with fragrant pandan and stuffed with sticky sweet coconut, this ubiquitous kuih (a generic term encompassing many sweet and savoury bitesize cakes, cookies and snacks) is known back home by a range of names- kuih dadar (I assume referring to how the omelette-like crepe is fried), kuih ketayap as the batter surface takes on patterns similar to the Malay skullcap when cooking or the simpler kuih gulung due to how it is rolled
Then Kue Lumpur from Kalimantan, a sultanas (raisins) and young coconut pancake with vanilla and chocolate sauce followed by Dadar Gulung from all over Indonesia which was a banana crepe filled with coconut jam and pandan (tree leaf) sauce
Fried Pa Thong Ko ปาท่องโก๋ (also Chinese Donuts) with Green Pandan Custard, we asked if they were Jay/เจ (vegan) and apparently they are after asking twice
Sticky caramelised coconut filling, bundled up in soft pale green pandanpancakes. A fluffy and light yet moist sponge, delicately fragranced with pandan and coconut cream
