Would you believe it if I tell you that this song by Peter, Paul and Mary was actually banned on national radio? To me, it sounds like some kiddie song but some smart aleck somewhere interpreted it as having some drug connotations. Well, this isn’t going to be a post about the song or the singers nor is it going to be about dragons and drugs…but about curry puffs! LOL!!!
I love the ones from the char siew pao shop at Kai Joo Lane in Kuching…and they used to sell very nice home-made ones at one of the stalls at Rejang Park. I also managed to buy some from that Chopsticks chicken rice shop that were not too bad either – they sometimes have them in the morning. These would be the baked ones with curry-flavoured meat inside.
I never liked those fried ones at the Malay stalls until I came across these…
They do not look very nice, that I would admit…but the pastry tastes good and the potatoes inside have that very nice flavour of curry. The best part, of course, is the fact that they are selling them at 4 for RM1.00 only. I got them from my regular Bandong kuih-muih stall a while back and I kept going back for more. By the way, if you’re heading there too, do not buy those that are selling at 3 for RM1.00. They say that they are more expensive because the pastry is nicer as it is layered, but it does not taste as nice and the sweet potato filling has hardly any curry taste at all.
Talking about kuih-muih, I also tried these the other day…
They’re something like serimuka with pulut (glutinous rice) on the bottom half…and the custard layer at the top is made from durian. Not bad, not bad at all…and you can get those at 3 for RM1.00.
And since we’re talking about food in the Bandong area here, the food stall that opens only around lunchtime is really doing very well these days. It is getting very crowded if you go during lunch break and should you go a little later at around 1 or a bit later, most of the things would have been sold out!
I am not surprised by the good response it is getting as the food is nice and relatively cheap, like these assam prawns that I bought from there…
Those were all they had left, so I just sapu habis (swept it clean)…for only RM14.00 – one big bowl of prawns which would cost some RM20.00 a kilo at the market – uncooked. They were very fresh, the flesh very firm and sweet…but I found it a bit too (chilli) hot, though yummy.
I bought these ladies’ fingers for only RM3.00…
…and together with the sup tulang (bone soup), also RM3.00, that would make a complete mean for 3 or 4 persons…
Not bad at all, don’t you think? Value for money…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 