You are the only one…

There is a restaurant here that claims to be the only one in Malaysia that serves lokan…

I would not recommend it as we had a bad experience there recently when I went with my cousins, Diana from Miri and Eleanor from the UK. I had been there a few times before but that last visit would probably be the last one ever for me. It was featured on tv once though, on the Jalan Jalan Cari Makan show.

My daughter has always loved lokan a lot. When she was younger, I used to buy them at this place called Home Cook and it was quite cheap then – 50 sen each or something like that. Later, it became really bad…the taste, I mean – perhaps they changed the chef, so I stopped buying from there…and though the place is still in business, they do not make lokan anymore and I do not go there to eat either.

My missus can make very good lokan though…but it is quite labour intensive. You will have to clean the clams thoroughly to get rid of the sand and take out the flesh. The truth is you will need a whole lot of clams to get just a bit of the flesh. Then you mix it with minced meat and prawns or crab meat, onions and what not…and stuff the clam shells with that…

When that has been done, you will have to steam the stuffed clam shells…

When you want to eat the lokan, you will have to deep fry them and serve…

My sister-in-law can also make them. My daughter had a post on that in her old blog a long time ago when she dropped by the house and helped her make them.

Since it is a lot of trouble to make…and we are not going to that one restaurant in town that sells lokan, I guess we will not be having that very often…unfortunately.  SIGH!!!