You all know about the yummy chicken pies from Aroma Bakery already as I have posted on them here…and here…but all this while, I’ve been told that their curry puffs are very nice too. However, I was made to understand that they did not make them themselves – the curry puffs were homemade and they would deliver them to the bakery to be sold at their premises.
I went there a number of times but they were always sold out…and recently, a young girl at the the shop said that they had stopped making so there would not be any more for sale from then on. But the other day, I heard that they were back in business…so I made a bee line to the shop. See! It pays to be patient and keep on trying and trying and not to give it!
Finally, I got the curry puffs that I had been wanting to try for so long…
They were selling them at 80 sen each and I must say that they did not look very nice, coming in all kinds of distorted shapes.
The pastry was very nice – baked, not fried…but the filling had very little meat, mostly potatoes. It tasted good though, slightly spicy and nice. Well, considering that they were only 80 sen each, I would not think that there was any cause for complaint. They were definitely better than the curry puffs I had bought from some other bakeries in town.
On the whole, tastewise, I would say that the ones I had in Sungai Petani (Kedah) were much nicer. Those were huge and had a lot of meat in their filling…but they were fried, not baked.
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The prices varied but the one that I liked best – their chicken potato was RM1.40 each, almost double the price.
All in all, I’ve yet to find any that can rival my favourite curry puffs – baked, not fried and made with short crust pastry…from that little shop in Kai Joo Lane in Kuching, the one renowned for its meat pastry (baked char siew pao). Sigh!!!
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 