White as snow…

My girl loves this – they call it pek koi, literally translated as white cake but on the packet, it says rice cake. We used to get it from China and we had to soak it overnight in order to soften it before cooking. I tried it once but no, it was still hard, tough like rubber, so I never bothered to do it again. After all, I can’t say that I am particularly fond of it.

Well, it seems that freshly-made ones are available now…

…at the wet markets or those shops selling vegetables and stuff like the one in the vicinity of the Dewan Suarah here, opposite Grace – the dianpianngu shop. There’s a shop near my house too but my missus says it’s available only twice a week – Thursdays and Sundays.

There are 5 pieces in one pack…

…with the double happiness character embossed on each and each pack is selling for RM2.00 though I have heard people saying that they have paid more elsewhere.

To cook, one would need to cut the pieces into thin slices like this…

…and one way to cook it would be like char kway teow. After all, kway teow is, in fact, rice noodles as well.

I just fried it with garlic, soy sauce, a bit of sugar and pepper, prawns and fish balls, egg and chopped spring onions…

…though I would want to add some taugeh (bean sprouts) as well but there wasn’t any in the fridge…

…so I had to do without that.

It was nice and there was enough for at least 3 or 4 plates of the same outside…

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…usually going for RM3.50 each.

Of course, it is up to each individual how one wants to cook it…

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…and I certainly would try some other recipes the next time I buy this to cook.