Contrasts…

I do enjoy this Chinese kuih (cake)…

We call it bak koi, bak meaning meat and koi is cake.

There is the yew chang (fried shallots) on top…

…and the minced meat sandwiched in between…

…the layers of egg cake.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this is our very simple Chinese steamed egg cake (鸡蛋糕) or what we call kay nerng kor, steamed not baked and that is, in fact, slightly sweet with the light fragrance of egg which is why there is this contrast between its sweetness and the savoury taste of the meat in it. For this very reason, the ladies in the house are not particularly fond of it – they are not that comfortable with the contrast between the sweet and the savoury in the cake.

On the other hand, I enjoy it a lot and I would surely buy when I see any at the fruit and food stall near my house. I did blog about it once in 2016 and it was only RM5.50 then. Now, it is RM6.00 for a quarter which means that if I buy one whole cake, it would only be RM24.00 – so much cheaper than all those fancy cakes at the bakeries around town and I do enjoy it…

…a whole lot more, I must say.

Of course, the ones that my auntie in Kuching makes…

…are a whole lot nicer, no scrimping on the meat and the fried shallots but this is good enough to appease my craving once in a while. I have not seen it being sold anywhere else around town, only here, so I don’t know if there are others elsewhere that is nicer.

SWEE HUNG (2.316161, 111.840441) is located along Jalan Ruby, in the block of shops on the right – next to a hair salon at the extreme end…and on the other end, to the left is the Kim Won Chinese Medical Store and Mini-supermarket.