Them, too…

This…

…came from them, too – the guys behind that grilled chicken sandwich…

…that I thought was pretty good. As a matter of fact, I’ve gone back to buy again, despite the price, as my girl seemed to enjoy it so when I happened to be around there, I would grab one for her for her breakfast.

When I saw it the first time, I did not know what it was but I could tell it was from those same people because of the logo embossed on top. I grabbed two to take home and try and we quite enjoyed them. Only when my girl told me those were dorayakis did I realise it was that thing that the cartoon character, Doraemon, always eats in the TV show. I went and googled and this was what I found about it: a dorayaki is made of two hand-sized American-style pancakes sandwiched together with a sweet filling, the most popular of which is azuki red beans.

Yes, the ones we had that first time had red bean paste inside…

…but the filling was different from the usual red bean paste, what we call or tau sar that we find in buns and all the rest, not so fine (at times, I could detect the presence of a red bean or two) and not so black and most importantly, not so sweet. Both my daughter and I thought they were quite nice but not anything that would get me running back for more.

Well, I saw them again the other day and I decided to buy some…

…so I would be able to blog about it. I just took without looking and what I did not realise at the time was that there were different kinds of filling in the dorayaki.

I tried the peanut…

…and I was rather disappointed that it had peanut butter inside, not freshly crushed peanut like in our local apam balik. The vanilla wasn’t anything to get excited either. My missus had that and she said it was some cream like what we would find in cake icing. Other than that, I was wishing the whole time that the pancake could be softer – it was a bit on the hard side, not that spongy.

All thing considered, I felt the price, RM1.60 for that little piece, was a little on the high side. It reminded me of the thick version of the apam balik which I am sure would be very much nicer even though I am never a fan of those – I prefer the thin and crispy ones, only 70 sen a piece the last time I bought any at the stall in the next lane round the corner from my house.

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.