Got it all wrong…

We liked the scallop siew mai so much that I made up my mind to go back to the shop and buy some more and at the same time, I also wanted to buy the other two varieties to try – my missus said there were three altogether.

However, when I got there the other morning, there was only one pack of the scallop ones left so without a second thought, I grabbed it right away. Unfortunately, there were only two packs of one other variety…

…available. Initially, I did not think it looked very nice – in fact, I had no idea what it was and I could not make head or tail out of it but in the end, I went ahead and bought a pack. As they say, we wouldn’t know unless we try.

This was what it looked like inside, frozen…

I would not say it looked very alluring and after steaming, it…

…did not look much better.

It tasted all right, much nicer than what it looked like…

…but I must say that the scallop ones had an edge over these – those were much nicer. I peeled off the layers to have a closer look and I found that underneath the green siew mai skin was a bean curd sheet…

…and wrapped inside that was some meat or fish in a nice QQ fish ball kind of texture.

This was very early in the morning before the ladies got up and I did not know that I had got it all wrong until my girl woke up and came downstairs for breakfast. “That’s bread crumbs all over it,” she said. “You are supposed to fry it!!!” Oh dear!!! How was I to know? They did not say anything in that white label/sticker, no instructions whatsoever about how to prepare it.

Well, I still have 8 more pieces in the freezer so when the time comes, we can fry those to see if it is any better that way. There were 20 in a pack (RM20.00 each, a ringgit more than the scallop ones) but these were so big and I could not fit them all into my mini-steamer so I decided to save some for another day. That was why I had a few left.

Fingers crossed, they will be very much more to our liking when done the correct way.

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