Pillow…

Perhaps I have not been shopping much elsewhere throughout the pandemic so I am quite used to it and will not venture elsewhere.

I saw this pillow dumpling (chin thow chang)…

…at where else, if not my neighbourhood fruit & vegetable sundry shop in the next lane and since the Duanwu Jie or the Dragon Boat Festival, commonly referred to as the Chang Festival is round the corner (June 3rd), I thought I would buy one and try to see if it is any good.

If I am not wrong, this type of dumpling is Cantonese but when I opened it, I saw a whole lot of peanuts…

I did hear somebody saying that such peanut dumplings are Hakka ones.

I’m afraid I did not really enjoy it – it was salty, not really tasty, in my opinion. There might be tiny bits of minced meat inside…

…but it did not do anything to enhance the taste, unfortunately.

I did buy these pillow changs before, a long long time ago and they tasted like lor mai kai…or the regular Hokkien chang, just that they came in a different shape. I enjoyed those, RM5.00 each at the time but not this one. I guess I will just go and buy my favourite changs from here when the festival comes around.

I also stumbled upon these paos (steamed dumplings)…

…at the mini-supermarket…

…in the next block.

They told me that somebody made them at home and sent them to the shop for sale but looking at all those trays (the big yellow ones they use to stack the bread at bakeries) with all kinds of filling, I find it quite hard to believe. That sure is a whole lot for one person to handle.

Anyway, I bought two…

…pork and chicken (RM2.60 each) and steamed them when I got home to try.

I was delighted to see that huge chunk of egg in the one with the chicken filling…

…one quarter of it, but they used ground/minced meat and I did not think it tasted great.

The pork…

…was very much nicer but again, they used ground/minced meat for the filling too and there was NO egg inside.

I would much sooner go for the cheaper (RM2.20 & RM2.30 each only) AND very much nicer NICER pork and chicken ones at the aforementioned sundry shop

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 while KIM TAK MINI SUPERMARKET is located along Jalan Ruby, in the block of shops on the left of the parking area – AH KAU CAFE (2.316346, 111.839861) and LOUIS BAKERY LW.Pattisserie (2.316411, 111.839847) are located in that same block to the extreme left .