What is..

What is..

What is...buah keluak?
Buah keluak is a small fruit, if I may call it a fruit. It has a husk, shaped mostly like a stunted small coconut, with the average size of no bigger than a water chestnuts. This fruit will find it's way onto our dining table especially during festive seasons, and during special occasions. Normally cooked in tons of pepper and chilis and other spices, with chicken pieces, the fruits' husk will have to be knocked to create a small opening so that the inner fruit, the meat, so that when kuah can get in while cooking and also we easily eat the meat. The husk, of course, cannot be eaten. Triple sedap food for me, although, I realize that I then to visit the loo more often after eating this dish.

What is...Bak with chilis and timun?
Slices of boiled pork meat, always with a little layer of fat though, mix with the mixture of pounded chilis, onions, belacan, and others, and slices of cucumber. Simple, a little like rojak, just mix all the prepared ingredients, once you have them ready. Then squeeze enough lime juice over the dish. Very nice and addictive!

What is ....Kuih bongkong?
A traditional kuih, made of mixture of flour and santan slowly heated over fire. Once smooth and thicken, an amount of the paste will then be place in the middle of the banana leaf, making a shallow well in the middle. Mixture of chopped/grated gula melaka and gula pasir (granulated sugar) are then place in the well. Then banana leaf is then wrapped, and held together, in this modern era, using staples. Tradition will require the use of lidi. The ready wrapped kuih is then steam for a certain period of time, to melt the sugar. When eaten hot, you will be in seventh heaven.

What is ....Sek Bak?
Meat, usually pork and chicken, cooked in spices like star anise, cinnamons sticks, serai, mainly, and lots of touyou. This is dish dark in colour, again, traditional in nature, but not uncommon. Nice, but not to be eaten too much, too often.

What are all these? Dishes that I had fed my tummy with this week, until today. Wonder what's the special dish my mother's going to cook tomorrow, since it will be the day my younger brother's departing for his final year abroad for studies. I just waiting..eagerly. No pix. no Pix..