Egg toast cups

Tired of the usual breakfast of eggs on toast? Try this : Trim crust off a slice of wholemeal bread. Butter on the under-side and press it into a muffin pan or small metal bowl. Spoon some cooked spinach and chopped ham onto the bread. Then break a a small egg into it. Sprinkle a bit of chopped onions, ground black pepper and soy sauce and bake in 180 degrees for 20 mins.

One NOT SO HEALTHY, but..... YUMMY treat!!

If you go to the roadside 'goreng pisang' (banana fritters) stall, you get the usual deep fried sliced bananas, sweet potatoes & yam. I came across this stall in Pandan Indah (in front of the former Fajar Dept store, now The Store).

Guess what this is !!

"KREPEK DAUN BAYAM " (Spinach Leaf Fritters)

Take note, though... you don't always get it at the stall because they operate alternate weeks ('time share' with another vendor). I got it on the Nike event Sat (22 Mar 2008). They will also not fry this during the 'cempedak' season, ie. when they fry cempedak, they can't fry the spinach -- something to do with a difference in temperature!!

Brickfields food adventure

During the Chinese New Year, I decided to take a stroll along Brickfields and I stumbled upon a place which sells 'puttu atta' and 'puttu ragi'.

Well, most of us are familiar with 'puttu mayam' - those strings of beehoon-like snack served with coconut shavings and brown sugar.

Well, there's also 'puttu bambu (bamboo)' where the powdery white rice mix is steamed with a few raisins in bamboo sections and 'puttu piring' where the mix is steamed in slightly flat metal plates with dark brown sugar inside.

Now, there's 'puttu atta' where the mix is wholemeal and 'puttu ragi' has a darker mix made of ragi (not sure what that is). Communication with the staff was difficult, punctuated with lots of head shaking and smiling.

However, they were nice enough to let me take some photos. One even offered to pose for me!! Guess they are used to 'tourists' (ha, ha)!

Notice the unique steaming 'towers' too! The mix is stuffed into the long towers and placed over the base in the stove.