Local Foods

1. Tangyuan

On 22 December, like usual, we celebrated Winter Solstice which is one of the Chinese traditional celebration festivals. Chinese is well known for their mouth-watering foods and tangyuan is one of the foods. Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice flour and it can have different colours depend on the colouring. My mom made three colours of tangyuan which are red,white and green. Actually, tangyuan is tasteless because it is made of flour but what really makes tangyuan such appetizing is its soup. Its soup is ginger flavoured which must be eaten together with tangyuan. Due to modernization, tangyuan has been modified to have fillings such as bean paste and black sesame. After that, we prayed our ancestors with tangyuan and other dishes. My mom said that winter solstice celebration is more important that chinese new year and after you ate tangyuan,you will grow one year old.

Dishes for praying ancestors

A pot full of tangyuan

2. Chee Cheong Fun (rice noodle roll)

A thin roll of rice noodles which has shrimp, pork and sesame as its fillings. In Cantonese, chee cheong fun means pig intestine noodle. Teluk Intan, a city which is near to my hometown, is well-known for its chee cheong fun because its chee cheong fun is more unique from the others. Special chee cheong fun which only can be found in Teluk Intan has more fillings and bigger size, that's why it is so scrumptious.

3. Doraeyaki Pancake

This is the pancake which is eaten by Doraemon (it is actually japanese pancake). What makes it so special from other pancakes is its simpleness, appearance and of course Doreamon. It has four or five fillings which are peanut, strawberry, chocolate and others. One is sold for RM 1.50. The one which I bought is peanut filled.

4.Curry Chicken Bread

A big bread with curry chicken sealed inside it. It is also known as Golden Pillow because the bread is baked into golden brown colour, its appearance looks like a pillow and its size is slightly larger than Ipad. The curry chicken is kept inside the bread so it will remained warm although you have left it for a long time after you bought it. The texture of the bread is very soft and its surface is crispy like baked bread. Meanwhile, the curry chicken is warm and it tastes very well when serves together with bread. Kampar curry chicken bread is so famous until it is being sold in Kuala Lumpur,capital of Malaysia. The prize for small curry chicken bread is RM 28 (USD 8.90), big one is RM 46 (USD 14.60).