Jalan Hang Lekir Part 4 - Tai Kow Min Chinese Pancakes

This is the Tai Kow Min (or for easy rememberance - Thai Cow Mean) is actually chinese style crispy pancakes. Remember the food I mentioned in my previous post on Petaling Street and KL Chinatown ?
Tai Kow Min is also available in many wet markets, roadside stalls, night markets (pasar malam) and even food courts of modern shopping centres.

Here is how they make the Tai Kow Min. Some premixed flour bater is poured onto a flat metal mould on which some margarine has been added. A little sugar is sprinkled and the mixture is allowed to cook for a few minutes. When it is just ready, crushed roasted peanuts are sprinkled on top. When hot, it is extremely delicious and yummy. I love to eat it for breakfast with a cup of black coffee. Some prefer the skin to be thick while others like it thin and crisp, just like you have a choice of thick (pan) or crispy crust pizza. The crispy crust ones are smaller while the 'thick skined' ones are larger in diameter. I like it with an additional topping of canned sweet corn. Some stalls even use brown sugar in place of the white sugar. This was one of my favourite breakfast food as a kid growing up in a kampung.

Tai Kow Min has many names depending on what language or dialect you speak.

a) Bang Chang Kuih (Hokkien)
b) Apam Balik (Malay)
c) Jin Long Pau or Tai Kow Min (Cantonese)

It is a '1Malaysia' food enjoyed by all races. Anyone like to tell me the indian name or foreign language names of Tai Kow Min?

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Monochrome Weekly - Dome Shaped Structure at Sunway Hotel

A dome-shaped pillar at Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa, Malaysia.


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Bedazzled Christmas at the Curve, PJ

The theme this year at the Curve, Petaling Jaya is " Bedazzled Christmas at The Curve". This is Malaysia's first pedestrian style shopping mall.

At the Centre Court area inside the mall, spectacular Christmas trees were adorned with twinkling, bright lights and beautiful ornaments. The colour scheme here centres around gold and copper. There were the traditional Roman pillars and white columns and looking up I could see flying angels and cupids and beautiful sparkling chandelliars. I was spellbound by such a magnificient display of ambiance at the Curve. Sounds of Christmas carols and baroque instrumentals filled the air. One will not run out of gift ideas here. There are so many shops and outlets offering a wide variety of goods, from cookies to clothes, fashion accessories, home decor and electronics. To top it all, there's a SALE going on!

Outside at the Street Market, a Filipino Band entertain shoppers with their melodius singing. Her voice was so sweet singing the sentimental oldies that soon I found myself humming and singing /whispering along. I really liked them.

There are many stalls here at the Street Market with vendors selling Christmas gifts and realted items like ornaments and cookies. There are also many many food outlets, from western to oriental, along both sides of the street.

During the day, this place is decorated like a lush green garden. By nightfall, it is transformed into a winter wonderland. Look! There are many people already gathered here at the Piazza, waiting patiently to experience snow falling in tropical, equatorial Malaysia.

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Weekend Reflections # 14

A shop window display reflected on the glistening floor.


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Skywatch Friday Season 4 Episode 24

This picture was taken on 20th December 2009 at precisely 7.16pm, a day before the Winter Solstice. The location is Bandar Bukit Tinggi 2, Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. It was drizzling when I witnessed this beautiful sunset and luckily I had my camera with me. The next day it was rainy and dark, so there was no sunset.

This year the Winter Solstice occured at 5:47 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time Monday 21st December 2009. That is equivalent to 1:47 a.m. Tuesday 22nd December 2009, Malaysian Time. We celebrated Dong Zhi by eating tang yuan on this day.

On the winter solstice, the sun's maximum height above the horizon is at its lowest point in the sky for the year. It's the day with the fewest hours of sunlight this year.

On this Christmas Day, I like to wish everyone,

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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