Dr Chen from Penang tagged me. Penang is well-known for its Assam Laksa, Five-spice pork and now durians, thanks to the durian feast Malayian PM Abdullah Badawi hosted in honour of our PM Lee Hsien Loong's visit. Now in Siingapore, some enterprising durian sellers are touting Penang durians which PM Lee ate! tsk tsk tsk ..... I doubt those are the real things.
Anyway, I would be meeting Dr Chen in July when I go visiting in Penang. Oh no, not for a medical consultation, but to meet up with Malaysian bloggers - LB, Dr Bernard Chan and Dr Chen. Yeah!!! I will try to locate the Penang durians, taste them and write a review on them. I am going to gorge myself silly on delectable Penang food! haha!
So here's my favourite : Shanghai Dimsum
Shanghai Steamed buns (xiaolongbao 小笼包 )
Shanghai Fried Buns ( sheng jian bao 生煎包)
Shanghai Onion Pancake (chongyoubing 葱油饼)I have the good fortune to taste lots of delicious food from many parts of China on many of my business trips there. I get to eat many weird food too. hehe.....
I'm not a big eater, I prefer small dainty portions of food. I don't like too many meat dishes and please don't ever invite me to buffets! I love dimsum. Hong Kong Dimsum is popular and well-known in the world. But I fell in love with Shanghai Dimsum when I was there. Their buns are so skillfully made and taste out of this world!
The Shanghai steamed bun is a unique masterpiece. Freshly minced pork is wrapped in a thin piece of dough skin, sealed by nimble fingers with complicating pleats and steamed. The steaming causes the juice from the meat filling to be caught in the thin skin.
Picking up a bun with chopsticks from the bamboo steamer requires skill. If you break the skin, the delicious soup in the bun will be wasted. There is a unique way of eating these steam buns too. You bite a small piece of the skin, suck the soup out, put some young shredded ginger and vinegar on the 'dejuiced' bun and then pop it into your mouth. Ohhhh.... heavenly!
You can find a huge variety of dimsum treats in China. The simple dumpling has more than a hundred types of fillings!
* Meme Topic : What is your favorite food in your state or country?
Find some info about the food & show delicious pictures of it.
Tag FIVE people. Do if you want to increase traffic to your blog!
1) kev-walkabout
2) arzhou
3) empress bee (of the high seas)
4) amy
5) jenn in holland
You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below.
Mybabybay loves Asam Laksa from Penang, Malaysia
JustMyThoughts loves Penang Char Koay Teow
My Lil Venture loves Laksa Sarawak
Monterssorimum loves Teluk Intan Chee Cheong Fun
Chinnee loves Melaka Wan Tan Mee
PeimunLeah loves Hakka Lei Cha
Hui Sia loves Crispy duck skin from China
Karen loves Pan Mee
Simple American loves Cheese Enchiladas
Nicole Tan loves Char Tau Kueh
velverse loves Otak-Otak
Giddy Tiger loves Dim Sum
may loves Roti Bakar
Selba loves Gado-gado
Chen loves Satay*
eastcoastlife loves Shanghai Buns
**The End**
46 comments:
Yeah, I love siew loong paus too. Funnily enough, I didn't know about them until last year!!! You say ulu or not ulu?!! Very ulu! But now that I've tried them, I am in love with them already, and I can't wait to try them out your style, dipping with ginger and vinegar!! How come no one told me that before?!!
lb,
You ate siew loong paus when you went back to Malaysia only, right? Yah, ulu! hehehe.....
There is a certain way to eat them. I think many peole don't know about it. I learnt so many things about eating dimsum and some Chinese dishes when I was in China. Very interesting. It really enhances the taste of the food!
ahhhh.... talking about food makes me hungry!
Can't wait to taste those xiao long paus.. ;)
Argh, I have a weakness for dimsum, and you just made me hungry again, just right after lunch even!
Suddenly that spaghetti I planned to have for dinner tonight just doesn't seem that good an idea anymore...
Everything Shanghai! I like the Shanghai Onion Pancake... Yum! I didn't know there's a special style of eating siew loong paus. I would just pop the whole thing into my mouth in two or three bites. *grin*
I love siewloongpau too but I have come across a few that I find a tad salty. Don't quite take to the onion pancake, though.
Ya...ya.....get lokter chen to bring you on a gastronomic tour of Penang. She and I...we can eat and yak and eat and yak for 3 to 4 hours! :D
absolutely love siew loong paus! we took LB to have his first bite of one last July, heheh! so yummy with ginger and vinegar. must hunt down siew loong paus here in Sydney, I'm starting to crave for them after seeing that photo of yours!
Siew Loong Paus!! My fave too!! But I haven't tasted 生煎包 before.
Oh, rupa-rupanya ECL go to Penang during July to meet up with them. No come meet me. *sad* Hahaha!! Joking, joking!! ;)
Hi ECL,
I would love to play but I don't know how to copy the list keeping all the links with it. Is there a secret?
Your post about Shanghai buns is wonderful and is making me very hungry!
Where do you usually have your Shanghai buns in Singapore?
mamabok,
Come back to Singapore, I bring you to eat the best ones in Singapore!
sicarii,
hehe....
ahhh... I have a new dimsum kaki!
rinnah,
There are lots more varieties of Shanghai dimsum, I have no space to review them. Another time. :)
Pop the whole thing into your mouth? And let the soup burst (explode) inside your mouth at the first bite? Isn't the soup hot? My xiaolongbaos must arrive steaming hot at my table.
hehe... to each his own style lah!
hi nyonyapenang,
lokter chen can yak for so long and so much arh! hehehe....
Looking forward to the tcss trip! :D
May,
Another siew loong paus fan! So you're the one who brought lb out of his ulu cave by introducing him to siew loong paus!
Yah, I agree with you. Must find siew loong paus in Sydney. So that when I go to visit you, can still have my favourite siew loong paus to eat! hehe.....
day-dreamer,
Wah! Drawing out more and more siew loong paus fansee! See how popular it is!
If I go KL, you want to meet up with me? Sure? :)
jenn in holland,
Welcome to the fun world of memes and meet new bloggers!
I have sent you an email on how to do it!
oceanskies,
Quite a number of places.
I like the buns at
Lao Beijing
Koo Kee (Parkway Parade Branch)
Hong Kong Tea House
a few small Shanghai eateries
What an array of dishes I've never heard of! One hears about so many different things when I visit here.
Captain Picard,
getting confused? hahaha...
There is lots of fascinating and unique things waiting to be discovered in the East.
thanks for the tag, will do this later in the day!
smiles, bee
Hey ECL, I updated my blog with your MEME already :)
Wah so yummy!!!!
I don't think I've tasted siew loong pao b4... Me ulu too! :x
Dim sum is heaven!
empress bee (of the high seas),
Thanks.
Hope you will make more blogger friends!
arzhou,
Thanks.
That was a great meme you did with a recipe included! Hope your taggees are gonna give their best. :)
kyh,
You have not tried siew loong paus? aiyooo.... must try. You come to Singapore lah, I bring you go eat! :)
I think siu loong bao oni came to M'sian shores a coupla years ago... that explain's LB's ulu-ness kkkk...
angel,
Oh .... I did see siew loong paus when I was in KL last year. Haven't tried them though, so don't know if they are up to standards. hehe.....
Time now is 11.30pm. I look at the pictures in this blog and I suddenly feel extremely hungry.
Meh :(
Anyway, looking forward to your report on Penang durians! I love the food in Penang. Whenever I drive up there, I will spend RM20 on hawker food in one go. I mean ... one bowl of Laksa is never quite enough, is it? Consider how long the drive is!
I love XLB and Pan fried buns. Onion pancake - too much very jelat maybe coz too much flour :O
Ya lah, after I saw the nasi padang portions three of you(you with KM and shilpa) ate, I know you small eater lah, you. You eat buffet sure lugi wan!
Hello Wilfrid,
:) .... great dimsum huh.
I'm sure my Penang friends are going to bring me to some great eats! Yes, driving up to Penang is no joke, man! Sure have to eat more lah! hahaha....
I haven't been to Penang for a long time, so this time I'm going to take a good look and wolf down as much food as I can! hahaha.....
I never have success when I try to 'suck the juice' out of the bao.
It is simply too hot +.+"
tigerfish,
Yeah! You are another xlb lover!
The onion pancake may be a little too floury, but done by a good chef it is crispy and savoury. It is a simple dish. It depends on how skilful the chef is.
yalor, I lugi when I eat buffet. After 2 plates of food, I surrender! hehehe....
yenjai,
You have delicate lips! hahaha....
i had ban mian with dumpling as substitute for siew loong pau after reading your post.
awwww ..... misti!
We should have a Shanghai dimsum together, one of these days, with oceanskies. :)
I love the Hong Kong make chee cheong fun and the embedded fish you tiao. And host of other Guangzhou dim sum.
http://henryleongblog.blogspot.com/
henry,
I feel that Hong Kong dimsum is not that cool now. Yes, although they are coming up with more new creations.
ahhh.... dimsum is just so right for me. :)
Sure I wanna meet up with you all! But erm, I'm not in KL now. :(
Resting at hometown Ipoh currently.
day-dreamer,
Ahhhh.... Ipoh! Nice place. Heard so much about it. I must visit it one day. hmmmm....
Having school holidays? When going back to KL?
Drool at the xiao long pao
i want i want i want
giggle at what nyonya pg said..
tat time her family tot we went for buffet dinner, cos she missing in action for > 3 hours. Mana tau we only yak and makan at the roadside hawker stalls. LOL
chen,
At the roadside hawker stall nia, talk for >3hours! You two sure can yak! hehehe...
That shows what a good companion you are. Soooo looking forward to my Penang trip!
Will be back in KL next year. :)
day-dreamer,
Next year?! :(
Shanghai has good food. Got to get over there soon.
Simple American,
Yes, not only Shanghai, but Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing too! :)
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