Nyonya kuih

Wedding day lunch, originally uploaded by lilsQuirr3l.

Yum yum..I was listening to the Hokkien Podcast by John Ong and I started to think about all the wonderful nyonya kuih. The nyonya kuih in Penang are so much better than those in PJ or KL. In fact, even those nyonya kuih sellers in PJ are mostly from Penang. When mum was working at States ( I think it's currently called New Town), we used to buy onde-onde from this old lady who has a small stall at a corner Chicken Rice shop. Unfortunately, when she got older, she was too tired to make them anymore so she stopped selling them since onde-onde takes up lots of work.

In Penang, we used to buy nyonya kuih from an Indian man who carries the kuih in a basket at the top of his head. He was selling kuih around our neighborhood at Batu Lanchang ever since before I was born but he passed away a few years before I came here. Now, we usually buy nyonya kuih from Pulau Tikus market. We've tried those from several different markets but I still like those from Pulau Tikus best.

The picture was taken during my cousin's wedding lunch. We served a variety of Western desserts - fruit cake, chocolate cake err..I can't remember the other two. The nyonya kuih varieties are ang ku (the salty one), kuih talam (I usually eat the white part only :P), purple kuih bengka (not one of my favorite), errr...I can't remember the other two. Hehe..I only know how to eat them! Too bad these are the kuihs which we can never get here in the States. That reminds me, I better get the recipes from my grandma the next time I see her...delicacies like these are getting rare.