Sweet Potato Dessert

Taking a break from seeing number of rrn operons. A little too late to eat anything heavy but Ping is starting to get hungry again. That's the bad thing about working late into the night - Ping tends to get hungry = eating more than regular and not moving as much since working late is usually writing or analyzing data. So Ping went looking into the fridge to hunt for something light - Huan Chu T'ng (Potato soup).
Ping was craving for it during the weekend and made a pot of it (only 2 potatoes and still have to eat for so many days!!). It is a pretty simple dessert but the most important ingredient - gula Melaka - is not available here in Lansing. Boo! Gula Melaka (or theng) is actually palm sugar but the one that is made in Malaysia has a dark coloring and taste better than the seashell shaped palm sugar they sell here at Oriental Mart. To make the dessert, just boil water and ginger, dissolve the gula Melaka in the water and finally, add sweet potato and simmer until the potato is soft. Easy leh. Hehe..but whenever Ping is at home, Ping never cook it because ahmah and mummy will do all the work. Bleh. This last trip home, Ping wanted some and mummy made it the next day!! Because of the dark colored gula Melaka, the huan chu t'ng mummy made looks much darker. In fact, if Ping sees one like the one Ping makes in M'sia, Ping would most likely think that it is not very good - like chia chia.

Ahmah used to make them quite often when Ping was a kid and Ping loves it! Actually, sweet potato itself is pretty good and is a delicacy in the Chinese culture - in China, where the weather is chilly during the Moon Cake Festival, people will 'pu' (bake - but typically using charcoal like BBQing style in US) the potato (烤紅薯). We do it here when we BBQ, even during the summer! At the pasar malam (night markets) in M'sia, there are also stalls that sell tit-bits, where one of them is fried sweet potato slices - yummy!! A very addictive M'sian snacks, especially if Ping has the whole packet to herself and is sitting in front of the tv watching a nice series. Oh by the way, the new series - 籃球火 - is lots of fun!!! 小豬is super funny!!! Definitely a must watch for 小豬's fans. Haha. Pei, 如果我們兩個一起看, 一定笑道肚子痛的. 有很多遊戲玩了, 不用一直完'某人' 的遊戲了. Hehehe..