Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Giant Ban Chang Kuih @ Tg Bungah Pasar Malam (Tuesdays)

This is unlike the small sized variety of crispy Malay sweet till your teeth decay Apom,nor the moist floppy like suffering from some manhood issues Chinese Apom Balik,or UFO jellyfish head Indian version.

I am talking about the large pizza sized one that they cut into smaller portions to sell to us suckers.
The one that is bloated by yeast,and is as sticky and thick as two moist kitchen sink sponges pasted together.
Alkaline water/Kan/Lye sui, is used here to give it a fake yellowish caramelised sheen that requires less of other ingredients like oil and sugar to achieve the effect.

It has no sweetcorn,just sugar and peanuts.That's it.

One triangular shaped piece dissected from the fluffy pizza costs 80sen.
What burns me is that its not even a triangle,they listened too much to Lillian Too and cut off the sharp end to minimise the damaging effects of poison arrow Shar Chi.

It is bitterish cos of the overdose of alkaline water.

Is also dry cos the owners prefer to maximise effect of kansui while minimising costing to if possible,nothing.

There is no oil.They don't even have the cow sense to cloud our judgement with a smattering of margarine at the base to make it fragrant.

It is not sweet enough cos they use a suspicious looking brownish powder like concoction (dare to display out the open some more)that does not even look like brown sugar.
It looks like dust clouds William Hung,Banged up in all his appearances around carpetted world venues,that his tiger mother diligently picked up with a DIY toolkit from CSI,blended with a fraction of Aspartame or Saccharide,and sold for peanuts to this Malaysian couple.

Worst of all their peanuts are not fragrant and have masuk angin (lost ALL their crunchiness)

Young couple is so stingy with the ingredients,that they proudly present you their small,small BCK as the prelude to them making big big profit to buy huge huge units of OSK.
Therefore they give us Dry Alkaline Sponge Blob that even ants will avoid cos of the Kansui Kayu Guard looking after the preciously useless 'goodies' sandwiched inside.

Eat this like you were trying to eat a mini Subway version of Muar Chee with Gone Case peanuts(won't be surprised if they took time out to sandpaper the sharp edges of the peanuts too)