Homemad Pulut Pisang Recipe (Glutinous Rice with Banana)

Pulut Pisang or Pulut Dakap. 

Pulut Pisang means glutinous rice with banana, it is a famous Nyonya dessert in Malaysia. 

You can find it easily in Penang's Kuih stall.

And some people call it Pulut Dakap or Romeo & Juliet,

because it tight 2 of the Pulut Pisang together, so romantic.

Pulut Dakap

 One of the main ingredient, glutinous rice.

I used 500g of the Glutinous Rice, 

and can make about 20 pieces of Pisang Pulut.

Need to soaked about 2 hours then  then washed and drained well.

then cook with 2 cups of Santan ( Coconut Milk) 

 can also add in knotted pandan leave (optional)

cook with your normal rice cooker,

but put less water let the glutinous rice sticky texture,

don't cook like Nasi Lemak way.

Add 1 1/2 TSP (Table Spoon) of salt. 

And 3 TSP of Sugar

 

 'Pisang Awak' is also known in Australia as 

'Ducasse' and 'Kayinja' in Uganda

  In Thailand it is known as kluai nam wa 

(Thai:กล้วยน้ำว้า, IPA: [kluːəj nam waː]).

 This type of banana is suitable for cooking purpose.

Clean the Banana Leaf and cut in small piece,

make sure can wrap the banana refer the next photo.

Steam the banana leaf to easy wrapping.

 Cut half of the banana and wrap with the glutinous rice.

 Due to don't have the string and try to not use the Raffia String.

so just wrap it like that.

Steam it about 20 -30 minutes.

Hojiak Hojiak Hojiak and Homemade.

Chrysanthemum Jelly

Chrysanthemum Jelly

Weather is bad, people love to drink herbal tea during this hot weather.
Chrysanthemum is good in reducing heat and also good for detoxification.
I got this idea from the HK TVB drama
It looks very nice with a bit of wolfberries.

Beautiful Chrysanthemum Jelly Flower

Black Glutinous Rice Porridge Recipes

What is this?

Some people call it black sticky rice, black glutinous rice or sweet rice.
Chinese call it  黑糯米又叫作紫糯米或紫米.

How to cook Black Glutinous Rice Porridge (dessert)

1. Wash and clean the Black Glutinous Rice.

2. Soak the Black Glutinous Rice into the water about 2 hour.

3. Boil a pot of water together with Black Glutinous Rice, using medium heat about half an hour.

4. Put in pandan leave, dried longan and lotus seed, using small heat to cook for 2 hours. 

5. Optional using slow cooker will much more easier.

Slow Cooker

6. Coconut Milk diluted with bit of salt water.

7. Served with the coconut milk or Vanila Ice-Cream

An exotic dessert, simple and easy to make.


HOJIAK 

All About Sugar & Gift 團圓湯圓甜品店

This shop is located along Lorong Susu just behind Town Steamboat Restaurant（火锅之家旁）.

Tang yuan dessert restaurant seldom appears in Penang. 

This shop did a good job and has already open for about 2 years. 

If you have not visited this restaurant, do give them a chance and sure they will not disappoint you.

The red colour design makes you feel welcomed

 Chef Chen Hong who comes to Penang also pay a visit to this shop.

And he gave a very good comment about the Glutinous Rice Ball (Tang Yuan)

Lotus Seed Tau Sar Tang Yuan - RM2.50

This is something special for Glutinous Rice Ball (Tang Yuan) 

It's wrapped with Shredded Coconut(椰丝）

There are two colours, one is stuffed with lotus seed 

whereas the other is stuffed with black sesame.

They are served warm and is best eaten in one bite  

 You will feel the tantalizing aroma in your mouth - great experience

*** Hojiak ***

Longan Glutinous Rice Soup Tang Yuan - RM6.00

This is an authentic Longan Glutinous Rice (龙眼黑糯米）dessert

the creativity of this dessert is they replace the coconut milk with cold vanila ice-cream

plus some small chewy Tang Yuan

You will feel amazed with this combination

HOT + COLD + CHEWY = SURPRISE YOUR MOUTH 

Tuan Yuan Special - RM6.90 

(5 Choices of Tang Yuan)

                                                     - Peanut  Tang Yuan       *** MUST TRY 

                                                     - Cheese Tang Yuan       *** Cheese Lover 

                                                     - Chocolate Tang Yuan   *** Surprise 

                                                     - Durian                           *** Superb

                                                     - Sesame                        *** Fragrant

                                                   * there are many other choices in the menu*

                                              There are three choices of the soup base for the customers 

        - Milk, Brown Sugar, White Sugar -

            All the three flavours are cooked with lots of ginger, 

         and the aroma of ginger is best matched with Tang Yuan 

Chinese Wine Salted Chicken Rice Set - RM10.90

Very huge portion and delicious.

The best word to describe it is HOJIAK.

Photo with the owners of All About Sugar & Gift .

-great dining experience with a warm hospitality from the owners- 

Craving a yummy dessert to cool you off? 

BUY 1 FREE 1 freshly prepared Tang Yuan(Up to 14 Choices) 

for only RM4.20 at 

★All About Sugar & Gift★
2 bowl of HOJIAK Glutinous Rice Ball (Tang Yuan)= RM8.40 

Ezivoucher = RM4.20   50% discount

All About Sugar & Gift

No.11 Lorong Susu,

10400 Penang

Tel : 012 5320353

Business Hour : 11.30am – 10pm (Closed on Wednesday)

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ABC at Tropical Fruit Farm

Just Rm2.50 if you visit tropical farm, a must try cooling desert.

Business Hours
The farm is open daily from 9.00am to 6.00pm.

Last Farm Tour at 5pm

For more information contact us at:-
Tel: +604 227 6223 or
H/P: +6012-497 1931

http://www.tropicalfruitfarm.com.my/

Pretty Dessert and Fruit Salad

(甜蜜蜜)
This is the dessert that my wife love the most!

With papaya, watermelon , tin longan, mangoes, honeydew
and some nata de coco.
Need a lot of time to prepare this dessert, but it is very sweet
that every single bite come into your mouth.

Pretty Fruit Salad

Ai Yu Bing ( 爱玉冰 - 噢桥 )

Ohqio ( 噢桥) or Ai Yu Bing (爱玉冰 ) is a tasty healty natural jelly. It's a famous dessert from Taiwan. But one can hardly get it from Penang food stall. Ai Yu is a kind of fig and its scientific name is Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang, a member of the fig family. The plant is sometimes grown in close proximity to Betel nut palms thus providing a tall trunk, which the fig uses as a support to climb.

The only stall that sells Ai Yu Bing in Penang.

But sometimes you can get it from Pasar Malam.

Afternoon : Opposite Chew Jetty together with Curry Mee and Laksa stall.
Night : Along the Chulia Street with the famous Wan Tan Mee and Curry Mee

The pure Ai Yu in the pail.

Perfect match with lemon and lychee.

Plus cold ice-blended and Ai Yu ........... HOJIAK!!!!!!!!!!!!

A refreshing dessert that keeps the fever away.

Rambutan + Lychee + Coconut = Pulasan

The pulasan, or poolasan, Nephelium mutabile Blume (family, Sapindaceae), is closely allied to the rambutan and sometimes confused with it. One of its local names in Malaya is rambutan-kafri (negro's rambutan); another is rambutan paroh. In Malacca it is sometimes called pening-pening-ramboetan.There are numerous tribal names for this species throughout Malaysia.

Black colour = Sweet!

This fruits can seldom be seen in market.The pulasan is a little larger than the rambutan, with fewer fruit per panicle, but appearance and eating quality is very similar. The rambutan has soft spines, whereas pulasan is covered with little rubbery studs and a bit of lychee taste.



Thanks to Malaysia Best, I got to know this fruit and had been deeply in love with it! I bought the pulasan above from Batu Lanchang Market. When I went the next day to grab more of the pulasan, they were gone. To those who haven't try before, I think you've miss out something great!

Tang Yuan (Glutinous Rice Balls)

Tang Yuan ( 汤圆) or tangtuan (汤团), is a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in boiling water.Tangyuan that has been filled with sweet or savory fillings are collectively known as Yuan Xiao (元宵). Filled tangyuan (Yuan Xiao) can be filled with a wide variety of ingredients including red bean paste, chopped peanuts and sugar, sesame paste (ground black sesame seeds mixed with lard and sugar), rock sugar (which would create a hot, melting caramel-like filling), etc.

Most Penang people will make their own Tang Yuan during MidWinter Season(冬至). I could still remember during childhood, all the family members would gather together to prepare the Tang Yuan. Nowadays most busy Penang local do not have time to prepare their own, so mostly we would just buy outside.

Now we do not need to wait until MidWinter Season(冬至). We can eat Tang Yuan any time we want. Many people will tend to eat Tang Yuan after watching the TVB series A Life Made Simple (Ah Wong II). I will not introduce Mango Tang Yuan but a delicious and simple frozen Tang Yuan from KG Pastry. Their slogan is "So Easy, So Yummy". It's very true!




















You can buy this frozen Tang Yuan from TESCO or from others Hypermarket. There are two types, one bigger size and the other smaller but both also same prize. It is just the matter of quantity. I love the one with peanut butter fillings.
















Prepare the ginger and brown sugar for the soup.

















Most people's house should have these two ingredients, so just prepare a pack of KG PASTRY Tang Yuan in your freezer. You can have your Rice Ball anytime you like.

It is easy and simple, boiled a bowl of water and put the ginger and brown sugar inside to cook the yummy and simple soup.

Remember to remove the frozen Rice Ball from freezer but do not defrostthem. Then put the Tang Yuan into the boiling soup. Be careful and make sure to push the Rice Ball with the back of laddle to prevent breakage and sticking. It is ready to serve when the Rice Ball float.



















Note : If you dislike brown sugar and ginger, you can try white sugar with pandan leaves. It is also not bad!

Berjaya Georgetown Hotel Sea Food Buffet

Talking about buffet many people will just think about Evegreen Laurel , City Bayview or Cititel. Many people will forget the Berjaya Georgetown Hotel, maybe cause of the size of the Cafe. The Coffee House is a bit small, it can just cater about 100 people.

But with the special promotion, now Berjaya Georgetown Hotel provides a very interesting buffet with a very good price. The most attractive thing is the famous ice-cream in the world ...... Yeah... it is Häagen-Dazs
We enjoyed the Friday Sea Food buffet dinner that night. It costs Rm 35 per pax but because of group booking we get 30% discount so we can enjoy a Sea Food buffet dinner with unlimited Häagen-Dazs ice-cream for just RM25. Envy leh? :)

The Nestum prawn although is large enough, but not so fresh. Still consider OK in Hotel Buffet, it is better compared to those I tried before in other Hotel buffet.

The cold crabs and the sweet sour crabs were fresh enough. It's just that the crabs were a bit small. However, I prefer eating crabs in house or seafood stall.


Thumbs up for this smoke raw salmon fish. Fresh and tasty, the delicious taste is just hard to describe. Try it yourself!

The 2nd popular food in this buffet, everyone like this deep fried golden squid.
I think you already know what is the most popular food in this buffet, yeah ... BINGO! It is the Häagen-Dazs ice-cream. Most people took more than 2 scoops. There's a waiter incharge to serve you the Häagen-Dazs ice-cream to prevent people from messing up the ice-cream, but you still can eat all you can. I took 6 scoops of the ice-cream, already worth the money I paid for this buffet;) I like Strawberry Cheese flavour the most. Haagen Dazs ice-cream...yeah...it makes me feel on top of the world!Who has never try out this buffet, it is highly recommended to try.

1-Stop Midlands Park, Burmah Road, 10350 Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
Tel : +604-227 7111
Fax : +604-226 7111