Hmm not your favorite
You can have the rest of my cookie
I think she's here
Did you get it? I got it
How was the pickup was it easy? It was easy. Yeah, it was pretty easy to find just follow the directions
So not too bad. Thanks for picking up. Yeah, if I didn't have work I would have gone. It's okay
Whoa, did you did you already open it? No, I haven't opened it yet, but I was reading all the
Different kuih options on the outside, so I got excited. Hey
We don't get to open it yet
We've gotta wait for tea time. Okay, okay. It's not tea time yet
Oh, I can't wait to try it
Hey Rach, is it tea time yet? We literally just had lunch, Logesh. Oh, man. I can't wait yo
You'll be fine just a little while longer
That box is literally right there looking at me
Hey Rach, Zaden is sleeping, right?
Um, yeah, he's asleep in his crib
Is it kuih time now?
You really want this kuih, don't you. Yes. Um, how about like in like 20 minutes?
Okay, 20 minutes fine. All right. You know what time it is?
It's kuih time
Kuih time!
Finally
What we have in the box here is kuih
Kuih is basically the general term of what
Snacks are called in Malaysia. It's not alluding to one type of snack.
It's just the general term for snacks in Malaysia
So my very first trip to Malaysia Logesh introduced me to the concept of kuih
and I just thought it was brilliant because
You know there's always a period of time between lunch and dinner usually around 3 in the
Afternoon where you get hungry and a small little snack like potato chips or a granola bar is never enough
But you don't want a full meal and kuih was just kind of this really happy
medium between the two where it's filling, but you're still hungry enough to eat dinner later
So there are hundreds and hundreds of types of kuih they come in all shapes and sizes
And there's also sweet kuih, there's also savory kuih so there's one for everyone pretty much
Kuihs can also be had for breakfast
you can also have it for a tea time snack
and even the sweet ones you can have it as a dessert after meal
So here in the Kumaar household, we don't get to eat kuih as often as we would personally like to
It's not easily accessible if we want it. We typically have to make it ourselves
And usually that means we only get to make one type, at most two types, which will last us for a few days
Yeah, and that's why I can tell why I'm so excited. It's kind of like Malaysia
Malaysia you have access to various kinds of kuih all the time every day
and we kind of have a little bit of that today
So there's a Malaysian chef that we've been following who lives in San Francisco.
Her name is Tracy and just a couple weeks ago
She posted that she was going to be selling these
variety kuih boxes
And so I as soon as I heard about that, I immediately jumped on
Placed my order and bought it. The thing is you had to like pre-book it and order in advance
Which I did and today is the pickup date.
Okay, Rach, before we dive into this. Do you know the one thing that goes perfectly with kuih?
What?
Teh Tarik otherwise known as Malaysian tea
Which is my favorite tea. I personally like it when he puts a little ginger in it, that's my favorite
It goes perfectly well with kuih. So if you have your hands on some kuih in the future,
make sure you get your teh tarik
Okay, finally, so here is the list of all the kuih that we have inside here
Wow
Oh, it's so pretty
It is so pretty. Oh my gosh. Okay, so first item, so this must be the pandan chiffon cake
Pandan chiffon cake. So obviously it's made with pandan. It's like a very spongy cake
So this is what I would call a perfect level of sweetness, it's not overpowering
It's perfect to drink with some tea, but it's not very sugary
Yeah, it's not a very sweet
like your typical cake would be just the right amount of sweetness to go with like a tea like this.
Next one here is this square guy. Pineapple toaster tart. So in Malaysia usually have a lot of pineapple tarts
It's usually a little round flat things
Yeah, they're a little round and filled with a jam. Filled with jam
But this one is done in like a pastry. It reminds me of an American pastry called a Pop-Tart
That's what it looks like. It looks like a pop-tart, yeah. But I'm sure it tastes much better
That's really good. It's good. It's definitely much sweeter than the pandan cake. Yeah
I've never had it and I've never had a pineapple tart
in this form ever before. No. But I think I kind of like it. The usual pineapple tart has
A lot of pineapple and a little bit of crust. This one has more crust and I like that I like more of the
Buttery crusty flavor with a hint of that pineapple that goes along with it. I'm a fan of this. It's delicious
Wow, so next one we have a really interesting looking one. It's purple color. Looks like it's the ube sesame cake
Oh sesame cake, so I've again like this is a variation of the cake
Usually I've had this type of cake that is made with pandan
So usually it's green color. Yeah, it says purple yam dense cake
So far this is my favorite
Oh, really?
Just the right kind of sweetness again. Not not overpowering a little bit burnt on top
It just gives it a crust with some sesame in the top in the middle that strong ube taste that's sweet
It's good. It is very dense. So I couldn't eat a lot of this one
But the flavor is really nice. It's very rich and creamy
This one here. This is in a little ziploc bag. I'm guessing it's the seaweed chips
Pretty straightforward chips made with nori seaweed
Wow! That was not the flavor I was expecting. Way better than I expected it to be
I'll definitely have to learn how to make this one
Wow, it's really good. They're really good. You know who's going to love these? Who? Zaden
He's going to absolutely love this. This is the kind of stuff that's kind of dangerous actually
You can just keep eating and eating and eating just not knowing. They're really good. So good
They kind of have like a very like pita chip flavor to them
Yeah, but a pita chip but has the umami flavor of seaweed. That's like the perfect way to describe it
great combination
This one here looks like a curry puff. Yep, it is a spiral curry puff
It has chicken and potato in it
It actually says here in the directions, that we need to heat it for 15 minutes in the oven. Oh, okay
So we'll go and reheat this first
So we're waiting for the curry pop to reheat let's move to the next one
I think it's the koji melon cookies. Red koji fermented soy. Koji melon cookies. Um,
What is koji? I don't know I've never had this before. This is a really interesting one
I'm, not sure if this is Malaysian, uh sounds like it's inspired by Japanese maybe
It's a soft chewy with red koji fermented soy, candied melon, and five spice
That's a lot going on. A lot going on. Yeah, so let's try this
Not your favorite
You can have the rest of my cookie.
It's interesting because
It's not bad, I'll eat this, I'll eat all of it. It's a sweet cookie that is trying to be savory
There's just too much going on in it for me. It's a lot going on
It's not bad, but it's not my favorite. I would not eat it again, no
But you can have it
This next item is wrapped in like a paper
Bag thingy. Oh, okay. So it's the bak kwa sliders
So this one says it's made with sweet turkey jerky.
So this is how the bak kwa slider looks like a typical bak kwa
bak kwa is basically a
A pork jerky. Usually it's made with pork or beef
I think
But this one's made with turkey. So it's turkey jerky with... Aioli sauce. Aioli sauce and
In a slider. Yeah, okay just bite it it's fine
I've never had it with turkey. So that will be interesting. This is so good
Wow, wow, it's so good with the cucumber and the little spicy sauce, man. That is really good. This is super good
That's something I could eat for like tea times every day, and the aioli afterwards gives you a nice little kick
Yup, I could eat this for breakfast, lunch
dinner
tea time
Anything this is so good. I heated up the curry puff
Oh, it's hot. It's very hot, it looks so flaky and good
Curry puff is as tasty as ever, can't really go wrong with a good curry puff
But this is a different kind because Rachel has never had the spiral curry puff before. I love it. I love it
You know how you said you could eat the bak kwa breakfast, lunch, dinner?
That's how I feel about this
You can have the other one. Okay. It's nice too.
It's very um filling but it's so flaky that you don't feel like it's too dense
All right. Next one is in like a little container here. This one must be the cup of kaya. Oh, it's green
Why is it green?
Pandan
Of course. Of course.
Pandan flavored kaya, pandan coconut egg custard spread for toast pancake and crackers
Usually we have like kaya toast in the morning or tea time. So, I'll go make some toast
So we can try with this. Sounds delicious
Bread
all toasted here with kaya
You usually spread not only the kaya but you also put knobs of butter on it and eat it
But we're just gonna try the kaya today
It looks so good. Have I ever had pandan flavored kaya? I don't know
Mmmm
Wow
It's really really good. Kaya is definitely my all-time favorite spread on a bread ever like ever ever
It's like rich coconut flavor, sweet obviously
And this one has like a pandan hint to it, and it's so good
It'll be even better if I added butter on that. Not too long ago Logesh actually made
kaya here
And we've been eating it, it's delicious. Yep. But the texture came out really thick
And it's a little bit harder to spread
And so this one is nice because it's a little bit thinner and it goes on a little bit easier
And so this is an example of a kaya that I made
So usually typically it comes in this like brown thing, uh, because I didn't add pandan in this one
But yeah, so I already have my ready-made kaya
but this is a different twist to it. It's a pandan flavored one. More kaya!
You can never have too much kaya. Yep. It's a staple in the Kumaar household
One final one this yellow and white thingy. What's this one? What a great description
Um, how do you pronounce that?
Talum Labu
So it's a pumpkin coconut layered pudding. I don't think I've ever had the pumpkin flavored one.
It's usually pandan flavored
Like a lot of the Malaysian kuih is pandan flavored, but this one again is pumpkin flavored.
So I appreciate the fusion-ness of this
You can really taste the coconut cream on top very very distinctly.
The coconut is very very pronounced in this one
Yeah, the pumpkin's a lot more subtle and the coconut really shines through
And I love coconut. So this is great. It's not very sweet at all. It's more on the lesser sweet side
Dibs on the last one
Okay
So, what was your favorite? Overall?
Was the spiral curry puff. It was delicious. It was flaky
The filling with the potato and the chicken was so delicious
And I love that she put it in the instructions to heat it up because I think that's where the magic happened was
Just having that nice hot curry puff
Yeah on the savory ones too. I think my favorites also the spiral curry puff. It's was so good in all senses
So perfect. It had the flaky crust around it. It had the curry potato inside was just perfect
So, how about the sweet one? For me the sweet one I think the pineapple tart was my personal favorite
Even in Malaysia I love the little jam tarts that you get there
So this is kind of a fun take on that
It's a lot more crusty than the ones in Malaysia and less jam, but it still is absolutely delicious
For me. Oh, wow. It's gonna be hard. Uh, it's it's a toss up. It's either
Between the ube sesame cake or the kaya
I think if the sesame cake was pandan flavored I would have picked it
Ube is just a different, you know flavor altogether
so I think I'm gonna pick the kaya you just
really can't go wrong with having some spread of kaya with you and it goes so well with any sort of like
toast or crackers or anything like that, even though I have
So much kaya already. I would still pick kaya over and over again, and this is a different take on it
right because it has pandan infused in it. My favorite is kaya
So let us know down in the comments below which is your favorite kuih
And if you've never tried kuih before, which one would you like to try someday?
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