A Snack Well Worth Waiting For
By Koay Su Lyn, Ooi Kok Hin
December 2017 FEATURE
These delicacies can be enjoyed at breakfast, tea or supper and with its crust thin and crispy, or thick and satisfying.It tastes best when cooked with charcoal.Made from a simple base of flour and eggs, ban chien kuih is a popular Hokkien delicacy. It comes with a flavoursome crust filled with crushed peanuts, sugar and margarine, and is usually cooked in one large pan, then cut and divided into slices for sale. And that’s only one of its delicious variations...
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Koay Su Lyn
reads and writes of the past to make sense of the present. She is a research analyst in the History and Heritage Programme of Penang Institute.
Ooi Kok Hin
is an INTP who lives to write and writes to live. Follow him at https:// www.facebook.com/ ooikokhin.
