I miss you 蕃薯旦!

I was tagged by ECL on my favorite food… come to think of it, I love to eat, and have a lot of food that would easily be my favorite! But none of them really come close to what my ultimate decision of my favorite food is. Food, to be delicious or to be favorites among its consumer need not be high-ended or expensive. To me, it’s more of significance – reminisce of my childhood. My favorite food can no longer be found, for it’s no longer sold at the stall cart – the stall is gone the last time I went about half a year ago. =(

Now, what is my favorite food?? It’s a simple蕃薯旦 or sweet potato ball in short. What is 蕃薯旦? As the name goes, it’s a snack or treat that is rolled into a ball and is made from sweet potato. I have no idea on how the 蕃薯旦 that I used to buy from the stall cart in 薯厂街 (in Cantonese; or Petaling Street in KL, Malaysia) is made. However, based on my memory, I remember the women owner of the cart deep frying these balls in oil. Thereafter, she would put 10 balls in a plastic bag (the white transparent kinda with strings at the mouth, - it’s used to packet drinks e.g. ice milo in coffee shops) and sell it for RM$1 per packet. I simply love the 蕃薯旦, especially when it’s just been deep fried. It’s sweet, tasty, crispy, and fragrant too. Simply delicious! It’s really sad that the stall cart is no longer there… and to date I have yet to see any 蕃薯旦 being sold in Singapore. Australia? Don’t even bother to try looking for it! LOL… I think some parts in Malaysia still sells it, but I have no idea where. Guess I will just have to make it on my own if I wanna eat it again.

I have spent some time in the internet searching for pictures and recipe of 蕃薯旦. I thought to myself, it’s going to extremely hard to find since this delicacy doesn’t seems to be very well known. And most of them that I could find was the westernized version of what a sweet potato ball would be. Argh! I was beginning to give up my search when I suddenly come across a Malaysia food website! Not only does it have pictures of the 蕃薯旦, it even has the recipe! You simply have to be me to feel the ecstasy with me after seeing that the recipe is so simply! I have no idea if the 蕃薯旦 from this website is any same with the one that I used to have back in薯厂街, but I’m pretty sure that it is as close as it can get to the real thing!

Thank you ECL for tagging me! Without your tag, I wouldn’t have talk about 蕃薯旦, and I wouldn’t have gone online to look for it, and I wouldn’t have found the recipe! I’m definitely going to try making it one of these days!

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