Yesterday afternoon, my friend ST & I decided to have a tried on making one of the Local Delights called [Rojak].
Rojak 囉喏 is a fruit and vegetable salad dish commonly found in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.
The main Ingredients we're using for making Fruits Rojak were Cucumber, Pineapple, Green Apple, Red Apple, Water Apple (Jambu air) & Turnip (Bangkoang), not forget also the most important "Belacan Shrimp Paste".
I also found that Singapore's selling Rojak even added in Taopok (puffed soya bean), Youtiao (fried dough fritters) & Taugeh (bean sprouts). But we didn't wanna added in all those, coz we're much missed our Original Penang Rojak.
Firstly, we cuts all those ingredients into bite-sized portion & place aside. Then we pour the shrimp paste into a large salad bowl, added in chillies paste, a Little bit of finely chopped Kantan Flower (Pink Ginger Bud) & lemon skin. If you would like it taste better, squish in some lemon / lime juices.
When the dressing is ready, then tossed it well with those cut fruits & topped it with chopped peanuts while serving.
This was whats we gonna present as our local delights during our coming Hong Kong conference carnival. I'm not sure whether they'll gonna like it or not coz they might feel weird for this... end up we comes up with the other option of Rojak:
Which is we seperate out the cut fruits & the dressing paste. coz I personally feel that it would rather looks much nicer...
Special thanks to all of my volunteer friends which willing to be our "White Rats". They even dared to try out our first-time-hand-made rojak & gave us some suggestion & opinions. I really appreciate that. I'm also feel so much fun while making & prepare foods.
Finally We all decided to choose on Option 1 & named it as [Rock-a-Rojak].
10 comments:
not bad wor... i like with you char kuey..... yummy.... i can have it when im in s'pore.
wah look tasty lor...... nice try... i believe it very taste nice lor.....
Adoi Adoi...Rojak...makes me lau nua nia...I too would like to make them ,if I could have all the ingridents..but sad to sad,Japan dun have bangkuang..coz I feel rojak main "star" is bangkuang...hehe..
Dragon,
Yes... I also like Rojak you char kueh too... I remember last time I got once order Rojak without fruits just only you char kueh nia... then the stall taukeh getting shock... he might think I'm an Alien... hahahaha :)
Taugeh,
Is my first time made this, luckily the taste still not that bad... Dare to be my "Pek Niao Choo"? next time got chance we meet up & I made for you lo :)
JepunLaoee,
Yes I agree with you, Without Bangkuang It's not called Rojak anymore... Hmm... How about try using waterchestnut? Japan sure have waterchestnut kua :)
wah rojak...so long didnt eat rojak ler...i like to eat bangkuang...in fact i only like rojak with bangkuang and yew char kuay...
haha.... sure.... i can be ur white mice lor..... can eat sure ok one lor :P
akk....very tempting leh,,,anyway i like rojak with dressing paste seperate so that th fruti dnt get watery so fast...:-)
Hainamkepui,
Yes... as JLE mentioned: Bangkuang was the main "Stars" mah... I agree that... It's taste so crunchy & refreshing.
Ah Tox,
Yes you had got it right, that's also the main reason we choosed this option :)
wah looks nice ler.. but i only like bangkuang in rojak.. used to have a big thick sliced bangkuang spread with rojak gravy and lots of nuts on the top part and eat like tat. yummy!
Ah Hoon,
Yes... I had eat before like the way you mention, I used to request the rojak stall hawker to slice a thick bangkuang, then topped it with a creamy rojak sauce & peanuts on top... crunchy & tasty oh ;)
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