Showing posts with label roti telur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roti telur. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Roti Tampal

We had lunch out. Nearly everyone does. It would feel a dreadful shame if you were to eat at the local canteen when just a stone's throw away you have tasty cheaper choices. I learnt a new thing to order at the mamak stall today. Roti Tampal, which is pretty similar to roti telur except it's less oily ( feels healthier which may not be so important to some of us ahem ) and it is tastier. I ate mine with very minimal lashings of curry. I wonder now whether it is actually the same thing and the difference of oil is a result of different restaurants rather than them being separate entities. Lunch was  a cheery affair. There were 9 drinks and just 4 of us. So you now know some at the table could store water like camels whereas the more normal of us drank more than one glass. 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Let's talk about food





One is an old favourite and the other a new find. Roti Telur has I'm sure like a zillion calories. Fried Kailan could possibly have maybe 100,000 calories less. They are both proof of how the human mind when challenged can concoct a dish and make it a favourite.  One of the sustaining pleasures of the roti telur would be it's egg-oh taste which is teamed with a crispy batter. And depending on your taste buds and how tolerant they are to spices, when you dip this in curry and tuck in...it is truly divine. Alas like all things tasty, it has the potential to clog up your arteries in no time at all. Best take a statin after this meal.  For the past year, I have been amazed by the fact that I have lived on this earth THAT many years and have only discovered this dish fried kailan. Shame on you, if you're guilty of knowing of this dish and keeping mum about it. It has the crunchiness of the japanese seaweed but oh it tastes a million times better. YUM