Friday, December 4 - One of the best things to eat in Malaysia is a pork soup called Bak Kut Teh. It’s got a really complex broth made with loads of herbs and spices and tea (that’s the ‘teh’ in the title). It’s something we make at home quite often, but we can only make it from a packet and while it’s a reasonable facsimile, it’s definitely not the real thing.
The real thing is served piping hot in clay pots, and it tastes less like soy sauce than the one we get at home. Today we had the real thing for breakfast, and we were both reminded just what we we’ve been missing by not living here.
We’ll definitely need to have Bak Kut Teh again a few times before we leave Malaysia.
YAY! I know you've been missing the real thing. Any chance you can convince a restaurateur to give you a quick cooking lesson one afternoon?
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Doubtful we could convince a Bak Kut Teh chef to impart their knowledge and secret recipes, but we DID get Junkii's auntie to teach us how to make another favorite dish (Char Kway Teow). She runs her own stall. Turns out the secret ingredient is chicken stock!
ReplyDeleteKudos to Lex for spelling "restaurateur" correctly, although I knew that if anybody could write it correctly, she would!
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