一阵阵‘叻沙’的香味传入鼻子中，就知道是卖娘惹糕点的印度人经过了。公公把他请入大厅，放下扁担, 打开那三层的竹篮子，里面摆放着娘惹弄的可口糕点，有红姑（绿豆茸的馅），糕打蓝
– Kueh Dalam（下面是青色香叶上面铺椰浆层），哦爹哦爹 – Ondeh
Ondeh（用香蕉叶包着的小丸子内有椰糖），一口咬下去全部椰糖喷得满脸都是，九层糕，蓝花糯米饭加上咖央，肥猪肉（不是真的猪肉，是如肥肉般的糕点），木薯糕，糕果子山丹- Kueh
Kohchi Santan（山丹马来语是椰浆，软软黏黏的椰汁皮内包着椰渣，也是包在香蕉叶内）还有一中黑墨墨的叫‘多堆’- Dodol（也是椰糖煮成的糕），香料虾米（Rempah
Udang）是包在香蕉叶内的虾米糯米饭，我每一样都喜爱，但大多数是选‘红姑’
与‘木薯糕’，照我的猜测这些扁担糕点都是娘惹在家做好了派发给那些要赚点钱糊口的印度人沿街而卖的，我注意到有好几个不同的面孔在卖。
扁担中间吊着一煲‘叻沙’汤，一片片的‘赖粉’放在篮子的最下面，谁要吃，他就一碗碗来弄，放上切得幼幼的大葱，青瓜，辣椒，香花菜，香蕉花等等配料，勺上浓浓的酸辣鱼汤，从未吃过如此好吃的东西，也是他所卖比较贵的一种。
We
smelled the aroma of 'Laksa', as the Indian man selling Nyonya Kueh was passing
by. Grandpa invited him into the hall, he
put down the pole, opened the three-tier bamboo basket which inside placed the delicious
Nyonya Kueh, there was Hong Gu (green bean stuffing), Kueh Dalam (green Pandang
leaf topped with coconut milk type of Kueh), Ondeh Ondeh (small balls with
shredded coconut wrapped with banana leaves), one bite of the ball and the
coconut syrup would besprinkle all over your face, Nine-Layered Kueh, blue
flower sticky rice with Kaya, fat pork meat (not really pork, white colour Kueh
looks like fat meat), 'tapioca Kueh', Kueh Kohchi Santan (Sandan in Malay means
coconut milk, soft sticky coconut sort of skin wrapped with shredded coconut,
wrapped in banana leaves too), another black Kueh called 'Dodol’ (made with coconut
syrup), spice shrimp (Rempah Udang) shrimp and spice wrapped with sticky rice inside
banana leaves, all the Kuehs were my favorite, but I chose 'Hong Gu' and
'tapioca Kueh'.
I presumed
these pole Nyonya Keuh were made at home by the Nyonya women and distributed to
the hard working Indians who needs to make ends meet to sell along the street,
I noticed there were several different faces selling.
In between the 2 baskets hung a pot of 'Laksa' soup, the
'Lai Fun' was
place at the bottom of the basket,
if we ordered, he would cook it bowl by bowl, sprinkled some sliced onions, cucumber, peppermint
leaf, fragrant leaf, banana flower etc., scooped up the hot and
sour soup from the pot, never tasted such delicious Laksa, it was also the most expensive item among the food
he sells.
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