Frugality On Our Daily Food or Meals??? (2)

Read? Frugality On Our Daily Food or Meals???

Hey! Are you Teochew?

This morning ...

Got new stall? 

Okay lah. Give new business owner a chance to survive.

So Uncle8888 has his bak chang breakfast at new Nonya Kueh and Bak Chang stall near Kovan coffeeshop where the famous Teochew fish soup stall is located.

Hmm..

Nonya bak chang $3.60 and Teochew bak chang ( 潮州双拼肉粽) $4.00

See the difference between the two type of  bak chang

Nyonya Bak Chang Recipe (娘惹粽 Rice Dumplings)

 

Filling Ingredients

 

Fatty Pork and Dried Shiitake Mushrooms


Teochew bak chang ( 潮州双拼肉粽) 

Filling Ingredients

 

Pork leg meat 前腿肉, chestnuts 栗子, Chinese mushrooms 香菇, dried shrimps 虾米, dried scallops 瑶柱, dried oysters 耗干, salted eggs 咸蛋, ginger 姜, garlic 蒜, shallot 葱头 and red bean paste 红豆沙. Teochews include red bean paste into dumplings to give a balance of sweet and salty taste and this type of the dumplings is called 双拼 or 2 flavours. 




So Uncle8888 being a Teochew; he ordered Teochew bak chang and paid $0.40 more.


So being Teochew. Not frugal?

Now, look at steam fish cooking style ....

Hong Kong style steam fish

 







Teochew style steam fish

Walau!

Why add in more ingredients to steam a fish and add more costs?


So being Teochew. Not frugal?