Covid-19 MCO : Day #41 (Today Eat Dumplings)

When I was growing up in Kuala Terengganu, I never appreciated dumplings (chang). Every year during the dumpling festival my late grandmother bought dumplings to enjoy.

There were three types - the regular ones with meat, the long cylindrical ones (with mung bean filling) and the alkaline ones (eaten with sugar or as I later learned can also be eaten with kaya). 

Of all the three, I was more partial towards the one with mung bean filling (I ate with sugar). The one I disliked the most was the alkaline dumpling. As for the regular meat dumpling, I was indifferent towards it.

I only started to appreciate meat dumplings after I ate the ones made by my auntie. Yes, my auntie who grows beautiful roses. Up till today, I still feel that her dumplings are the best, bar none.

Recently I learnt from Mun about dumplings sold at Golden Kim Wah, Damansara Kim. So I contacted the seller via whatsapp (Tracy :   0124929611) to place an order. I made payment via online transfer and arranged for my partner to collect the following morning (thank you lahling!).

In fact, on Sunday my partner had already bought me two dumplings from An Xin's Healthy Meat Shoppe hee..hee..

So now I can compare the meat dumplings from An Xin's and Golden Kim Wah and to finally taste Nonya dumplings which I have been searching for a long time.

In terms of size, they are comparable.

I have eaten An Xin's dumplings before and I thought they were pretty good. 

There is meat (with fat), chestnut, mushroom, black eyed peas and salted egg yolk inside. I still think they are good.

When I tasted Golden Kim Wah's salted egg dumpling, I thought it tasted slightly better than An Xin's. Taste is subjective, others may have a different opinion.

It also had meat (with fat), chestnut (very soft and creamy, I like), mushroom and black eyed peas in addition to a very scant amount of salted egg yolk. I don't know if  the rest of the salted egg dumplings have more salted egg yolk, maybe it so happened that this one had very little. 

As for the Nonya dumplings, I was a little disappointed because this was not the taste that I expected. I mean, it is tasty but just not like the Melaka Nonya dumpling that I ate many years ago. That one was stained blue with bunga telang with a lovely aroma of coriander powder and it was a bit more sweetish. 

Overall I am happy with my purchase of the Golden Kim Wah dumplings. 

I am saving the rest in the freezer to enjoy and share with my partner over the next few days. 

He has not tasted the dumplings yet but I can say with almost 100% certainty that he will say "Penang one better!" heh..heh...

By the way, besides dumplings, there are other goodies sold by this seller.

So that's my dumpling indulgence for the day, which happened to be my dinner.

So what was lunch?

A salad to balance out all the carbs I was going to have for dinner.

As I transferred the salad into a bowl, my cat was very excited.

I reckon she was attracted to the smell of the smoked duck.

So I gave her some.

And then when I was prepping the dumplings to be photographed, she went absolutely berserk, trying to climb on the chair and all. The smell is that good.

I knew that if I gave her the meat, she would want more. So I gave her a small bit of the glutinous rice, which she found unpalatable. Sorry Girl!