Last weekend I was taking out some dried shrimp to cook with my vegetables. But amongst the shrimp siblings, there was an intruder... or maybe a cousin.
Well? Do you see it?
There is a mini-crab among the shrimp (top of the pic, in case you really can't see it). I soaked it in water together with its cousins, but it didn't get softer, so I threw it away. I'm not even sure whether it was an empty shell or not...
In an unrelated incident (that is to make it sound like breaking news, in case you didn't make the connection :P ), I was offered a cucur udang for free. And not for the first time.
There is this stall selling cucur udang (prawn fritters) near my place, at the area where I usually buy my dinner. I don't know what time they start selling, but they will close shop sometime around 7pm. Once I wanted to buy one piece, but they had only two pieces left so they gave me the second one for free. It was rather a dilemma to not say no, because I didn't want to eat that much (I was going to have my dinner too!), but they obviously wanted to get rid of the last piece, otherwise they would have to sit there and sell the single remaining piece.
Then today it happened again... I wanted one piece, but they told me I could have the second one for free. It's rather embarrassing... in the end I gave them RM2 instead of RM1.40 for the one piece I wanted.
I gobbled down one piece once I got home... and then thought to blog about this, so here's the second piece.
The batter that makes up the base has some mengkuang (and other stuff/spices) inside, which makes it better than most cucur udang (which only uses flour, I think). Previously they sold it on a table by the roadside, but today I saw that they had graduated to a dedicated van. The strange thing is their banner shows Cucur Udang Kuala Gula, but another signboard says Kuala Kurau instead.
And typing that led me to make a quick Internet search... turns out that Kuala Kurau and Kuala Gula are nearby places in Perak. There is even a blog post dedicated to Kuala Kurau's cucur udang. Now I know...
Well? Do you see it?
There is a mini-crab among the shrimp (top of the pic, in case you really can't see it). I soaked it in water together with its cousins, but it didn't get softer, so I threw it away. I'm not even sure whether it was an empty shell or not...
In an unrelated incident (that is to make it sound like breaking news, in case you didn't make the connection :P ), I was offered a cucur udang for free. And not for the first time.
There is this stall selling cucur udang (prawn fritters) near my place, at the area where I usually buy my dinner. I don't know what time they start selling, but they will close shop sometime around 7pm. Once I wanted to buy one piece, but they had only two pieces left so they gave me the second one for free. It was rather a dilemma to not say no, because I didn't want to eat that much (I was going to have my dinner too!), but they obviously wanted to get rid of the last piece, otherwise they would have to sit there and sell the single remaining piece.
Then today it happened again... I wanted one piece, but they told me I could have the second one for free. It's rather embarrassing... in the end I gave them RM2 instead of RM1.40 for the one piece I wanted.
I gobbled down one piece once I got home... and then thought to blog about this, so here's the second piece.
The batter that makes up the base has some mengkuang (and other stuff/spices) inside, which makes it better than most cucur udang (which only uses flour, I think). Previously they sold it on a table by the roadside, but today I saw that they had graduated to a dedicated van. The strange thing is their banner shows Cucur Udang Kuala Gula, but another signboard says Kuala Kurau instead.
And typing that led me to make a quick Internet search... turns out that Kuala Kurau and Kuala Gula are nearby places in Perak. There is even a blog post dedicated to Kuala Kurau's cucur udang. Now I know...
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