Penang, Malaysia - Market Tour

In Penang my mom, dad and I went to this awesome cooking class.

First, we went to the market and looked at all the yummy food and we ate some food too.

We ate a string hopper, which is rice noodle and shaved coconut with brown sugar all mixed together, and it was really good. We also had blue rice cake with coconut jam. It was a big clump of sticky rice that was blue that had this really yummy coconut jam, that had almost a caramel consistency and color, that was spread on top. The third one I did not like that much, it was like a sandwich but the bread was sticky rice and the meat and cheese was a ginger paste that my mom really liked.

There was also this thing called a peanut crumpet and the pan that they used to make it had been passed down from father to son. He does not wash the pan, he only wipes it with a towel because the pan is already seasoned. It is like a thick pancake that was never flipped over on the other side and so the side that was not flipped over was all bubbly and it had brown sugar and peanuts on top. It was very good but was not my favorite; the string hopper was my favorite.

We also had a coconut seed that was cut in half and Pearly,the cooking instructor, said it was like a sponge that was all soaked up in coconut juice.

We had some jackfruit which is my dad's favorite. Jackfruit looks like a little tiny mango and it tastes like juicy fruity gum except juicy fruity gum does not have a big pit in it (I mean the last time a checked it didn't) Did you know that Juicyfruit gum was based on Jackfruit?

We also saw this really interesting thing to at the market! Did you know that are such things as black chicken's ?!?!? Of course if you have ever seen them alive they are not black they are a silver gray but when you take off the feather's they are black and maybe you are wondering does that still mean that they have white egg's? You are correct but the cooking instructor has never opened one she has just heard that they are white. We also saw black covered eggs the cooking instructor did not even know what it was.

Then we left the market and went to her house and started cooking!