Yell-OW!

I have no idea why the folks here - up north - loved some of their food, yellow. One reason I seldom buy nasi ayam is because the rice is yellow. Their bihun soup is yellow for the rice noodles; and sometimes even the soup. And oh, don't get me started with their cucuq udang. Yes, cucuq udang-s here are yellow. In fact, all their fried fritters, be it banana or all kinds of tubers are tinted with yellow colouring in the batter.

Power to the turmeric powder!

Now, now...don't get me wrong. There is nothing unusual about the food, anyway. Having lived in Penang, part of the northern region, for a long time now, I have adapted quite comfortably with the same food I find in Ipoh and the ones I find here, only different is the yellow submarine colouring. Hehehe! And oh, I'll spare the sauce part - for now-lah! :D

Last Saturday, I attended three 'kenduris'. Two being a wedding. My friends and I ate sparingly at these weddings because we had taken a hearty lunch of a good beriani kambing at the first house, (of a close friend), so much so, we attended the weddings as a show of courtesy to the hosts and also to catch up with another batch of friends. We ate little, but chatted a lot...hahaha! Only at the last house we went, I still find some room for another round of 'ratah-ratah lauk' minus the rice! But we were pleased because there was a 'cucuq udang' corner. Panas-panas weh. I didn't take a second look but queue up for psst, guess what?...yes, the yellow cucuq udang! It was so damn good...oops, excuse me for the language..., that I have to have it again. Only this time, home-made ones, of course...hikhikhik...


And, sheepishly, I made my cucuq udangs, yellow. Okay, only this once. :-)

Late afternoon tea of cucur udang on Monday recently...

Meh, nanges sama-sama...sebab syedapp! hahaha))

Psst again...SOMeone made cucuq udangs too the next day....and....it was also YELLOW! ekekeke ;p