Miow Sin Popiah and Carrot Cake - Lavender FC
This Poh Piah was highly recommended by the kakis at the forum, so I had to try it. Whoa, so much crispy thingies!! Very excited. But as the lady began to make the Poh Piah, I noticed that the Poh Piah skin has got the words "Made in Kaki Bukit" printed on it! Well, not really, but the Poh Piah skin was the factory made type and looked really synthetic! My heart dropped to the floor and bounced back up again. How can this be? Such a popular Poh Piah using skin made by a machine? This is bad, very bad.
Well, the Poh Piahs weren't too bad, but they weren't exceptional either. $1.20 3.75/5 Really, someone should just resurrect the whole Poh Piah industry and do what the Pau industry did. Let's bring back the handmade Poh Piah skin! Don't let the factories at Kaki Bukit take over this priceless heritage! Please read my other post "Poh Piah, can we do better?" by clicking THIS.
This same store also sells fried carrot cake. So I asked the man, "Ah Chik, why your carrot cake so good? You make your own carrot cake isit?", to which he answered "No lah, buy from supplier one!" I am not having a good day! So I pressed him. "Why your carrot cake so famous?", to which he replied "Don't know leh". No good, no good at all.
But the carrot cake WAS really good. Really crispy and lots of Chai Poh. The chilli is shiok for those who like spicy stuff. I found out later after much interogation that they actually put some secret ingredients to the carrot cake before they add the eggs. Best white carrot cake I had in a while and well worth trying. 4/5
This stall has been around for over twenty years and started at Long House. Along the way, the convenience of the synthetic Poh Piah Skin and the factory produced carrot cake must have lured them to the dark side. I really hope that they at least continue to make their own chilli, turnips and crispy thingy or the next generation won't know what a real Poh Piah tastes like!
Miow Sin Popiah and Carrot Cake
#01-04, Lavender Food Square
380 Jalan Besar
62928764
Closed on alternate Wednesdays.
Opened till 12mn
3 comments:
This popiah is overated!
The vegetable filling is too soft for my liking; I like the crunchy type. And the added mushroom doesn't go very well with the popiah at all; In traditional popiah, there is no mushroom.
Another thing is, the owner is too miserly in applying only a small amount of the black sweetened sauce onto the skin. This little saving on the owner's side has already compromised the taste of this all-time favourite snack.
Also, the vegetable filling must not be too little as this will make it look too skinny to be qualified as a good popiah. Sadly, you don't get it here from the stall. A good popiah is full and fat. It is the generous filling of the popiah that makes popping a piece of it into your mouth so gratifying!
Lastly, I find that this popiah is too dry; The vegetable is not crunchy & juicy enough.
I have enjoyed better popiahs from an unknown little stall somewhere in Geyland. The popiahs done by a middle age woman had all the attributes of a good popiah. It has lots of filling, saurce, chilli, and it is crunchy & piping hot. Each selling at $1.00. It was so good I consumed three of it with a cup of coffee!
Good popiah doesn't has to be expensive, and certainly, it doesn't depend on TV advertisement to make it taste better. Sometime, the advertisements you see on Tv may overate the food. Just be careful.
Many excellent food served by unknown hawkers are much better than those advertised in the TV!
the white version carrot cake is crispy, generous with egg, so it got my nod for one of the best carrot cake around. But I don't think it's the best nor second best though ;)
1st time i tried the popiah: quite nice
2nd time: average, standard dropped a little
3rd time: not nice at all...shall not buy the popiah from there again..
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