Ruby Poh Piah: Double Skinned Poh Piah
With PK, smart, iwatch_ueat, Tag and VB
When you eat Poh Piah, what do you go for? For me the skin is paramount. The skin must be hand made, chewy and leave that carbo rush at the back of your palate. Then it must have the shiok shiok crunchy sweet stuff and of course they have to be generous with the lup cheong and other ingredients.
This Popiah is quite well known amongst my group of kakis so we gave it a try. The thing that differentiates it from the rest is that the lady uses 2 pieces of Popiah skin to wrap the Popiah and the skin is quite good. The ingredients are generous except for the ever important crunchy stuff. So, quite a good Popiah to eat while you are at Whampoa Temp Mkt but not something I'd drive all the way to Whampoa for. 4/5
Conclusion
Good value popiah with double skin which is quite yummy. The lack of crunchy stuff is the big stumbling block for me.
Ruby Popiah
Whampoa Temp Mkt
4 comments:
Thank you for featuring popiahs. I've always had this theory about popiahs... Perhaps you would like to test it out:
The next time when you're at one of those homemade popiah parties (where everyone wraps their own popiahs), observe your friends' approach to wrapping a popiah for themselves.
The state of the popiah says a lot about the person's character. Eg.
- Popiahs that phua-kang (burst)= greedy or poorly organized person.
- Popiahs that are too skinny = lacks confidence / self-worth
- Popiahs that look good = perfectionist / vain
... and so on. As for double-skinned ones, I'd think the person is risk-aversed or conservative.
Or perhaps, like what you said, simply enjoys the carbs.
Haha... pinch of salt! Cheers!
-shine
Good theory! Whenever I make Poh Piah the liao always too much I don't have enough skin to contain it all. Greedy me!
try Cathay Popiah at Tekka Market. its the only popiah stall there (i think). its called Cathay Popiah cos they used to be the push cart stall outside old Cathay cinema (current The Cathay) post 2nd world war time... so i heard from my grandparents
the crunchy stuff is actually egg..can u believe it??
anyway THE popiah i tink its nice and so far no other popiahs can satisfy me like it does is at Blk 504 Jurong West..cld b quite far for ieat but i tink ppl stay ard there shd try..they got lots of crunchy stuff!!
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