Popiah

A few Saturdays ago we invited Uncle Mike and Justina for a popiah experiment.

Popiah being the delicious wet vege rolls you get in Malaysia, not the fried version.

We decided to try making popiah because we (well, mostly I) have been craving it for ages and also because we finally found turnip (the Chinese variety not the English one) in a chinese supermarket.

The turnip itself cost us about £3.50!!!!!!!!!!!!

But that is a small price to pay when you have been craving something you can't get easily..

Here's what was in our popiah.

Hoi Sin sauce, Popiah skin wrapper, cooked french beans,
pan fried tau kuah (hard beancurd?), fried onions
and stewed turnip. Oh and there was lettuce leaves and
chilli powder added later as well.

We made the popiah skin ourselves partly because I don't know anyone who sells them and partly because nothing but good old homemade popiah skin will do.

It was rather tricky to make the skin but nothing 2 smart ladies can't do. The finished product came out good but a bit too thick (next time I'll remember to leave the batter overnight) :P



Have you ever seen popiah skin being made? If you haven't I recommend looking it up on youtube, it is highly fascinating stuff.

Anyway, here's the finished product

Looks good, yes? Popiah + World Cup = extra yummy!

Look what Uncle Mike did to my poor soldier when I was in the bathroom getting ready to leave.

All that just because I tried to throw a grenade at one of his soldiers! Humph! No more popiah for you Uncle Mike!