the making of crispy ARROW HEADS
There is a large variety of cookies & goodies during CNY.
Pineapple tarts, peanut cookies, prawn crackers, kuih kapit, kuih bangkit...you name it!
But there is one type of chips which is quite popular recent years...the arrowhead chips!
My colleague call it arrow root...whatever...it's 芽菇/塘菇 in Chinese.
It's easy yet tedious to make.
Lemme show you the process...
Buy the arrowheads from wet market or supermarket.
This box of 10kgs costs us RM41.
Have a closer look!
Peel off the skin...
It's yellowish white inside...
Slice them!
Get little helper to arrange the slices of arrowheads piece by piece...
my lil cousin was more than happy to do this task :)
...or else you have to put the arrowhead slices into the wok piece by piece...which is slow & inefficient...
...tadaaa...this is the golden brown end product!!!
Sprinkle a lil bit of salt on them if you want.
Leave them on tissue paper to drain away the oil before you keep them in a tupperware!
Hmmm, it's crispy & yummy!!!
p/s: may be i can venture into business to compete with Pringles!? Anyone join me?
Pineapple tarts, peanut cookies, prawn crackers, kuih kapit, kuih bangkit...you name it!
But there is one type of chips which is quite popular recent years...the arrowhead chips!
My colleague call it arrow root...whatever...it's 芽菇/塘菇 in Chinese.
It's easy yet tedious to make.
Lemme show you the process...
Buy the arrowheads from wet market or supermarket.This box of 10kgs costs us RM41.
Have a closer look!
Peel off the skin...
It's yellowish white inside...
Slice them!
Get little helper to arrange the slices of arrowheads piece by piece...my lil cousin was more than happy to do this task :)
...or else you have to put the arrowhead slices into the wok piece by piece...which is slow & inefficient...
...tadaaa...this is the golden brown end product!!!Sprinkle a lil bit of salt on them if you want.
Leave them on tissue paper to drain away the oil before you keep them in a tupperware!Hmmm, it's crispy & yummy!!!
p/s: may be i can venture into business to compete with Pringles!? Anyone join me?
posted by persimmon @ 11:58 PM
2 Comments:
At 08 February, 2006 12:23,
all-aboard! said…
Arrow root! The first time I ever laid eyes upon these chips was at a Malay stall selling CNY cookies. I asked the stall owner what it was, and he replied 'itu nga ku'. And i thought, pray tell what is nga ku?! I checked with friends, and they all identified it as 'nga ku'. It could be a dialect or BM for all I know. My mom had never heard of it. Now I can ask her about 'arrow head chips' :) Thank you for the enlightenment!
At 08 February, 2006 22:46,
persimmon said…
wow, i thought arrow root is only popular among the chinese.Now the malay also sell it! Maybe we'll see it in hari raya :)
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