nostalgic.chai.kueh

nostalgic.

you love this so much in your childhood.  it's actually one of your favorite and you're usually very excited when your mum made this. a sort of tea cake, steamed.  you believe it is originally a delicacy from the teochew (潮州）clan.

if not because a friend of yours made this here in lowland and have encouraged you, you will probably never give this a try.  you always thought the skin is difficult to handle and that's what put you off the attempt. not until you see the recipe and the fact that your friend mentioned it's rather easy to handle the dough you finally decided to give it a try.
you gave it a go today, you aren't really well, a little cold, a little cough but not sick to put you to bed, so you defrost the innards that you prepared a week ago and get the dough ready.
true enough, it's a bliss to compose the dough, simple and easy to handle, that said, you didn't use the amount of water nor the total amount of oil.  you just follow your gut feeling, the texture of the dough seems good to you.

so easy, so soothing to handle and warp too. just that you are not good with wrapping but the dough itself was indeed very easy to handle.

you're really over the moon with this new discovery and the result.  best thing, the dough never get harden after steaming.  in fact you like to eat it cold than warm.
you ate 7 of this in one occasion   and yes, this is your chai kueh (菜糕) - in hokkien pronunciation, one that you thought you can only eat whenever you go back to the meow meow city or close to south east asia.  but now this is something that you can readily replicate here in europe.