This is an event submission from me for the Merdeka Open House 2009 held by Babe in the City -KL. The theme for this years open house is My Sweet Malaysia. Well, i must admit i felt a mixture of excitement and anxious feelings when i heard about this theme. Don't get me wrong, i love traditional sweets but I've never attempted any traditional Malaysian sweets at home and my pathetic knowledge about Malaysian sweets isn't gonna help.
Initially i was planning to make glutenous rice dumpling with coconut pandan leaf stuffing, a recipe from Poh @ Masterchef. However, i failed terribly and the whole lot of dough went into Mr. Bin's tummy. After the failure, i then opted for something simplier - something that even dummy me can do. So i found this ondeh-ondeh recipe from rasa Malaysia's site. Sorry for not being able to submit something more exotic but i tell ya, even making these simple ondeh ondeh was a hard and desperate task for me. I started making these little sweets without any expectation of success.
To my relief, everything turned out ok. My ondeh ondeh might not have looked as good as Sea Salt and food but hey, at least they were editable. I gave some for my colleague to try and she loved them !! woohoo.. !!!
Anyway, this is my little contribution to this years Merdeka Open house. Happy 52 years old Malaysia!!!
8 comments:
Don't be so hard on yourself, Jin! Kudos for even trying and these look great! I personally have no idea what they are supposed to look like so for me they are PERFECT!
~ingrid
Nice entry! I love ondeh-ondeh.
Thanks dear for being such a sport ;-)
Watch out for the round up ok
Hi Jin Hooi, came across your blog thru Babe's :)
I've been dying to make those ondeh-ondehs too, but have absolutely no idea where to get freshly grated coconut here in melbourne. Where oo where should I head to to get my hands on them?
Thanks heaps :)
-ZR
They look perfect to me :-) Like any Malaysians dessert, don´t have to be so fancy looking and most importantly is it tasting good :-) Happy Merdeka!
Ingrid - Thanks .. u r always so sweet my dear ;-)
Little corner of mine - Thanks
babe_kl - thanks!!
Anonymous - I bought the dry shredded coconut from Coles and steam it before use.
Lianne - Thanks and same to you .. Happy Merdeka
I love the bursty ondeh ondeh! Made some over the weekend- but I think yours still look nicer!
This ondeh-ondeh is one of my favourite too! Sweet and cute!
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