The best Kuih by sooty.m on Eaten
Kuih
50 reviews
AMAZING
1st THE WAY OF KUEH’S KUEH BENGKA UBI KAYU
Soots Cook Nook, Private
Phenomenal by any standard of kueh benka ubi kayu (KBUK) I’ve had and I can’t believe it wasn’t made by someone else. Perhaps it’s because it’s my first time trying KBUK as fresh out of the oven as it can get without scalding my mouth? I love its mouthfeel. Further fragranced with oven-scorched banana leaf, this moreish confection is unusually (yet very pleasantly) light, moist and melt-in-your-mouth (just stopping short of being custardy). And to top it off, that deliciously crispy, caramelized crust…Again, can’t believe something so delectable could also be so doable.
REALLY GOOD
2nd TEPUNG PELITA
Ramadan Bazaar, Petaling Jaya
Coconut cream atop a base of pandan jelly. This was YUMMY!
3rd KOSUI
Rempapa, Singapore
BRIEF: “Steamed tapioca kueh with gula melaka tossed in grated coconut. An all-time favourite perfected by Chef over the years with a melt-in-your-mouth mochi texture.” SOOT’S TAKE: They do this very well.
4th BEKWOH’S AKOK | BAKED COCONUT CUSTARD CAKES
Soots Cook Nook, Private
Taking another remote mini tour of Malaysia’s East Coast with these unassuming yet incredibly fragrant coconut custard cakes. Did I mention they’re also scented with pandan and gula melaka? I have not the means (or motivation) to reproduce these with smoking coconut husks or charcoal as it is apparently done locally, so their enhanced billowiness and smokiness will just have to be experienced with a trip there. Someday I suppose?
5th THE WAY OF KUEH’S CLOSED PINEAPPLE TARTS
Soots Cook Nook, Private
Pandan-infused buttery pastry pouches of delectable spiced pineapple jam filling to take you away on a tropical vacay. Hands down the best ones I’ve ever made although I need to cut down on the pineapple jam cooking time (filling was a tad hard).
6th THE WAY OF KUEH’S KUEH BANGKET
Soots Cook Nook, Private
My first time attempting the traditional Singaporean style (with cookie cutters) of shaping these brittle yet melt in your mouth gems redolent of coconut and pandan. No question they’re the best kueh bangket I’ve ever made, and not only because they’re on point texturally and flavor-wise. Even my father thinks they are just like the ones his mother used to make when he was a child.
7th THE WAY OF KUEH’S KUEH KERIA
Soots Cook Nook, Private
Sweet potato donuts, freshly fried and sugared. They aren’t much to look at (the orange ones look a little like bread crumbed, fried onion rings and I couldn’t get the purple ones to be as vibrantly purple on the outside as @thewayofkueh did in the book), but they’re scrumptious enough to have disappeared down the kueh chutes in a single sitting. Sticking with the Okinawan sweet potatoes the next time I do this, coz they taste waaaay better, texturally and flavor wise.
8th THE WAY OF KUEH’S JIAN DUI | 煎堆
Soots Cook Nook, Private
I learned recently that these are auspicious treats for Mid-Autumn Festival in some parts, and so I found an excuse to try them homemade. They might be the best ones I’ve ever had (suck it, dim sum places!) and the use of sweet potato to make their casings probably has a lot to do with it (also made the red bean filling from scratch)! I tried to make them as spherical as possible to resemble the moon but maybe the only things moonlike about them are their texture and their colors: orange sweet potato for a golden moon and purple sweet potato for those once in a blue moons?
9th KUEH SALAT
Candlenut, Singapore
“A perfectly smooth custard made with naturally extracted pandan and coconut milk steamed with fragrant glutinous rice cake coloured with fresh blue pea flower, served with young coconut sorbet.” Did this really cost $16++?? And did 4 of us really share this? 🤑🤑🤑🤑
10th KUEH KOSUI
Soots Cook Nook, Private
One of the best I’ve had and I can’t believe it’s my first time making it! It’s redolent with the toffee-coffee-ness of Gula Melaka, further enhanced with the smooth, delicate fragrance of fresh pandan and texturally, it resembles Warabi Mochi which I love. It also closely approximates the Kueh Kosui I’ve had at a certain Peranakan restaurant along Beach Road, which for me, elevated what I’d previously considered to be a rather nondescript dessert.
11th KOPI GULA MELAKA KUEH KOSUI
STREAT at the Singapore Food Festival 2017, Singapore 049326
Kueh Kosui, duo of Gula Melaka and Coffee Fudge with Grated Coconut and Crushed Nuts. From the folks at PERANAKAN KHEK.
12th LEMPER AYAM PEDAS
Ratu Lemper, Singapore
Glutinous rice cooked with coconut milk and wrapped around savory spiced chicken in modern sandwich format and neatly parceled up in banana leaves. They weren’t kidding about the spicy.
13th KUIH BINGKA UBI BIRTHDAY SLICE
Violet Oon Singapore, Singapore
Baked cassava cake for the occasion, drizzled with gula Melaka and coconut cream on the side.
14th PEANUT TUTU KUEH
牛车水“嘟嘟”糕 Chinatown Tan’s TuTu Cake, Singapore
Traditional SE Asian snack of steamed rice flour encasing a sweet filling of ground peanuts. 🥜
15th LEMPER AYAM
Tiong Bahru Galicier Pastry, Singapore
A roll of sticky rice filled with a spicy and flavorful shredded chicken filling.
18th BINGKA GULA MELAKA
Tiong Bahru Galicier Pastry, Singapore
First time trying this combination of tapioca and palm sugar.
19th KUEH KOSUI 椰糖糕
Tiong Bahru Galicier Pastry, Singapore
Pillowy soft and with the right balance of not-sickly sweet flavors.
PRETTY GOOD
21st PUTU BAMBU
Bazar Ramadan TTDI, Kuala Lumpur
Light and fluffy cakes of ground rice, shredded coconut scented with pandan and gula Melaka in the middle steamed in bamboo lumens.
22nd PUTU PIRING
Bazar Ramadan TTDI, Kuala Lumpur
Steamed cakes of ground rice, gula melaka and shredded coconut.
24th KUIH CARA MANIS
Ramadan Bazaar, Petaling Jaya
Think there was grated coconut soaked in gula melaka inside.
25th ONDEH ONDEH
Ramadan Bazaar, Petaling Jaya
Molten palm sugar encased in a dough of sweet potato flour.
26th NOT AN AKOK
Ramadan Bazaar, Petaling Jaya
I have no idea what this is but I know it's not an akok. Traditional Malaysian Ramadan fare.
28th KUEH PLATTER
Rempapa, Singapore
A nice selection of nyonya kueh to sample. Might’ve enjoyed it more had we not been so stuffed from dinner.
29th PULUT SERUNDING
Sweetestchoice, Singapore
BRIEF: “Glutinous Rice W Spicy Coconut.” SOOT’S TAKE: These were maybe the best of the lot I bought to sample at home. They reminded me of rempah udang.
30th KASWI
Sweetestchoice, Singapore
BRIEF: “Flour & Gula Melaka” SOOT’S TAKE: Not sure they’re the same thing as kueh kosui but these taste very similar.