A Trengganu Trek

Capital of Trengganu

Capital of Trengganu

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Keropok Lekur

We stopped at a keropok lekor stall, to buy keropok lekor,
but they were making it there and then, so we took photos of them
in the process of manufacturing the KEROPOK LEKOR.


Made and kneaded manually
Only fire from wood will do! Stove made from crude bricks!
I got this from "Intermediate Technology": the fish is deboned manually and then mixed with sago or tapioca flour.  Then it is kneaded or pounded using long wooden pole in a wooden mortar.
Most school canteens sell keropok lekor and kids love them.I do too, the fishier the smell, the better!
My two city slickers looking at the Trengganu girls making the keropok.
All sorts of crackers (prawn, fish, tapioca are packed and sold here)
They are cheap and affordable and make great take home gifts to give the girls
at the office back home.  Whenever we go on school trips gifts like these
are mandatory: they are called "ole ole"!!!
This boy is packing raw keropok lekor (which has not been fried or boiled yet).
Deep fried keropok makes a tasty snack and is very cheap too: twenty sen or so,
and eaten from the plastic bag drowned in chilli sauce (sos cicah....
yeah, I do love to "cicah" the keropok in the piquant "sos"!!!


This blog goes into good details about keropok lekor:

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