Or more popular locally as Kuih Bakul, we look forward to having this every Chinese New Year time. In the spirit of a true Malaysian, my mom even went a step further and tried making it a few times.. but that was like aeons ago...! Memories of sticking my impatient finger into gooey sweet brown sugar glutinous stuff in little bamboo baskets lined with banana leaf..which for my child's brain then just took forever to steam cook.. actually it did.. like 8 hours at least as required by the recipe. Those were the traditional days. Now you see them in pretty plastic pack.. in supermarkets, very convenient but somehow dont taste the same, as in every modernised version. But i got one of this leaf wrapped ones from a Chinese friend.. and I loved it.
Apparently the sweet that silences the Kitchen God, the Chinese believe the Kitchen God reports a family's wrongdoings to God during the Chinese New Year. So in the hope of silencing him (his big mouth really), they offer him the sticks-in-mouth stuff. (to keep his pie-hole shut, what else) Interesting eh?
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