FISHY ICY KUANTAN

Keropok lekor and cendol pulut in Kuantan

Now what says East Coast better than keropok lekor and cendol pulut, the mainstays of traditional food when you think about Kuantan? :)

Keropok lekor is made with fish and sago before being stuffed into a casing – it’s like a fish sausage of sorts. The keropok lekor is then sliced and deep fried. There are two versions that 

This plate of keropok lekor sliced into bite sized pieces just cost us RM 1.

 

it’s eaten with a type of chilli sauce that’s black in colour and sweet in taste. The chilli sauce is homemade – that’s the trick that makes it taste so good. The stalls in Kuantan all have their different recipes for the chilli sauce. This particular keropok lekor is chewy and tastes like a sausage made with fish.

here’s also another version of keropok lekor which goes for RM 1 for 8 pieces.

This is the crunchy type and is the more traditional version. It’s also really good and you can really taste the fish in these crackers – it’s almost made entirely out of fish!

However, the best thing, which is a must try pleasure to your taste buds in Kuantan is cendol pulut. We have cendol pulut over here, but most of them consist of a meagre piece of pulut placed into cendol. The one we had in Kuantan has HALF of the cup filled with pulut.

it’s very filling and it tastes awesome – the gula melaka (palm sugar) used in the cendol basically seeps through the pulut (a type of glutinous rice) and the sheer quantity of it makes it an authentic Kuantan style cendol pulut. I think people eat it to get full – it’s like a meal in itself.