One of the famous restaurants here that offers authentic Foochow cuisine
Sweet & Sour Fish and Ribs
The famous momo (hock chew dialect) buns can be found in bamboo steamers here. Kinda look like pillow buns.The buns are fluffy and tasty; with red bean, kaya and peanut fillings. I am not a peanut bun person, surprisingly, I loved the peanut momo buns here.
This bun shop only opens at 12.30 PM and OMG you gotta be early. The queue just miraculously grow long without you realizing it.
Black Sugar steamed cakes
Siew Hua Bakery
This is a bakery in a residence. Lovely to watch the oven baking in the garage and the creating of the biscuits and cakes in the kitchen.
Pek Guek Tong Chew Pia or Pek Guek Pia or Jing Su Gao
Foochow Mooncake Festival Biscuits
I am not very sure about the proper Foochow name for these beautiful biscuits but they taste super yummy. I am happy to just call them Foochow Mooncake Biscuits!
In the kitchen
I don't know what these are called but I think they are Tausa biscuits. As I was busy taking photographs of the other biscuits, this was stuffed into my mouth!! Haha...oh ya I had a biscuit halfway hanging out of my mouth whilst I finished taking my shots!!! It was delicious, by the way!
Foochow baked mooncakes
Crazy tasty and looks nothing like the 'normal' mooncakes. They are so tasty because their fillings are made of eggs, sugar, pork meat & lard, flour and sesame seeds.
They have 2 types, savory and sweet; pork filling and mung bean filling.
These mooncakes I SUPER LOVE!
Ready packed for customer to buy
Kitchen
A tired wok!
These biscuits I SUPER DUPER LOVE!!!
What an amazing sight! It smelt heavenly too!
Pork lard
Kim Hock Bread Shop
Closed on Sunday and guess when we visited this shop?
Sunday!
Look at the caricature and the boss! Awesome right?
Mr Hwa Kia Hwa is a Hainanese old-school breadmaker. He was kind enough to let us have a peek at his old-school firewood oven.
This bakery opens from Monday to Saturday for business, only at 2.30PM. However, the hard labor starts at 5 AM!
In 2015, Martin Yan, the famous Chinese-American Chef and Food Writer, visited Kim Hock Bakery.
Woodfire Oven
Cute companion
The bread and bun baking tins. Bread (top) are baked for 45 minutes and buns (bottom) are baked for 10 minutes in the traditional oven. They bake 3 to 4 rounds a day.
Firewood for the oven.
It takes 5.5 hours for the firewood to burn in order to heat the oven to the right temperature.
Three generations have already lived in this old double-storey wooden shophouse cum bakery
Rusks @ Roti Kok. Goes excellently with sweet black coffee.
Foochow Braised Fried Noodles "Chau Zhu Mian" 炒煮面
Noodles were stir-fried first and then braised in dark soy sauce based broth. This noodles has thick fragrant soup and omg it is SO tasty.
Kampua Mee
We had this at the market. When we ordered, the lady only started making the noodles right then and there. Wow, the texture was amazing.
Ayer Tawar is indeed a foodie town. There are many bakeries here offering a rich variety of foochow biscuits and buns. As Ayer Tawar is a typical Foochow town, you may enjoy authentic Foochow cuisine here. In addition, if you want to get the unique Foochow mooncakes, you have to be here a month before mooncake festival as they do not make the biscuits or mooncakes all year round.
Now you know where to find some of the best Foochow cuisines!
A lil taste of Ayer Tawar in my own home :) :) :)
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