Anyway, yesterday she decided 2 teach me how 2 fry po piah. I for one, love to eat it, and I thought making it wouldn't be too difficult. I mean seriously, how badly can u screw up frying po piah right?
WRONG. Sooooooooooooooo wrong.
She gave me all the instructions and all before she went for mass. The part I hated the most was folding the po piah because no matter how hard i try, mine never looked nice. Either that or the ingredients would all spill out.
So folding wasn't too bad, apart from mine looking extremely fat compared to my mum's. (I have to squeeze in the ingredients more tightly) And then I started frying.
That's when the disaster began.
Firstly, because I piled them all on one plate, they started to stick together because of the weight. So when I pulled them apart, some of the skin broke. I patched them back with cornflour, a little trick I learnt from my aunt before.
The first few po piahs turned out okay.
The fat successful po piahs
Then as I put a rather fragile looking one(by that I mean the skin look like it was gonna fall apart) in to fry, but it slipped and it tumbled in instead, causing a splash of the oil onto the stove a.k.a. mess, and causing the popiah the break.
All the contents spilled out.
ARGH!!
I fished it back out onto a separate plate, trying to clear all the ingredients from the oil, and decided to try again. But no, everything just went downhill from there. Almost everyone that I popped in started falling apart after sometime. I can even recognize the sound the moment it breaks - there'll be a loud sudden sizzle.
The disastrous popiahs.. :(
Eventually I stopped because I knew I was gonna destroy the rest if I went any further.. so I waited for mum to come back to do damage control. :(
I guess I'll attempt it again another day.. :(
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