Recipe wanted: Kam Heong Lala

Food Blog,Malaysia,Penang Food,Malaysia Food Blog,Kuala Lumpur Food,Malaysia best food

BM Kia says..

As I read through my blog posts for 2008, I found most of them are restaurant related reviews. I think this is deviating from my original purpose of food blogging, which is to discover and promote local foods, especially hawker fares. If not, it wouldn't be fit to be called "Malaysia Food Blog" So, my main aim of blogging for year 2009 would be to continue to do what I actually enjoyed the most - to travel, discover and promote cheap and tasty food.

18 Sep, 2006 Stumble it!

Posted by: vkeong In: Food and Drink| Mom's best| Recipe () (20 views)

Since tasting Kam Heong Lala (clams) in Kepong last year, I have fallen in love with this dish. In KL, almost all hawker centres have a stall designated to sell lala alongside with ikan bakar. Sadly, in Penang only seafood restaurants sell this type of dish. After constant bugging lol, my mom finally tried to cook lala Kam Heong style. We followed a Kam Heong Clams recipe found in Kuali and the outcome dish was a disappointment. Because although it tasted nice, it wasn’t the same taste I had back in KL.

We tried and tried (even with siput) but still cannot manage to get the desired taste. So I am asking if anyone reading this knows any good Kam Heong recipes, please share it with me? Thanks!

Popularity: 22% [?]

Technorati Tags: Kam Heong Clams

5 Responses to "Recipe wanted: Kam Heong Lala"

1 | Angeleyes

September 18th, 2006 at 10:57 pm

The dishes in the photos don’t looked Kam-Heong at all leh.
From my understanding, Kam-Heong is cooked with dried prawns, chilies, curry leaves, garlic, pepper and blacksauce.

2 | vkeong

September 19th, 2006 at 8:48 am

Angeleyes: The ingredients you mentioned are all included in the dishes.. yet they still taste different

3 | e-Leng

September 19th, 2006 at 2:09 pm

It actually smells like Kam Heong style, but it doesn’t taste like it. KL Kam heong is the best!

4 | Wendy

October 28th, 2007 at 8:27 pm

Hi,

Here’s my recipe, maybe u can try it out. It’s my personal version of Kam Heong Lala.

500gm lala, 1 big onion (chopped), 1 pc garlic (chopped), 1 tbsp curry powder, 2 tbsp chilli sauce(maggi type), 1 tbsp sugar, 1/2tsp salt, 1/2 cup water.

Precook the lala in hot water. Drain. Heat wok, add 3 tbsp oil, fry the onion & garlic until its very fragrant, put in curry powder, and fry for a minute, then the chili sauce, water, sugar and salt. When it heats up and thickens, add in ur precooked lala, mix well, and dish up.

This dish was a experiment, actually cos I had some chili sauce left in the bottle and had to rinse it out, and the result was great. Can add in curry leaves when u saute the onions, but that time I was at home with limited stuff, lazy to go out and buy things again.

From the looks of ur pics, u din seem to precook ur lala. To achieve good taste in cooking lala, u must always precook it in boiling water.
When u get ur lalas fromt he market, get home and soak them in salt water. Let them spew out the dirt. When u wanna cook it, Boil a good amount of water, throw in the lalas, boil til they open up and drain. Then only u start to cook it according to the recipes, if not, u’ll end with with a watery lala dish.

Just my 2 cents..

5 | vkeong

November 6th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

Wendy Thanks a lot for your recipe!! I am definitely asking my mom to try your recipe

Comment Form

Nate: Oh my, what a delicious looking spread! The sate lilit and sambel terasi look especially inviting! Nate’s last blog post..
PenangTuaPui: really like the satay la.. cannot tahan liao.. need to go to makan liao duck satay... ... CNY.. u go ta pao.. i meet u at BM ok? hee hee
allie: Duck satay... mm.. interesting! Your shot is amazing! Juz like it a lot! allie’s last blog post..
Chin: This duck satays are awesome! What a find. Chin’s last blog post..
ntan: hi....quite interesting to learn there are duck satay nowadays. have'nt tried them before believe must be good eh!!

Malaysia Food Blog, Malaysia Travel Blog