Last week I embedded a video I came across, How A 500-Year-Old Rainbow Sweet Is Preserving One Of Asia’s Forgotten Cultures, in the sidebar. The videos I embedded in the sidebar are usually for interest or ones that I want to watch but haven’t had time to watch yet, so they are there for a temporary time only as I update those videos every once in a while. However as soon as I watched something on YouTube, they then recommend more videos on the same topics for me. So I thought might as well do a post on kuih-muih to keep those videos here as you may also have interest in watching them. Also I may want to watch them again in the future, and don’t have to go look for these videos again…
Here are three videos about the delectable bite-size snacks of Malaysia and Singapore… A quick explanation for non-Malaysians and non-Singaporeans, kuih and kueh are just different spellings of the same thing; kuih is the proper Malay spelling, kueh is the old spelling used mainly by Chinese – it is the Chinese Hokkien and Teochew dialects pronunciation for the word 粿. The Chinese character 粿 is made up of 米 (rice, the left radical which tells you it is rice related) and 果 (fruit, the right component which gives you the phonetic information as well as description), so it indicates that the character 粿 means “fruit made from rice”. Of course the kuih-muih have evolved in Malaysia and Singapore into snacks not only made from ground rice but also made from wheat flour and starches as well through colonization of the region by Portuguese, Dutch and British… The term kuih-muih, or kueh-kueh, is basically the plural form of kuih or kueh, it means all types of kuih.
How Kueh Evolved From Savoury To Sweet Through Cross-Cultural Fusion | Southeast Asia On A Plate
How A 500-Year-Old Rainbow Sweet Is Preserving One Of Asia’s Forgotten Cultures_Still Standing
甜而不膩的馬來西亞傳統糕點，你最愛哪一道？ | 大馬滋味 Malaysian Flavours EP7
Which of these sweet but not cloying traditional Malaysian kuih-muih is your favorite? (in Mandarin and Chinese dialects only)
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