No apom, but ban chean kuih (pancake)

我很喜歡吃印度的apom，我回檳城時看到它，我買來吃也讓Steve試了幾口，他就對它印象深刻。這一天Steve談起apom，我說以前傳統的印度人賣的apom是用砂鍋，三幾個砂鍋在火炭上烘制apom，將一、两個鍋當蓋子，蓋子上面也可以放一點火炭，那賣apom的印度人須檢視apom的熟度將鍋蓋從這個鍋移到另一個鍋，就是蓋了這個后又得蓋另一個... 没完没了的，有如比喻不節制的人在遮蓋不斷冒出來的‘謊言或漏洞’ ，或如捉襟見肘，顧此失彼！
我想檳城賣apom的人已大多改用小鐵鑊及煤氣烘制了，也可見到有華人賣apom的。我們上纲試圖找它的recipe，但還找不到。
不過我們有‘曼煎糕’（ban chean kuih or ban chang kuih）的recipe，它是有放花生碎或其它餡料。我做了一塊有蛋和杏仁碎。雖然這次不是apom但能做ban chean kuih也蠻興奮的。

檳城人的一般觀念，曼煎糕又便宜又大塊，是最經濟的早餐或點心糕。Steve學着我說福建話，“go pan ghee go tua te（又便宜又大塊）。”哈哈！笑得我前俯后仰…

I like Indian apom (pancake) so I bought it during our last trip to Penang. Steve tried a few bites and had a good impression of it. One day, we talked about apom, and I said the original ones the Indian hawkers used to sell were baked using a clay pot with charcoal. They have more than three pots and only one or two lids, with a little charcoal put in the lid. Then they need to check the heat of the apom, so they move the lid from one pot to another. They covered this one and then that one…. The action of moving endlessly, as a metaphor: an immoral person trying hard to use something to cover those ‘falsehoods’ being made constantly by him/her-self!

I think most of the apom hawkers changed to use tiny iron woks with gas instead, and several apom hawkers in Penang are Chinese. We tried to find a recipe online but haven’t found one yet.

However, we got a recipe for ‘ban chean kuih’ (slow-cooked pancake) – a type of pancake with fillings of ground peanuts, sugar and melted butter, or other fillings that you prefer. I made one with an egg and ground almond filling, even though we didn’t have apom this time, I was so excited to have ban chean kuih.

Generally, Penang people think ban chean kuih is an economical snack. Steve learned to pronounce ‘go pan ghee go tua te’ in Hokkien dialect (it means “so big and so cheap”) from me. Haha! I laughed loudly…

Apom telur manis recipe -

http://eheartrecipe.blogspot.com/2008/11/snack-apom-telur-manis-sweet-egg.html