It was during lunch one of those days when a colleague from Sibu mentioned about this special delicacy called "Kom Pia". "Pia" in Hokkien means biscuit but heaven knows what "Kom" means. We were all wondering what it was and out of curiosity, we kind of forced him to bring the ever famous "kom pia" whenever.
The story unfolded last Friday when the "kom pia" was finally brought to office all the way from Sibu. Sibu is so different from any parts of West Malaysia by the way. They have food that never got to West Malaysia by any chance.
The first thing the "kom pia" did was it tried to burn the office pantry down (see my last post). Well, maybe it wasn't the fault of the "kom pia" but it was the main cause of the smoke and smell of burnt plastic that lingers on till today.
One of my colleagues tried it on late Friday itself after the smoked one got thrown and most of the smoke were gone. She said it tasted like plain naan. But it wouldn't have tasted right without the original "char siew" (burnt pork) inside. So yesterday, they bought some "char siew" back.
The ordeal began with trying to slice a hole in the less than 1cm in width "kom pia". We decided to warm it up first, so it went into the dioxinated microwave. Managed to make some holes in them after and added in the char siew. Some couldn't wait and ate it right away. I had mine microwaved with the char siew inside and it came out oozing with char siew gravy in the bun. Yes, it is actually not a biscuit but more like a bun.
It tasted quite good actually but......and but it was nothing spectacular. It just tasted like char siew bao. Hmmm..... The Sibu guy blamed it on the journey the "kom pia" had to endure to KL. I wonder how the original ones taste like. Is there anything much in Sibu?
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