Telur Pindang - Telor Pindang - Malay Wedding 's hand gifts Johor

cute eh ...i betcha ...

i went to my friends wedding last sunday ..

wanted to take some picture ... but unfortunately

my camera went flat of batter ... i've forgotten to

re-charged it after my malacca trip ....

anyway ... i went home with his wedding's hand gift

it's actually very traditional way of any malay wedding

that we go home with gifts... usually are the telor bunga

but my friend did the johor tradional wedding...

so i went home with telor pindang ...

originated from johor ...

so the blog goes............................

he he he ... here you are .... why issit brown in color?

that's the natural coloring from the herbs and spices

that the egg was boiled with ...

check out .. the egg has the shell coloring too ...

it's a long process actually .. to cut short ...

it need to be boiled with the herbs and spices

for like 3 days or so with guava leaves, lemon

grass, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, ginger and...

that's all i know lah ... maybe u can try wikipedia

or google is ur friend ... ha ha ha

anyway ... it has many pantang or in english

rules to follow .. if u break any of them...

the egg will root or the infusion may not happend

something like this ....

nowaday ... this telor pindang has gone

commercialize .. so it's easier to find them in

malay eatery now ... syabas !

how's the taste ... yah i almost forgot...

this one ... just OK, because i have tasted real home

made ones ... very very herbally tasted ...1 is sure not

enuff ....

4/10