Delicious And Healthy Sengkuang Popiah Rolls

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There are so many foods and snacks that you must try when you go to a night market in Malaysia.

There is nothing more exciting than going to a night market, especially living in the very hot and humid weather of Southeast Asia.

When I go there, in my case, I buy about 10 different kinds of small snacks and put them in a small plastic bag.

And after hanging the bags around my arms, I can’t help but enjoy eating the cheap but popular sweet, syrupy, spicy, and savory snacks while walking in the crowd.

Anyway, strangely enough, I don’t get tired of the this kind of food I eat there at all, and I think it tastes better. ????

Maybe that’s why, it’s so exciting to line up in front of various food stalls at the night market and buy and eat them over and over again.

Anyway, there are a few things that I usually buy every time I go to a night market in Malaysia.

That is, I’d say I have a fairly distinct list of my own “must-eats” for the night market! That’s right.

There’s no question I’m referring to my favorite chewy rice cakes (?, anko kueh) with sweet or savory stuffing.

Or, I sometimes buy a variety of freshly steamed, fluffy baos or chewy, moist dumplings made on the same day.

And if I’m lucky enough to find a vendor selling thick, flavorful popia rolls stuffed with a variety of local ingredients similar to the fresh, healthy-tasting summer rolls we know well, I’d rather buy them instead of dumplings.

While the ingredients for rice cakes usually contain various ingredients such as red bean, soybean, coconut, and peanut, the ingredients for popia roll are usually used with various vegetables and ground meat, so it has a salty taste rather than a sweet taste.

So, popiah rolls can be eaten as a main food like dumplings.

Also, one of the reasons I like the local popia roll is because of the root vegetable called sengkuang, which is the main ingredient in it.

Local people here in Malaysia have a variety of dishes using various root vegetables such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, yucca(cassava, tapioca, yam) and taro etc but this popiah roll uses sengkuang.

Even better, these rolls are thick enough to eat just two pieces. This is comparable to an amount equivalent to about 5 or more summer rolls.

Furthermore, this popiah roll tastes really flavorful. Also the roll is not bad in terms of nutrition, thanks to various vegetables such as cucumbers, carrots and onions in addition to sengkuang and some spicy sauce spread.

Personally, I don’t necessarily eat a lot of sengkuang because of the popia rolls I enjoy at the night market. Rather, when I go to any local supermarket, I buy fresh sengkuang and eat them as fruits rather than use them in cooking.

So, let’s take a look at what sengkuang is like. Sengkuang(Jicama, Mexican turnip) is a root family like sweet potato, potato, and cassava (yucca or yam), but has very little starchy texture.

It is surprising that it is a root vegetable that can be eaten raw, but even better, sengkuang is so high in water content that it is very low in calories compared to other starchy potatoes and sweet potatoes. In other words, since it is less than 40 calories per 100g, if anyone is on a diet, there is no root vegetable like this. ????????

And then, let’s look at the texture of sengkuang. The texture is like eating a crunchy, hard fruit pear when you take a bite, and it is juicy with a slight sweetness.

Its height is about 20 centimeters, and it has a round bottom and slightly flattened bottom, like a very large calabash. And it’s quite heavy, so two sengkuang the size of a palm weigh nearly 1 kilo.

What is truly unique is that the outer skin is as thin as paper and rolled up like leather. So after peeling this light brown skin once, you can just peel it all by hand. Isn’t it really amazing? ????

Now, let’s take a look at popia rolls made with this amazingly delicious and nutritious fruit-like root vegetable. As I mentioned earlier, I personally love any kind of rolls, for example, chewy buckwheat Korean rolls filled with ingredients such as kimchi, bulgogi, and cellophane noodles and other fillings, called “jeonbyeong ??”, Vietnamese style summer rolls, or Filipino style fried rolls called “lumpia”, or even triangle shape Indian curry puff “samosa” etc.

I remember when I am at a local night market, I typically buy two popiah rolls and the price is usually RM5 for 2 popiah rolls (about $1 USD). So it is on the cheap side for street food prices.

One nice thing about popia rolls is that they are very quick to make and grab, even if they don’t have to make the rolls ahead of time.

And another thing I like is that if I ask the sellers to make a spicy roll, they puts a lot of spicy sauce.

Because it can be made quickly is that popiah is a very thin flour pancake with a diameter of 20 to 30 cm. Put this on a wooden cutting board, spread some salty and sweet sauce on it, put the sengkuang and fresh ingredients on it, roll it well, cut and eat it.

A more quicker way to eat it is to roll it up and eat it as it is, just as you would grab a Korean Kimbap and eat it without cutting the roll.

As I said, If you ask for a spicy popiah, before adding the other ingredients, the chili sauce will be applied thicker on the popiah pancake.

Next, if you look at the order of ingredients placed on the thin popiah pancakes, it is sengkuang, which is kept warm in a pot by boiling it for 1 to 2 hours with soy sauce, various spices, and sugar.

And the ingredients to be added after the sengkuang are rolled up with eggs, peanuts, chopped cucumber, crispy biscuits, seaweed powder, etc. and cut into 4-5 pieces like Kimbap.

One thing is that now, I can easily enjoy popiah rolls at any time. In fact, back in the day when I was living in Cheras, the southern part of Kuala Lumpur, I often ate this popiah rolls at night markets.

Or if I am lucky to wake up early in the morning and went to the morning market to get it with hot Chinese noodles and some delicious steamed bao for breakfast.

Now, if you go to every trendy shopping mall in town, it’s not difficult to see this street food, which is great.

In particular, the place I often stop by is a shop called “Sisters Crispy Popiah.”

Most of these stores are pop-up stores, which do not occupy a lot of tables or seats and are located in the corners of the food court of the shopping mall.

So, customers usually do takeout, and if they decide to eat there, they can usually stand on a high chair for 1-2 people to eat.

Anyway, if you go to the food halls or food courts of many local large shopping malls, it is clear that this store occupies one place, so it seems that I eat there often.

The price is RM 10 if I choose 2 basic rolls, which is about 2.4 USD. It’s about twice the price of a night market, but I can eat it while cooling off from the heat with a cool air conditioner, so it won’t be a problem to pay a little more. ????????

When I buy this popiah roll at the food court inside the IPC Shopping Mall, I run to the wine section of “Ben’s Independent Grocer” in the same shopping mall.

Because I can drink wine there. In addition, to be able to enjoy a pleasant dinner with freshly made popiah rolls with delicious cheese and prosciutto is also a moment to blow away the stress of the week. ????????????

At this moment, what else would you need?! ????

YUM YUM!???????? ?? ??? ??? ?!

Sisters Crispy Popiah @ IPC Shopping Centre

Address: Jalan PJU 6/2, Mutiara Damansara, 47820 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Ben’s Independent Grocer, IPC

Address: IPC Shopping Centre, Lot LG 1.19 & 1.20, 2, Jalan PJU 7/2, Mutiara Damansara, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

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