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Toast

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A while back, I wrote about half-boiled egg. A reader asked me where I can buy the half-boiled egg maker. Well, you can find it at the crockery section in most supermarket.

Over here in Penang and I am sure in other parts of Malaysia, coffee-shops serve half-boiled egg with toast. They go in pairs. I love to make toasts too but I much prefer going to the shops because their toasters are bigger and hence, they produce more slices of breads at the same time. At home, the toasters I have are just double slices so by the time I got two slices out, someone would have eaten it and I will be standing by the toaster like forever.

To make good toast, one should use bread that is not commercially sliced. Those breads like Gardenia is too thin and when toasted, will tend to be hard on the inside and out. Whereas, when using the other type of white bread, the outside will be crispy and inside still fluffy and soft. While using modern toasters are great, have you eaten bread toasted over open charcoal fire? That is the ultimate toasts to die for.

In Penang, we have white bread that has no thick crust on the outside. Just pure white bread, sliced thickly.

Once toasted, slather with butter and sprinkled with sugar. The above photo is just for show. The toast has way too much sugar, ok?

Dunk the pieces of toast into half-boiled egg. Best accompanied with a professionally brewed cup of Hainanese coffee.

Posted by lilian on February 12th, 2008 under Recipe

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  1. Jason Says:
    July 6th, 2005 at 2:40 pm

    Charcoal is used to produce the best toast around. It is much more crispy than using toaster. No idea why though. You still get to see it in Jonker Street, Melaka. Hehe, but not cheap ler nowadays. Another type is steam one… also nice :D

  2. Papi Says:
    July 6th, 2005 at 2:41 pm

    Nowadays, very difficult to find those bread aldy. Last time, got Babu on bicycle/kapcai selling wan, and cut on the spot also.

  3. Makan Kings Says:
    July 6th, 2005 at 8:11 pm

    Lillian,

    Agree. The best toast is those toasted on charcoal amber. Also, there is some that are steamed. Also quite nice. Toast with kaya and butter is the best!

    -Makan Kings-

  4. babe_kl Says:
    July 7th, 2005 at 9:14 am

    i like my toast wid peanut butter & sugar and also peanut butter wid marmite :D

  5. lilian Says:
    July 7th, 2005 at 12:01 pm

    babe - What? Marmite with peanut butter? Never thought of that combination. And I don’t think I dare to try LOL.

    MK - I hardly can find steam bread here in Penang. Mostly toasted.

    Papi - We have that around certain areas only. Those stalls selling kueh at night. There are only two small bakery baking this kind of bread.

    Jason - Charcoal is really but how many people bother nowadays. A lot of work involve. But can try at home though.

  6. babe_kl Says:
    July 7th, 2005 at 1:35 pm

    get the gardenia pearl barley bread. toast them then slather one side peanut butter and ano side marmite. try it, its absolutely delicious!

  7. ed Says:
    July 8th, 2005 at 2:51 am

    aiyah this website makes me feel soooo hungry. thanks Lilian
    s
    for people in KL can someone pls suggest places we can have nice toast, half boiled egg n good coffee BESIDES Yut Kee in Dang Wangi??? Yut Kee is quie ok but cannot stand the face of the lady boss.i am sure they are other places tat I have yet to discover. anywhere in KL or PJ also pls share..kay?

    peace,
    ed

  8. Rayhana Says:
    July 12th, 2005 at 2:26 pm

    thanks lilian for the great recipes!

    i used to study in usm penang, and i have had food at the many restaurants that you have blogged about.

    ed, there is uncle lim’s! but it’s cut-throat expensive, but people line-up anyway; morning, afternoon and night! but it’s tasty lah. But it’s crazy how expensive it is. tsk tsk.

    there’s another one at killeney’s cafe, that’s in damansara utama. but this one not so nice, because somehow, the toast comes served to you pretty cold. so no kick.

    we have a lot of these kopitiam-concept restaurants out there now, it seems to be a money making business.

    which lady boss at yut kee? give some description please?

  9. Anisah Says:
    July 21st, 2005 at 2:42 am

    As usual Lilian, your posts always bring back so many fond memories of growing up in Penang.

    My mom made the toast with soft-boiled egg, just like you described.

    I still make them for myself on weekend mornings, but without any sugar.

    The English call this thing, “buttered soldiers”. You butter up white bread, toast it, then cut it into strips, then you dip the strips into the yolk of a soft-boiled egg.

    Our Penang version is probably a variation of what they had in those British Clubs in days long gone. The fact that they are almost always served in ‘old-style’ Hainanese coffee shops lends weight to this theory, because the chefs/cooks in those clubs were almost always Hainanese who were considered the best cooks. Besides the coffee, this is another charm of Hainanese coffee shop that can NEVER be recreated in those new haunt cafes that spring up like mushrooms after a downpour.

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