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Putu Mayam

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Putu Mayam is hard to photograph not because it is mostly white. The aroma of the golden brown sugar and grated coconut fluffs makes you want to drop the camera and eat it.

The South Indian (Tamil) delicacy comes in many flavours but generally the vermicelli-like strings are made from rice flour and coconut milk. In this popular street version, the dish is topped with date palm sugar and shredded coconut. I bought this from a pasar malam (night market) stall for RM 1.80 (about US 60 cents).

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/60 sec.

Putu Mayam

Women Power

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It is nice to see a night market stall operated solely by women, selling and replacing covers of various smartphones. The replacement of the phone covers and cases is not as easy as one would imagine.

While waiting, this lady customer with the tattoo, told me she got her ink done for RM450 at Sunway. I think tattoo artists should also set up stalls at the night markets. At the same venue, I saw a hairdresser with her own air-conditioned trailer.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 1000, f5, 1/30 sec.

The Girl With The Tattoo

The China Burger

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A relatively recent addition to the local night market, the China Burger is a misnomer. It is actually a burger-shaped pancake with neither buns nor meat patty. More like an egg muffin blended with a choice of real prawn, chicken, squid or seaweed fillings. Yumz.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 1250, f4, 1/400 sec.

The China Burger