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Today is Chap Goh Meh. The term is from the Hokkien and literally it means the fifteenth day of the month in Hokkien. It also marks the last day of the Chinese New Year celebration, but what’s so special is that this day coincides with the chinese Valentine’s Day!

On this day, women who are still available will gather all the mandarin oranges they can find and cast them into the lake hoping that her future spouce will pick them up. Of course, she will first have to write her name and contact details on the mandarin oranges so that the lucky one who picked it up will be able to contact her. That’s the custome I learned from my friends, but too bad I have not went to any of these mandarin oranges fest so I have no luck in picking up any girls.

Anyway, instead of mandarin oranges, how about we try some kompia today? Kompia (光餅) is a type of pastry available only at places such as Sibu and Sitiawan where the majority of the community are Foochow. You cannot find this food in KL, at least I have never came across any place that has this before. This is another Foochow specialties which you have to try other than the Kampua noodles I introduced to you a few days ago.

Shown here are some kompia I bought from a local store. The three pieces in the left side of the plate are the original kompia, it’s a little salty in taste, harder and slightly larger compared to the other variant at the right top. This other type tastes sweet and fluffy.

Both of them are delicious but my favorite is still the original version. They are best served hot because they tend to get hard when the pastry is cold.

OK, today you are in luck because I am going to bring you on a tour to Seng Kee Agencies who sells authentic kompia! I am no good in telling you how they make the kompia because I was too shy to ask the master there how they do it, I only asked for permission to take photos as a tourist. Hahaha. But, I am sure you can get an idea or two how to make them from the photos and start a kompia business in KL or other places other than Sibu and Sitiawan.

Enjoy the tour below… click on the thumbnails for the bigger version. The bigger version are so big they might blow you off your chair, hold tight OK?

Seng Kee Agencies is located at a shop lot along the row of shops opposite of the old bus station. The old bus station is no longer there, but Seng Kee is still here to serve us the good old kompia!

This picture was taken in front of the old bus station. We can see Wisma Sanyan standing proud as the tallest building in this region.

Tomorrow, have to work again… sien.

Tagged: biscuits, pastry, sibu, sarawak