The 'karipap' Story

Tengok cerita Karipap Minah earlier on kat tv buat aku tersenyum on certain scenes. Walaupun cerita dia very loose, tapi bolehla untuk hiburan ringan.

Berbicara pasal karipap, it often reminded me of how I love this kuih when I was a young boy. Kalau dulu dulu, Kuih manis? Out of the list. Tapi kalau karipap tu, setakat 10 bijik aku boleh telan sambil senyum jerk.

Tho my mum knows a lot about ‘kuih’ making, ‘karipap’ is not one of them.. perhaps, that was a contributing factor that at that time, bila tengok karipap jer, mesti selera aku terbuka. Yela, kalau nak makan kuih kuih lain, sebut jerkan? Sure dia boleh buat, and until now, aku masih ingat, kalau ‘karipap’ tu, aku mostly suka karipap arwah isteri arwah Cikgu Seman (Osman), guru besar Sekolah Kebangsaan Kampung Sri Pantai (Walking Down the Memory Lane? Duhhh), yang dia jual kat Kedai Runcit Arwah Pak Long Sulong (Masya Allah, ramainya yang dah jadi arwah). Dia punya karipap Keledek memang sedap.

Kat Mersing ni (the place where I grew up), karipap keledek is the most popular one. Unlike in KL, most of them cari karipap kentang or sardine (was it because of the lifestyle? I don’t know). Kat Mersing juga, there are lots of them who loves karipap ikan or people call it ‘tembosa’ (this karipap was originally from Terengganu). Normally they made the filling using ikan kembong or ikan Selayang (KLites call it ikan Sardin), campur santan, halba, and other basic ingredients. Kacau sampai kering until jadi macam serunding. So far, aku tak pernah jumpa lagi tembosa ni kat KL... KECUALI!!!!!!... aku buat sendiri untuk puaskan halwa tekak. Haha.

As for karipap, when my sister kerja part time kat kantin sekolah some years ago, she acquire quite a good skill making this karipap and over certain period of time, karipap is her sole source of income. Bertitik tolak dari situ, I learn from her on the karipap making, alter a little bit here and there (among my family members – I was known as a peng’alter’ masakan, sebab aku suka cakap aku punya resipi normally taste better sbb aku alter). Kalau aku suruh kakak ipar aku masak, she would normally sound aku mcm ni!!! “Hai!! Ko punya masakan kan org tak leh challenge!! Tak reti reti nak masak sendiri...!!” I would normally gelak with that remarks, but I guess in her heart she knew that she is always one of my cooking mentor. And true enough, she has this magical touch when it comes to food...

Other type of karipap yang aku pernah jumpa is karipap telur, karipap sayur, karipap daging and ayam. Kat KL ni, dulu dulu... aku pernah jadi pelanggan tetap karipap kentang + telur yang ada jual kat foodcourt Lot 10; RM1 sebijik tapi sangat sedap bagi aku. Then aku suka karipap sardine sorang makcik ni, dia jual kat depan CITIBANK Jalan Ampang. Tapi sekarang dua dua karipap ni tak tau mana pergi dah, aku tak jumpa lagi. The next almost nice karipap yang aku jumpa sekarang is dekat IKEA, tapi aku bukan la fan karipap ni, cuma kalau Adan beli, aku tumpang sekaki.

Sampai sekarang aku masih tercari cari atau mencuba cuba untuk menghasilkan karipap yang sedap, tapi masih gagal, kalau aku buat sendiri pun aku rasa mcm biasa jer... nothing special. Tapi pada siapa siapa yang nak order tu, here’s the price list:-

Karipap Sardin / Kentang / Keledek : RM 1.00/3 pcs
Karipap Ikan : RM 0.40/pc
Karipap Daging / Ayam : RM 0.50/pc
Karipap Jumbo Kentang + 1/4 egg : RM 1.00/pc

Untuk tontonan umum, kat bawah ni ada gambar karipap yang aku amik masih Cik Juffrina order untuk majlis kenduri kat Putra Heights beberapa minggu sudah.