Dodol

During one of those adventure with my sister, the rascals had a taste of "dodol" (pronounced as do-dol)

This Malaysian traditional sweet candy. How do you make these dodol? Very difficult indeed. It takes a lot of stirring... heavy stirring in a gigantic wok. Why heavy?

Well... dodol starts of being very watery.. but the longer you stir, the more formed it becomes. The stirrer is a big paddle-wood like stirrer and it's usually done by the men. Of course, with technology, they have invented a much simpler stirrer to stir this candy to existence... but it is not the same value as the traditional ones.

It's sweet.. and very "liat" or tough to eat but soft. It's not tough as in can break your teeth.. it is tough like sticky... like when you try to separate a pizza slice off the whole round pizza with cheese sticking by when you pull.

Dodol is very chewy like a chewing gum.. but it definitely is something you can swallow...

Try some when you're in Malaysia... dodol now is easy to get but one will never forget its value. It brings unity because the event of stirring a dodol batch is usually done in rural areas during some celebration - like Eid Mubarak - within the family or the whole village.

The rascals really do like this - that's what my sister told me.

*picture courtesy of sister*