A fake Timphan?

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false timphan

Have you ever known about Timphan? It is a special traditional food from Aceh. If you're living in Jakarta, it's not difficult to find that food. Many Acehnese coffee shops provide Timphan on their menu.

Timphan is made from glutinous rice flour mixed with banana or pumpkin or purple yam as dough. Egg custard or sweetened coconut shred as the filling. Fill in the dough with the filling then wrap it up with young banana leaves, steam it for 30-45 minutes.

My wife @cicisaja always want to make timphan because My Father really loves that food. But, young banana leaves always an issue here in our neighbourhood. Even the travelling vegetables vendors couldn't supply any of it. But, She decided to try her luck by using plastic sheets as the wrapper, today.

egg custard with pandan pasta

She made the egg custard by cooking the mixed of a cup of eggs, a cup of sugar, one and half cup of coconut's milk. Then, she boiled about a hundred gram of pumpkin in light coconut's milk. She made dough with the pumpkin and glutinous rice flour.

timphan dough need 30 minutes to be prepare

Then, she greased the plastic wrap with cooking oil before she took some dough, fill in the dough with custard and wrap it up just like using the banana leaves, like envelope.

ready to wrap up

She didn't know how many flour she add to the dough, "as much as the dough need it" , She said. So, it's depend on how good your feeling is😰. But I assume that she add about 200-300 grams of it. She made 24 timphan this time.

preparing to be steamed

She shared half of the timphan to my sister who lives in the next block of ours, Cici knew that Mbak Asih, My sister loves timphan. She usually buy it from The Acehnese Coffee shop too. But I don't know how she will react when she got the timphan wrapped up in plastic 😂. We'll know about it tomorrow. Perhaps, She will send some young banana leaves instead.

the fake/false timphan are ready to serve

Of course, the taste will not ever be same as it is wrapped up in the banana leaf, but after all, this is what we can have. Only the fragrance of banana leaves were missing, the taste is sweet and soft just like other Timphan too, but Cici keep saying that it's a fake Timphan for her. 🤔

You know, when we have a habit and try to change it, there's a lot of things need to be adjusted. I believe that creativity sometimes emerged from the situation We face. A fake or false Timphan is Timphan. For the first time in her life, Cici made Timphan herself. She couldn't ask for it from her mother whom I know as the best Timphan maker I ever ate so far.

Ramai beragam, rimbun menyelara, peribahasa lama yang bermakna setiap orang mempunyai sifat dan kegemarannya sendiri-sendiri.

I don't care it is fake, false or true Timphan, I eat because it is my wife who makes it and I know that weren't poisonous 😂. If the Acehnese start to make Timphan so seriously, it does mean Idul Fitri is coming, Timphan is alway a special food for special occasions in Aceh.

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