remember the titans eh, taucu!

remember when gulai taucu used to be very delicious? sweet, a bit sour, mostly salty, rasa payau sebenarnya, but still it was my favourite back then. Taucu, is actually a mixture of soy beans, fermented. Best served with ikan kayu or ikan kembong or ikan sepat, and the fish has to be fried first. Gets it's sweetness from a lot of shallots and cucumber, and sometimes we spinkle sugar to taste. Beside that, taucu is cooked with lots of ginger and garlic.

anyway, when i cooked taucu now, i have to put in a lot of chillies to add spicy taste. I take rice with taucu and chopped cili api with soy sauce, as if the taucu's gravy is not salty enough. But i don't do much taucu nowadays, i'd go for ikan sambal, tomyam, ikan singgang or plain chicken soup. It's either sour, spicy or sweet, not all of them in one dish.

kelantanese, they put santan with taucu, i think would add creamy taste to it. So creamy, salty, sour and sweet. That's why kelantanese are different, wink*. (but heh, santan dalam taucu??)

menyimpang jauh nya aku.. actually i wanted to write about how life is different years ago. When taucu is delicous, and when food is not over rated. But, yeah, forget it. Let's cook taucu.