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  • When her grandmother made a special kind of tapioca cookie called kuih bangkit, for instance, she'd pay special attention to how the flour was prepared.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • When her grandmother made a special kind of tapioca cookie called kuih bangkit, for instance, she'd pay special attention to how the flour was prepared.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • When her grandmother made a special kind of tapioca cookie called kuih bangkit, for instance, she'd pay special attention to how the flour was prepared.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • When her grandmother made a special kind of tapioca cookie called kuih bangkit, for instance, she'd pay special attention to how the flour was prepared.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • If her experiment steaming the rice flour mixture is successful, she will make the cake, called kuih lapis, again next month.

    Centredaily.com: Local 2010

  • For sweet dishes, it is used in tong sui (sweet soup), kuih muih (local cakes) and the dish that Rokh gives us a recipe for, Hak Lor Mai or Sweet Black Glutinous Rice.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #10 Recap Still Discovering New Herbs Kalyn Denny 2005

  • For sweet dishes, it is used in tong sui (sweet soup), kuih muih (local cakes) and the dish that Rokh gives us a recipe for, Hak Lor Mai or Sweet Black Glutinous Rice.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Kalyn Denny 2005

  • Instead, I spoke very politely to the officer; asked in a lowered voice about how my poor luggage had to go through this horrible, horrible experience; inspected the items inside it; gave one of the kuih Raya to the officer (who would wanna eat it anyway); said thank you and left.

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2004

  • I was expecting to see some Middle Eastern assortment kuih raya in the parcel too but obviously someone forgot about it.

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2004

  • Why Goddd whyyyy ... * throws leftover kuih raya to the TV screen*

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2002

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