KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 — Ever eaten “chiam chiam rojak”?

If you have been to Seberang Perai, you may have come across it. Some also call it “fruit stick” or “batang rojak”.

The concept is similar to lok-lok, where ingredients (in this case, it is mostly cut fruits) are pierced with a skewer. You select which skewer you want and dip it in a vat of thick rojak sauce.

You can now taste this here in Taman Desa as Chang Phei Yee is carrying on her mother, Soh Song Me’s legacy in Kuala Lumpur.

Dip it in the ‘rojak’ sauce that is thick and fragrant.

Her mother used to run her own stall back in Bukit Mertajam. However, with the pandemic, she has now moved here to be with Chang.

With this venture, Chang hopes to learn her mother’s recipes and carry on her business.

At the food truck parked across from Restoran Sepetang in Taman Desa, you can pick the various skewers for RM1.60.

Usually there’s a minimum of 12 varieties but it depends on availability of say the fruits, which they source fresh from the wet market. Sometimes, items are not available due to supply issues.

Cool down with their shaved ice dessert too with grass jelly, red bean paste, fruits and a generous topping of toasted peanuts.

The day I visited, I counted about 14 different skewers. I spotted mango, ambra, papaya, cucumber, pineapple, yam bean (sar kot), cherry tomatoes and guava.

For the deep fried items, there’s cucur, beancurd puffs, yau char kwai, fish balls and beancurd. You also have hard boiled quail eggs with cucumber, an unusual item we rarely see in the Klang Valley for rojak.

Once you select the items, you have the option to either leave it on the skewer and take away the sauce in a separate container to dip it in. Or if you prefer the conventional way, they can remove the items from the skewers and toss it with the sauce.

Since there’s a few tables on the pavement near the row of food trucks that were selling chee cheong fun and deep fried fritters, I ate my rojak there.

You can select the skewers you wish to include with your ‘rojak’ whether it’s deep fried items or your favourite fruits.

As these were kept on the skewers, it was fun dipping it in the sauce since it meant a higher ratio of sauce for each piece. It does take a bit of effort to remove it from the skewers though.

The sauce is thick and tasty with a hint of prawn paste. Ask for it to be sprinkled with lots of peanuts too.

I often find rojak that is pre-mixed and packed for takeaway gets watery quite fast since fruits tend to emit moisture after some time. This method makes it easier to eat the rojak on the go.

You also can enjoy their shaved ice dessert too. It’s RM6.50 for a small portion and RM7.50 for a large one.

Once you have chosen, the skewers are placed on a plate and you can either keep it on the skewers for dipping or they remove it and toss it with the sauce.

The shaved ice dessert may not have the finest ice but I enjoyed it since it wasn’t too sweet. They drizzle a little gula Melaka syrup over it but it is the toppings that give it flavour.

You have grass jelly, a soft red bean paste that wasn’t too sweet and chopped fruits like pineapple and mango. It is crowned with a generous sprinkle of ground toasted peanuts.

It’s not only rojak and shaved ice desserts being sold under this brand. There will be nasi lemak too but at a separate location.

Chang tells Malay Mail that she is preparing to open a nasi lemak stall inside a kopitiam located at Pudu soon.

Find the food truck parked with the other trucks just opposite Restoran Sepetang in Taman Desa.

The headliner will be nasi lemak cooked using her mother’s recipe. You also have their own spin on chicken curry and unusual curries with prawn and fish too.

BM Aunty Chiam Chiam Fruit Rojak Penang, Food truck parked opposite Restoran Sepetang, Jalan Desa Bakti, Taman Desa, Kuala Lumpur. Open: 11am to 9.30pm. Closed on Monday. Tel:016-5210510.

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