Mua Chee and Lor Mai Chee

Last week, when we did the walk about around the OUG morning market, I found this stall selling mua chee and lor mai chee, so I snapped some pictures to show them in action.

Mua Chee is a dessert or snack that is popular at street hawkers. You can make the mua chee dough by mixing glutinous rice flour and water. Once the dough is mixed, it is usually boiled or steamed till it is light and puffy. This dough is then tossed and cut up in a grounded up mixture of roasted peanuts and sugar as seen below.



Here is a packet of Mua Chee all ready to eat. It reminds me a bit like the Japanese mochi you eat at restaurants.



Besides mua chee, this couple was also making Lor Mai Chee which is made from the same ingredients except instead of tossing the glutinous rice flour dough in peanuts, the inside is filled with ground peanuts. It is then shaped in a ball and tossed in some flour. Pretty unusual to see someone making it fresh as usually you get them ready made.



Here is the Lor Mai Chee ready to eat still within it's plastic packaging. They are also known as snow balls by some and they can have different kinds of fillings like grated coconut, red bean paste or even lotus paste. In Hong Kong, there are even some dessert shops that fill these dumplings with mango and durian.