Why amazing? Well, on my recent trip to Bandung… my boss can’t seems to stop taking this thing known as Kecap Manis… and ABC seems to be the popular brand with everyone. Fried rice, cumi (squid), prawns, anything he eats, he had to have kecap manis with it, he is just short of taking it with pancake, but he did suggest for someone to try it that way, hehe :P.
Well, I can’t blame him, this dark and sweet sauce is really not bad, especially when they chopped up some bird chilies (cili padi) and mix it with kecap manis, just take a little with your rice or dishes, taste really good. Its also good for cooking with things like squid or prawns.
I googled around and I was surprised that they even sold it on Amazon.com!!! Its not expensive, I brought back the small 140ml bottle, cost about RM1.20 and you don’t really need a lot to go with your food. On the label you can see some of the main ingredents are things like sugar, water, salt, soy bean, wheat and sodium benzoate (aka preservative).
Yesterday, during tea, Joe was telling me that when he was kid he remember, we used to have a similar kind of dark soy sweet sauce here in Malaysia as well, and I sort of remember vaguely that I used to had something like this when I was young too! Any idea if we have something similar here in Malaysia?
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 am
I live in the US and use ABC kicap manis medium sweet. I still find it a bit sweet for my taste. It is better than most of the other brands from China.