Tikoy: Kung Hei Fat Choi!
February 9, 2007
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Tikoy is someting I will forever associate with my late paternal grandfather. No, he wasn’t Chinese but he had this love affair with Chinese food and cuisine. It was from him that I learned the rudiments of siomai-making. He was very fond of tikoy. When I was a kid and celebrating the Chinese New Year was not a big thing among Filipinos, my grandfather would buy and cook tikoy, Chinese New Year or not. Funny thing is, although I knew that tikoy was made from glutinous rice flour, that was all I knew about it.
According to Celia, tikoy is made with glutinous rice flour, wheat starch, water and sugar—and it is the kind of sugar used that determines whether the tikoy is light or dark. Well, these days, there are a lot of other varieties aside from light and dark tikoy since it now comes in so many flavors—ube, pandan, melon… Progress, eh? Not only that. Tikoy now comes vacuum packed (above).
The tikoy has evolved into different shapes and designs too. Above, a koi-shaped tikoy. Hmmm… koi tikoy hehehe
So… yesterday, we enjoyed our first tikoy of the season. I added some sesame seeds just for kicks and it turned out to be a good idea after all. I don’t even know when exactly the Chinese New Year falls in 2007 but, nevertheless, Kung Hei Fat Choi!
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Kung Hei Fat Choi, Ms. Connie!
Here in Shanghai new year celebration starts on the night of February 17, weeklong holiday is from Feb 18-24, 2007.
Hi Ms. Connie,
Thank you for sharing your great recipes. I’m 23 yrs. old and just learning how to cook. Actually I made the corned beef pande sal and it was a succes. Its a keeper in our house. We are actually celebrating Chinese New Year this year which falls on Febuary 18, 2007. I’m part chinese and filipino and my husband is Puertorican. Both my daughter and hubby LOVES filipino food. I’m looking for emapanada recipe with a sweet dough (not too sweet). Again thank you soooooo much, Ms. Connie. Kung Hei Fat Choi!
i haven’t had tikoy since i left the philippines (1996). these pictures are making me hungry!!!
hi connie,
according to my calendar, chinese new year is on sunday, feb 18. welcome, the year of the pig! kong hei fat choi!
Kung Hei Fat Choi, Ms. Connie and to your family!
I like tikoy too but these days nauumay na ako since friends keep on sending us this delights and we bought too for giveaways.
Lunar New Year if on Feb 18, ahhh bountiful Chinese lauriat na naman! hehehe
Hi Connie,
I liked tikoy very much.first time i tasted it was back in 1992 and i did enjoyed it so much.
I had this recipe called butter mochi it was given to me and i tweak the recipe a bit and it turn out just like tikoy or sort of.I don’t dip them in egg and fried.Bake from the oven.I let it cool or eat the next day is better parang tikoy ang labas.
I will post photos over the next week!
Kung Hei Fat Choi is Cantonese and Gong Xi Fa Cai is Mandarin.
Ahhh so it’s next weekend. Kung hei fat choi to everyone!
Gena, so you have a blog? Won’t you share the URL with us? The butter mochi sounds intriguing.
I love tikoy and I miss it so much. And the closest to it here that I’ve had is the rice cake made with mochi flour and canned coconut milk. I wonder if that is the same thing as the butter mochi?
Hmm, I’ve never tried to fry it either, but I just might.
Hi Connie,
I do have a website mainly photos for my family back in the Phils.I will post the butter mochi photos over the next week.
oh there’s the URL! thanks, gena, looking forward to the butter mochi.
can you please help me? i need a recipe of chinese tikoy,
and the history of chinese tikoy
thank you!
uy ganun din nakita kong tikoy sa palengke!
yung korteng fishda!
school paper, joan? you ought to do your own research.
cute, no, joey?
masarap ang tikoy kahit medyo malagkit kainin kaya lang parang wala akong nkikita d2 sa supermarket d2 sa riyadh ksa
Hi … i heard about tikoy from a philipino co-worker and well i want to try it so i went to the local chinese and vietnamse market to find it but it was unsucessful. 1. i don’t know how the package look like. 2. i don’t know which aisle to look in. Please help, before the New Year end, thanks!!