The hunt for Rempah Udang

Rempah Udang – also known as Lemper Udang and Pulut Panggang – is a kind of “Asian Tamale”. Spicy dried shrimp is wrapped by fragrant rice cooked with coconut milk, pandan and sugar and then wrapped in a banana leaf. The rice sometimes has blue dye made with a butterfly pea (bunga telan).

Places you can get it in Singapore:

• Kim Choo Kueh Chang (Katong)
  spicy, lots of filling
   
• Galicier Confectionery (Tiong Bahru)
  fragrant and complex flavours, also do a chicken version
   
• Chinta Manis (chain)
   
• Lina Confectionery (Alexadra Village)
   

And many more. I’ll work on this list as I go along…