BATU PAHAT YESTERYEARS

Saturday, 9th August 2008
BP PULUT TERIGU TASTE SIMILAR SINCE 1970s
We chanced upon this Pulut Terigu seller (terigu is a Portuguese word for wheat), who still hawks around Batu Pahat city in his yesteryear's antique pushcart and we revelled that we could just soak in the nostalgic feeling of perhaps the 1970s, standing around for that bowl of delicious pulut.
We chanced upon this Pulut Terigu seller (terigu is a Portuguese word for wheat), who still hawks around Batu Pahat city in his yesteryear's antique pushcart and we revelled that we could just soak in the nostalgic feeling of perhaps the 1970s, standing around for that bowl of delicious pulut.
I have asked him, Mr Mahalingam if he has been peddling for a long time to which he said, only a few years, so I guessed it was not the same bubur terigu seller but perhaps his relative or father.
I simply forgot to ask for his stationery address or at least a contact as we would have lost this chance again to relive this moment. The customers that day all went for a second bowl and were even shy enough to mention that it was good and yummilicious, but merely added that they were hungry.


For RM1 per bowl, it is still cheap given the growing inflation since yesteryears which cost perhaps 20cents then ?
I simply forgot to ask for his stationery address or at least a contact as we would have lost this chance again to relive this moment. The customers that day all went for a second bowl and were even shy enough to mention that it was good and yummilicious, but merely added that they were hungry.

For RM1 per bowl, it is still cheap given the growing inflation since yesteryears which cost perhaps 20cents then ?
Re-living that moment of yesteryear's Pulut Terigu taste, so nice
the pulut was slightly oversized




I have enjoyed a bowl of bubur terigu (pei chook) or pulut hitam (or chook) the same way since long before when a seller came around our estate in Batu Pahat Garden peddling his pulut terigu by sounding his horn, the old fashioned way. We would do the same and gather around the cart for the wonderful whiff of bubur terigu aroma and the smooth velvety taste that comes after. This was the same taste I have remembered and tasted before. It was of course an exciting moment that Batu Pahat stood still since time immemorial despite the developments and changes that have moulded the outskirts of the city.






Mr Mahalingam had it the same way as the yesteryear's pulut terigu though

Pulut Terigu is now half tank , to refill at Johor?

Pulut Hitam and I think mixed with Pulut Terigu which was actually the tastier of the two



Till we meet again, the taste lingers on............