It's like the old shell game, except they all turn up winners.
These putu piring, or steamed rice-flour cakes, were snowed under by grated coconut. Wrapped while still warm, the airy cakes (three for S$1.00, about 75 U.S. cents at the time) absorbed fragrance from shards of pandan leaves. One cake has been flipped to reveal the palm sugar payload.
Traditional Haig Road Putu Piring
670 Geylang Rd. (at Onan Rd., inside the Mr. Teh Tarik food court), Singapore
(From a summer 2010 visit)
