Putu Piring is a traditional Malaysian sweet, with similarities to sweets in Indonesia and the Philippines. Apparently Melaka is the best place to get them, and, also apparently, Putu Piring Tengkera (also known as Putu Piring Melaka) is the best place to get them in Melaka – both seem to be true given inferior, if significantly cheaper, examples in KL and elsewhere in Melaka. They are steamed rice flour cakes, stuffed with gula Melaka, a relatively unrefined palm sugar – and served on a banana leaf with salted coconut.
PPT is a small family business, which opens Monday to Saturday from 6pm until 10pm (or until they run out of ingredients). I don’t think I’ve ever seen it open without a huge queue, and whenever we have been we have had to wait for at least 15 minutes to get to the front. Each cake is about the circumference of a normal mug and about a finger width thick; they cost RM1.10 per cake.
The first time I went, I’d recently had putu piring from a stall on Jonker Walk, and they were small and a bit dull, so I wasn’t convinced about making the journey. Wife assured me these would be better, and they were. The salt really brings out the rich flavour of the sugar rather than leaving them flat and simply sweet.
Address: 252 Jalan Tengkera, 75200 Melaka
Telephone: 062821505
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Putu-Piring-Melaka-1410584492514527/
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