The Siobee Craze At Home

My Third Aunt - mom's sister - had retired recently. She found that she had too much time in her hands and got restless. Then, she found part-time work near her house - making siobee dumplings. The siobee filling had been pre-mixed by the business owners (I'm not sure which one though) .... all Third Aunt and workers had to do were to wrap them in wanton skin and shape them into balls. Third Aunt could wrap about 1,000 pieces a day ... and earned about RM40.00 for her day's work.

Of course, the ingredients and the seasoning that went into the siobee were a kept secret, so Third Aunt could only guess what went inside the filling. And so began a siobee craze at home .... Second Aunt started making them, and then Mom jumped in the bandwagon. Mom's recipe for her siobee filling was a combination of her sisters' and also her research from online sources.

She had made the siobee twice already in just two weeks, and today she made it a third time.

Freshly steamed 

Oooh .... it looked like those we got from the shop. But while the texture was alright, Mom's siobee was too bland. Lol. She needed to tweak her recipe a little bit more. Hmn .... so it looked like I'd be having siobee for breakfast for the next week .... and with lots of chilli sauce to flavour them too. :))