If you find yourself craving for delicacies that can be found only in specific places in the country, and cannot find these being sold in an SM store near you, then you can try to recreate these delicacies at home. There are a few people who have tried and succeeded in copying these region-specific baked goodies, and you can try to do so too. You can start by scouring the web for recipes that claim to be authentic and copy-cats of these pastries.
Don’t just rely on one recipe when you do this. Try to locate at least three or four, and compare the ingredients as well as the procedures that are being used for each. You can easily see some similarities in both the ingredients and processes being used in the making of such items.
Try to get the exact same ingredients that are being stated in these recipes. For example, if the recipe calls for rice flour, then you should look for rice flour. If it says sticky rice flour, then sticky rice flour should be what you buy for your copycat efforts.
If you cannot find these ingredients, you can actually try to make these yourself. For example, sticky rice flour – you can get raw grains of sticky rice and pulse these in your food processor until you have a flour-like consistency. The same goes for rice flour, and other special flours that you may need to use for your recipes.
If your first attempt is not successful, do not despair. You can always try again and use another variation to the recipe until you find the one that tastes and looks like the delicacy that you remember from your trip or from when someone brought home these goodies for you.
Not all delicacies have recipes online and for a good reason. The recipes used to create these have been handed down from generation to generation, and are rarely shared with people outside of the families that made these. You can try to experiment and capture the texture and flavor of these regional goodies by remembering what these flavors and textures are and using ingredients that you know can bring out such a combination.
