RotiDelight: CURRY CHICKEN BUN

RotiDelight:

CURRY CHICKEN BUN

By Stephen Ng (stephen2u.ng@gmail.com)

From five buns to one hundred on a good day, Chow Kim Yoon’s RotiDelight is a story of success.

The 48-year-old food proprietor from Seremban has turned her hobby into a lucrative business.

“In fact, baking has been my Number One hobby since I was a child,” she said. “I learnt baking by reading up recipe books and from my aunt who was good at baking. She used to work for the expatriates.”

Her RotiDelight is a little innovation, combining two of Malaysian’s favourite food – the curry and bread.

“When I was growing up, my mother used to cook curry chicken and asked us to buy Indian bread to dip into the sauce,” she said. “I enjoyed it a great deal. This gave me the inspiration to bake my first curry chicken bun.”

She still recalls the first bun she made in 1996. “When we first tested the market, the response was very encouraging,” she said.

“I made five buns a day to start with but they sold out in just half an hour. This gave me the confidence to continue with this business. Our highest record to date has been more than 100 buns a day.”

First, she said, the curry is cooked using the traditional curry recipe. “It is our family recipe, with a combination of both Malay and Indian spices. We use 24 different types of natural herbs and spices to give the curry a very special taste,” she said.

The curry chicken is then wrapped in an aluminium foil before being wrapped with another layer of plastic. The whole thing is subsequently wrapped with the bun. “This way, we are able to preserve the heat up to eight hours,” she said.

Weighing 1.5 kilogrammes on the average for a large bun, Chow said RotiDelight is probably the largest bun in the market. The medium size buns weigh one kilogramme, while the smallest bun is 400 grammes.

“We want to make RotiDelight – or RD, in short – to be simply the name for curry chicken wrapped in a giant bun. The reason why it is a bun is because it is basically a round bread,” she said.

“Pork or seafood curry buns can also be arranged by special orders,” she said.

RotiDelight is sold at U Lucky Restaurant, No 76, Jalan Toman 4, Kemayan Square, Seremban. Tel: 06-7674076 / 016-9292055.

PICTURE CAPTIONS:

IMG6801, 6824: Chow Kim Yoon with her Roti Delight

IMG6818: Roti Delight is a big bun wrapping the curry chicken packed in aluminium foil to keep it warm

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