Ondeh Ondeh

My sisters used to send my nieces over to my mother’s home so that these young girls could learn cooking techniques from mama (maternal grandmother). Recently, one of these nieces gave an account of these lessons. The only thing my mother taught them was ondeh ondeh which she considered was the first and easy step to Nonya cooking. Because my mother was so fastidious and impatient, they never ventured beyond ondeh ondeh. Moreover, my mother simply used her fingers to do ‘everything’. She me