Hock Chew-ness, Part 3 - Kong Piang-ing

Kong Piang, my ultimate reason visiting the Hock Chew town of Setiawan.

Sitiawan Cheong Cia Gong Pian, one of the two outlets selling, this one is in Setiawan, the other in Kampung Koh, 2-3km away.

Kong Piang is basically a pastry with onion fillings. They used to sell with char siew filling but no longer.
Reached the shop at 1.15pm, batch will be ready at 1.45pm.

Left..the fillings, onion and lard, on the right, the dough for the biscuit/pastry

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The clay wood coal oven for baking the biskuit. Not unlike baking naan. Metal sheet is used to direct air into the oven to flame the fire.

Hard at work. Its just a small cornet shop house outlet. 

One of the three oven of the shop.

 After filling, flattening, and making some indentation with the other end of the roller.

The way to bake. Paste it on the oven's wall. 

Metal plates are placed on top of the burning charcoal, so that hands can use to stick the Kong Piang on the oven wall.

 Cant work here if you cant stand the heat.

 Removing the metal plates after filling the oven.

Sweet fragrance of onion and lard in the air.

Fresh out from the oven. 

The 'kha chang' to remove' 

Ready to sell. RM0.80 each.

 The other type of Kong Piang, the original, without the fillings. I read they are real chewy.

The queue is already long half an hour before the first batch is ready. One aunty asked for priority since she is from out of town. The staff replied "all here queuing is from out of town, locals wont come during a holiday, so please queue!!!" Cool reply :)
The first batch from the three oven not enough to cater for the queue. So most customer would have to wait for the next batch.

See the onion fillings.

Verdict : nice and tasty pastry biscuit. Crunchy and sweet. But the filling is a bland and tasteless. 

Would I be back??

Yes for novelty, no for the taste.

PS : did try to get from the other outlet, Sin Lay.. but they are closed when I am there at around 2.00pm.