Cockles with garlic sauce

Raw cockles can be bought from the wet markets or hypermarkets. — Filepic

For those who are regulars at the food courts in Penang, you would be familiar with the stalls selling the combo dishes of kangkung (water spinach) in shrimp paste sauce and cuttlefish, and plain boiled cockles to go with sauce. In the Klang Valley,

it’s probably more common to find stalls selling a combo of tauhu bakar (stuffed toasted bean curd) and kangkung instead of cockles.