Epok-Epok

These vegetable puffs are on the National Heritage list of 101 near-extinct foods. But if you listen to Johoreans, epok-epok is just what Johoreans and some Singaporeans call the karipap.

There may be a vegetable-filled – rather than the more common potato- or sweet-potato-filled – karipap called epok-epok sayur. Safiah Mahmood, better known as Kak Orkid, who served four Malaysian prime ministers and whose recipes appear in the book Selera Perdana (Cuisine Of The Premiers), says in the book that epok-epok is a type of curry puff with a vegetable filling and gives a recipe for epok-epok with a filling of bean sprouts, chives, tofu, prawn, shallot, garlic, and chilli.