The Kerepek Making.

Kerepek (chips) is a local and traditional fast food made by malaysian. There are so many type of Kerepek in Tanjung Karang, some of them are made from Banana fruit and some of them are made from Cassava and also from a fruit called Sukun.

Here are some pictures of how they made it.

A pile of cassavas.

These cassavas are not originally from Tanjung Karang. A villager there said they have to go to the market at town nearby to buy or the Market-man will come to their village to send them. The price is quite cheap. 1kg of cassava = Rm1.50.

Skin removal process

In this stage, they have to remove the skin of the cassava because the skin cannot be fried together.

Chips Slicing

After they finished remove the skins of the cassava, they will send like a bucket of it to the slicing part where they will slice it up into chips. Through my observation, the chips were totally thin. I think this is to make sure that people are easily eating it.

The Chips marinade

The marinate process require a bag of turmeric powder and salt. They will keep them for 10-15 minutes before the frying process.

Frying process

Because of the size and thickness, they will fry the chips like 5-10 minutes only until the 'color' is good and and crunchy enough for the customer.

Drying process.

They have a machine like in the picture where they put the fried chips into it for the drying process. It might takes a few minutes to really dry before sending it to the packaging section.