'Chee cheong fun' are square rice sheets which are used in
Singaporean cuisine and
Malaysian cuisine
The sheets are made from a viscous mixture of
rice flour and water. This liquid is poured onto a specially-made flat pan in which it is steamed to produce the square rice sheets. Chee cheong fun can be served with different flavour of sauce. In Malaysia, most of the people prefer serving Chee cheong fun with one kind of black sweet sauce called "timzheong"(甜酱). Some other prefer specially-made chilli sauce or mix two kind of sauce together.
There is another kind of food which is similar with Chee cheong fun called "laicheong"(拉腸) in Cantonese. This food is popular in
Hong Kong and
Guangzhou. The difference between Chee cheong fun and "laicheong" is "laicheong" does serve with stuffing (such as
shrimp, pork or dough sticks) but Chee cheong fun does not. Besides, people use different sauce to serve these two kinds of food.
Chee cheong fun is a popular breakfast food in
Singapore and
Malaysia. Chee cheong fun is frequently served in
kopitiams and Chinese restaurants.