Glossary B
Bang Chang Kuih refers to Chinese pancake in Malaysia. It is one of the popular hawker foods found in Penang. Bang Chang Kuih is made from flour and eggs batter, dusted with white sugar or brown sugar, and ground peanuts. Usually, a margarine and sweet corns are added to make it tastier. Other food hawkers also add additional ingredients to make other flavors, such as eggs, cheese, banana, etc. Almost the same with making regular pancakes, when there is an option to add other ingredients, like fruits, like banana, apple, raisins, cheese, choclate spread to make it more interesting.
Penang is a state in Malaysia. The food in Penang is widely regarded as the best in Malaysia.
In Germany, we have already have a ready made pancake mixture with apples and bits of chocolates or if I make my own pancake, I also like to add honey on top or to make a savory pancake, I add slices of cheese.
Banga soup is another name of Palm Nut Soup, an African soup made by extracting the liquid out of a palm fruit. It is widely eaten all over West Africa to the Cameroon and is traditionally made by boiling about 100-200 palm fruits in a pot of water for about 20 minutes until the pulp softens.
Banga soup is a soup made from the sauce squeezed from palm fruit (Elaeis guineensis) which is widely eaten all over West Africa to the Cameroon.
Bangal refers to a person from East-Bengal, now in Bangladesh.
Bangal is also called Bengali which is a language native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which is composed of present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam.