PETALING JAYA, April 7 -- - Random food finds always taste better. Maybe the food is sprinkled with a magic element of surprise?

It was pure coincidence I stumbled upon this fried rice cake stall.

What piqued my interest was the golden brown "sandwiches" of fried nian gao, sweet potato and taro (or yam as everyone calls it here) being fried in hot oil.

Being the forever inquisitive person, I bought a piece of their Fried Rice Cake (RM3 for one piece, RM5 for two pieces) to just test it out.

Before I even got to my car, I was munching on it already.

What struck me was its perfect ratio of sweet potato, yam and rice cake, enveloped in a crispy hug of fried, light batter.

Here, the rice cake was gooey when eaten hot from the wok, retai...