I am reading your arcticle from Japan being imprressed by and appreciating for your greatest experiment of "roti canai". I have had a kind of yearning for making roti canai since I visited Malaysia for the first time. Your achievement helps me tremendously and many many thanks to your sharing, I finally could make my first roti canai ever in my life! I could not thank you enough. I am enjoying practicing flip-flopping dough.
But at the same time I have some questions about roti canai/prata.
1. Do professional prata men usually put more Ghee/Butter or vegetable oil in dough than your recipe? Because at my first attempt, I used vegitable oil just as much as following your instruction (Enriched version). But it crucially lacks richness and sweet aroma compared to the street roti canai in Malaysia. So, at second attempt I put in Ghee in dough. This time, it smelled good and rich with slightly sweet flavour of Ghee, but I thought it is still not enough mild and soft. After heating the dough on the pan, it became like "hard and dried out". Please refer to the attahced image. But at this time I used again vegetable oil for flip-flopping (Because in Japan Ghee is more expensive...)
2. Do you possibly know how to cook "redish dip sauce (with green beans?)" which is ALWAYS served with roti canai? I' am trying to find the recipe online, but I could not reach the right one... It is another biggest mistery of roti canai. I don't think it is chicken curry.