These mini-cakes are so common by now. Where ever you go, you can see them either being sold openly or packed in bags. And as usual, I hated them. They're nothing more than dry and/or hardened min sponge cakes. And oily too.
However, during the weekend, my Mom bought a new version. Its really different. Or, maybe everyone is sick of them and the seller/maker came up with something new. Its easy to do that but why wait until more than a decade?
I tell you why. We as Malaysians are no different than monkeys in a zoo. As soon as one gets a good idea and starts to market it, everyone would follow. Ah, but here is an interesting fact. The first monkey did not bother about copyrights. And so, for years, the other monkeys just follow and copy his idea. Its so easy too.
Then now, another monkey decided to mix the batter to have more flavours. And I can bet you, sooner or later, there would be a lot of flavours to choose from. And the rest of the other monkeys would just follow. I'll bet, if you just ask them, how they did it, their answer could very well most probably, loosely, in this form, "I dunno. THEY did it, so I also want to do lor." And its illegal to hit them on the head until it cracks, monkey or no monkey.
Still some of the flavours would be:
1) Strawberry/Blueberry/Raspberry/Orange jam fillings
2) Durian/Pandan/Coconut/Red Bean fillings
3) Coffee/Chocolate flavours
But what I am interested in are:
1) Chicken pie/Tuna fillings
2) Orange and/or Vanilla mix flavours
3) Chocolate coated vanilla flavours, and so on
However, during the weekend, my Mom bought a new version. Its really different. Or, maybe everyone is sick of them and the seller/maker came up with something new. Its easy to do that but why wait until more than a decade?
I tell you why. We as Malaysians are no different than monkeys in a zoo. As soon as one gets a good idea and starts to market it, everyone would follow. Ah, but here is an interesting fact. The first monkey did not bother about copyrights. And so, for years, the other monkeys just follow and copy his idea. Its so easy too.
Then now, another monkey decided to mix the batter to have more flavours. And I can bet you, sooner or later, there would be a lot of flavours to choose from. And the rest of the other monkeys would just follow. I'll bet, if you just ask them, how they did it, their answer could very well most probably, loosely, in this form, "I dunno. THEY did it, so I also want to do lor." And its illegal to hit them on the head until it cracks, monkey or no monkey.
Still some of the flavours would be:
1) Strawberry/Blueberry/Raspberry/Orange jam fillings
2) Durian/Pandan/Coconut/Red Bean fillings
3) Coffee/Chocolate flavours
But what I am interested in are:
1) Chicken pie/Tuna fillings
2) Orange and/or Vanilla mix flavours
3) Chocolate coated vanilla flavours, and so on
And no, I do not want to be the next monkey since I know nuts about making these
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[Left] Coffee flavour with chocolate bits
[Right] Normal flavour with raspberry fillings
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