Can you believe that they actually sell this at World Market?? I found it there a few weeks back and was so excited. It's been quite a long time since I've had this. I used to bring this to school for recess treat when I was in primary school. At that time, it was just a regular 'kiam pia' from pasar malam. There's two different kind of 'kiam pia' (it translates as 'salty biscuit' but it's not salty but cream crackers doesn't sound right either because there's no cream in it..oh well). One of them, the plain one, is oily and taste buttery while the sweet one is sprinkled with coarse sugar. I used to eat the sugar one by itself but I love the plain cracker with bak hu (chicken floss).
It also taste really good to dip it with ABC soup (tomoto, potato and mushroom soup). But the cream crackers was long forgotten when Gardenia came along. Grandma would buy the Twiggies for my afternoon snack and if it happens to be chocolate-filled, it'll finish in two days. Then it was Toast Em Banana Nut Bread but that was a little pricy and we eventually went back to Twiggies again. I miss all these snacks soooooo much. For some reason, similar snacks here in the States taste a lot sweeter than those in Malaysia.
Ever since I bought the cream crackers, I've been thinking about 'tau eu bak' but haven't got a chance to cook it yet. We used to dip it with plain white bread, those that does not have an external layer of toasted skin, the cheapest kind but the unhealthiest form of bread as it is just filled with air, but cream crackers would suffice for now.
Thinking back about all these simple food, I can’t help but wonder how can life become so complicated over what to eat for dinner when in our younger days, butter and sugar on white bread tastes as good as Dunkin Donuts sugar glazed donut.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Cream crackers
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9 comments:
I thought those biscuits in metal box, extinct?
looks like World Market really covers all region
I remember going there to get my chocolate supply
and those from europe instead of the lousy Hersey's
Still love butter and suger bread. It would be best steamed. Dunk it in halfboiled eggs...
Remember when you use to celup the kiam-phia over in coffee or milo? Mmmmm, it can taste so good!
owh... jase... those biscuits in milo... is heaven!
kef: haha..that's what I thought too. I still remember my grandma keeps all her old photos in these metal boxes..this is classic girl!
jase: how can I ever forget all that..those were like the best treat ever! Remember roti jari? Wonder if there are still people making them.
dark kai: yeah..healthy too!
owh... that reminds me of my late paternal grandmother.
I wonder if she's doing well wherever she is.
haahhaha
but i like the one with ping pong brand
taste better
hmm...globalisation
the conquering kiam piah of the world...
hope tht come true
This also reminds me of my grand mother. She used to keep her sewing (needles and treads) in these boxes. There used to be a Cream Crakers brand called Jacobs. My dad used to take me to their Factory near Butterworth. Usually on our way to Penang. Anyway they also make Mary (maybe it's spelled Marie) Biscuits. This used to be my fav. My brother and I used to pretend that these were poker chips, and play our some old Clint Eastwood Spegatti Western fantacy.
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