I don't really mind the lockdown in my small little residential area. We have this shop by the neighborhood, and there is a pastry rack, and a lot of miracle happening. If any of you remember I have previously introduced a Wallet Biscuit? Well, being a crypto guy, that is a very sensitive word. Wallet and Biscuit. Wallet refers to wallet, but biscuit can anytime being interpreted as Bitcoin in the Chinese community.
There's a lot of different pastry style from different state in the country. I'm sure the shop owner does not make them all, probably a big portion of these product are consignment goods. Good thing is, at least half of them are my favorite, my childhood taste, and seeing them brings me a lot of memory and feeling comfort during these lockdown time.
Here we go! Tadaaaa! The one on the right you know what it is, it's the Wallet Biscuit I introduced a bout a week or two ago. Don't try to zoom in to see the English title, it does not match with the Chinese word. If you're going to Google translate it, here I'll give you the Chinese characters - 荷包餅. Well, that's not the craziest part, it's the one of the left! It's called Cow's Ear Biscuit. Holy!!!!
This is a totally different type of biscuit compare to the Wallet Biscuit. This is more similar to the Chicken Biscuit I've introduced previously. The shape of the biscuit being warped as a semi cone shape.
Each of these package cost RM5.50, that's about $1.25 for the record. Considering biscuit is not that expensive, but these are traditional food. I used to pay 10cent to the shop and grab a palm full of these. Now the currency value had shrunk 55 times considering the amount I pay now.
The taste of these unique shaped biscuit are kind of epic. It has a little pepper spicy into it, lightly salty. And if you don't force yourself to think it's a biscuit knowing it's a biscuit, the taste actually feels a little like meat. Probably they use similar ingredient in cooking meat to make these stuff.
And the shape? Yeah I don't know. If you're going to put a cow's picture to compare it side by side, you will be disappointed, because they don't really look like it if. But, once again, it's salty, it has pepper spicy, and if people made it the shape like cow's ear, that's probably the reason. Meat is just too expensive back in the post war days, even for ears. My best bet is, someone think of these recipe and made a dough similar taste as cooking meat, and bake these biscuit so it taste like meat, and has a longer storing shelf life.