Oriental sadness…

No, no…don’t worry! This isn’t going to be about my China Doll mistress who has absconded with all my hard-earned and saved money. LOL!!! It’s just that when I was at a bakery in Sungai Merah the other day, I saw these…

For reasons known only to them, they were labelled as “oriental wife biscuits”.

I was somewhat amused by the name and I thought that they would be something like the sun biscuits from Taiwan that my ex-student/friend, Alex, gave me sometime ago when he went there on vacation so I bought two of those to try. Unfortunately, they came nowhere near – in fact, I would say that they were not nice at all. It was mostly pastry (with a not-too-pleasant floury texture) with some hardly-visible almond essence-flavoured butter filling…

At RM1.20 a piece, I don’t think it is value for money, not at all.

Actually, I dropped by that bakery because I wanted to get those buns (also RM1.20 each)…

…that my friend, Philip, in the US loved a great deal. He would buy a couple and go over to the coffee shop next door to enjoy them, washed down with the best coffee in town – kopi kau (extra strong coffee) with a generous scoop or two of condensed milk.

The bread is nice and soft and for one thing, they’re quite generous with the very smooth and fine tau sar (black bean paste) filling inside…

The last time I had those was when Philip bought me a few to try and I had not had them since…so I thought I would get myself a few that day and enjoy them for morning or afternoon tea. Personally, I would say they’re pretty nice, not bad at all…and something different for a change from the usual noodles and stuff.