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4 5 A taste of 1 yesteryear 6 Here’s a selection of snacks that were once popular among Malaysian children. COMPILATION & STYLING TRIONA FOONG TEXT TAN LEE KUEN PHOTO PATRICK CHAN

8 7 9 1. Apollo Cream young and old alike. It has a unique and Wafer These crispy wafers come refreshing taste: Sour, sweet, bitter and covered in chocolate or milk cream. spicy all at once.

2. White Rabbit creamy 6. Lemon tablets A powder version 2 Made in since 1943, this chewy of tamarind water, Beh Kwang Chee’s candy is wrapped in a thin edible film lemon tablets contains orange skin, made of sticky rice. Such is its iconic Chinese herbs and lemon oil. Eat it to 3 status that Chinese premier help stimulate appetite, assist digestion gifted a bag of these sweets to US and curb motion sickness. 12 President Richard Nixon on the latter’s state visit in 1972. The main ingredient 7. Gem biscuits Originally 11 is milk, now sourced from and manufactured by Huntley & Palmers in the 10. Honeycomb snack Made from , after the scare UK, local versions of these biscuits were flour, egg, margarine, salt and sugar, the 13 in 2008. firm favourites among Malaysian children. honeycomb snack is also called sha qi ma Each flour biscuit is topped with a dollop in Chinese. Sold in small blocks, you’ll 3. Lobster crisp Despite of brightly-coloured hardened icing sugar. have to tear the moist, crispy and sticky 10 its name, this popular confectionery snack into pieces to eat it. does not contain seafood. Salty and a 8. Tok-tok candy Made from maltose little sweet, it consists of a crisp sweet and honey (sometimes sugar), this 11. Marukawa bubble peanut centre, covered with a thin layer traditional candy derives its name from gum Immediately identifiable by the 14 of glazed sugar and wrapped in edible the sound of the hammer and chisel cute bear mascot, it is loved for its soft rice paper. Its name comes from the thin breaking the rock hard sugar block into consistency, delicious sweetness and seeds, flour and . The chewy treat brown stripes covering the sweet, giving bite-size pieces. It is also known as gui fei large bubbles. is likely to leave seeds stuck between it a lobster-like appearance. sweets (concubine sweets) because only your teeth, so eat with care. 15. Danhua cake Made in , it the emperor’s concubines could afford to 12. Peanut brittle Hard, crunchy and has a ground peanut filling encased in 4. Preserved Chinese eat these treats back in the days of the laden with set in caramelised 14. Ground peanut cookie a crispy egg pastry. It is also available in olives Called kam lam in , dynasty. sugar, this Malaysian version of the Another version of the peanut different flavours such as seaweed and they can be found packed in threes and globally popular snack often has sesame candy, this one is made with sesame seed. twisted in a roll of paper and plastic. 9. Haw flakes Made from the of seeds in the mix. ground peanuts. It has a filling of the Chinese hawthorn, the dark pink pounded peanut kernels, white sugar 15 Where to buy Available at major 5. Preserved dried ginger A disc-like sweet is only about a millimetre 13. Peanut and sesame snack and malt sugar, enveloped by a thin, supermarkets and also Country’s Tid-Bits & specialty of the Chaozhou prefecture thick. Place one disc on your tongue and Originally from Hue in Vietnam, the tasty crispy skin. Biting into it will break the Cottage outlets in leading shopping malls across Malaysia in China, this snack is enjoyed by the let it melt slowly. is made from peanuts, sesame skin and cause the cookie to crumble.

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