what kind of chinese traditional confectionaries do u like?

• crabx

  2 May 07, 17:29

  nowadays young people don't really eat those traditional chinese biscuits n pastries snacks?
  
  such as those phong piah, tau sah piah, peanut brittle candy, plait cookies etc... especially those which can be bought from those chinese pastries bakery shop like along chinatown, balestier or katong.
  
  some examples here at this link
  
  http://www.gloryfood.com.sg/snacks&crackers.html
  
  some not listed in the above link are like...
  
  one type of snack...in a shape of a sausage... then got crispy white n pink colored rice covering. inside is hollow, then the pastry inside is some sweet brown candy thing...
  
  another type is like those biscuit offered for 7 month hungry ghost.. its peanut with white n pink colored sugar coating. then also got these fried biscuit thingy.
  
  then another type is this sugary flour cake, wrapped in pink paper.
  
  then another type is this sticky kueh like thing... green color one.
  
  then also got those kind of malaysian pastries, like chicken biscuit, tau sa piah, phong piah, those mini mooncake thingy with red bean filling, etc...
  
  
• chiabaliao

  2 May 07, 18:03

  My mum always comes back with these stuff after visiting Malaysia. At one stage, these candies were used for wedding engagement before western cakes took over. But I think it is making a comeback. Many shops are doing good business.
• caleb_chiang

  2 May 07, 18:09

  Basically, I dun really have a preference... I just eat them if it appear in my home...
• The man who was death

  2 May 07, 20:11

  i like the plait cookies....it's called ma hua in taiwan.....sa qi ma i like also....