Sunny
An old confectionery shop is like a familiar faced-old friend. LE, or Lee Eng; poised pretty grasses. We met on our way to the doctor's.
"You have changed so much!" So have you. Still, we know that you have been doing well with the 'forever' wedding buttercream cakes, not the tiered kind, but cherry ganache; the closest one goes to describing the suit/flush, of inebriation one sends/receives them in old-school packages of weddings from a previous era.
Looking around the carpenter's-undertaking shop, only LE can take the blow,(like ancestral premier confectionery names), evergreen Teck Kee Tanglin pau, or bak kwa for Bee Cheng Hiang. That will suffuse for front-lines, suitable for any occasion. Here, it is containers of love letters all year round.
Pandan Love Letter (SGD 19.00)
There is no wrong axing love letter out of the chinese new year, just like pineapple tarts or chinese rice dumplings found perennially in stores. There is only falter in proposing new year resolutions at 01/01; or start of a new term. Next time if I own a radio station, or for oneself; I would propose the resolutions on a special occasion, for example the mooncake festival or dragonboat festival!
Pandan, like squid ink here, attributes the carbohydrate with life, but many a times it tugs on the heart. Coconut; pale like the moon, and it sounds out the sixth sense. No coconut more intense on the browned or chalcedony side; bewilderingly sound if roasted for a more intelligible flavour, or cold for a greener aftertaste. However there is no pandan anywhere. Love letter; kueh ???????? How can this be when it is not greasy at all; like no pork and no lard for 'kueh', and no sweet-nothings for 'biscuit'. Must be the doings of coconut, pandan? LE takes 1 again; and for being exceptionally crispy.
Kueh belanda, or kueh kapit rolled, and one remembers these letters of feelings. Pandan juice; mature fibres only, not the old leaves or young shoots.
P.S. Still, it shatters with buttercream cakes found all over the island in hdb commercial retail refrigerators. Strawberry jams and old-style slices; not necessarily the traditional wedding congratulatory gifts, this shows how long one has not been in contact with historic businesses.
