25 Jan, 2011
Humans age faster than they should. In a year we would have grown 3 years. One, on our birthday, two, when we course the winter solstice festival eating glutinous rice balls, three, when we have the new year cake making us taller, or 'higher'.
Wheat Grass Water Chestnut Cake (SGD 28.80)
So with it grabbing a third of our slice of the pie it must be highly flagged and dressed! Under the work of enterprise and hotels, they are iced, ornate, festive and contemporary. So much so it may be a dense cake, a mochi, riddled with beneficial nuts or losing that glutinous nature until a nian gao is defined as anything that's cake.
P.S.(Had during the new year as long as family is by the side.) This cake tastes luminous, like jelly/agar, of strong chestnut flavour with crunchy dates and nuts between. Sliced into triangles it beams like a mahjong tile. Thirst quenching and palate-cleansing!
