bread

When I was in Malaysia I really like to eat the Gardenia bread. You know, with Uncle Slocumm's recipe. Gardenia's bread selling point in my eyes is their softness but full felling of the bread. Eating it with pandan kaya for breakfast is absolutely the ultimate breakfast (along with the long ultimate breakfast list we can find in Malaysia).

When I was in school Gardenia taps into a known teritorry which is the small and already-filled bread and makes it even better. Nowadays we can find a variety from this type of bread. From kaya to red beans, from chocolate to vanilla, from sambal ikan bilis to kari ayam, they have it all. This was quite the popular choice when people want to tend to their hungry pangs.

I don't know when but then came High 5. I guess they do what Gardenia does. We can literally see the similarity in their product line up. Maybe they think they are rivals to Gardenia. But frankly, do Gardenia's people give a flying monkey's fart about High 5? Must ask their marketing people.

Fast forward to 2009. Now I always shop at PLUS despite its status as the more expensive chain amongst the cheap groceries store. Why? Because it's the nearest to my current house. However, I don't really mind. Once I saw a documentary on the idiot box. They compare they price of 30 things people usually buys as their weekly groceries at 4 of these stores; PLUS, LIDL, ALDI and PENNYMARKT. The result was; PENNYMARKT won the race by a humongous 50 cents, ALDI and LIDL have exactly the same price at second place and PLUS came in last by the extravagant sum of, I think, 23 cents or something. Haji Bakhil also don't mind that kind of money.

Oops, got off track. Anyway since I started shopping at PLUS I began to buy their breads and their breads is so soft. Genuss I tell you, genuss! Put little bits of margarine and sugar on top of it. Bake for about 10 minute. Great stuff.

But you know what, nothing beats celuping (dipping) biskut lutut into piping hot coffee on a rainy days watching the raindrops in Malaysia. Now don't ask me what biskut lutut is.