Old skool cakes
Hubby and I dropped by at the Ming Tien food court @ Tmn Megah last Sunday evening to ta pau dinner. After ordering Sarawak noodles and satay, we took a walk along the night market situated right outside the food court. Along the way, we stumbled on a stall selling cakes…lots and lots of cakes!
It’s been ages since I’ve eaten cakes like these. These are the type of cakes that you will find in fast-vanishing old bakeries that smell of vanilla essence and buttercream (and have tiny green and white mosaic tiles and cabinets with glass sliding doors where the cakes and buns are kept…oh oh…and tiny brown wooden trays for you to place the cakes you’ve chosen on…). These are the type of cakes that are light and spongy, that comes in a variety of flavours…chocolate, coffee, orange, vanilla, pandan, yam…and usually have a dash of cream sandwiched in between, and generously covered with more cream on top. These cakes, people, are seriously old skool cakes…not easy to find after a certain secret cake chain conquered the KL cake-market! 
After finishing dinner at home (plus some deep fried snacks and a bowl of tong sui - gandum, my favourite…hehe…you know what they say about shopping on an empty stomach!), hubby and I settled down on the couch and scoffed down the cakes straight from the box while watching The Covenant (which sucks sucks sucks!). The orange and the chocolate-coffee cake was absolutely wonderful, while the pandan was a bit of a letdown. Still, 2 out of 3 is still good enough! And sometimes, simple is best.
I really wouldn’t mind going to the night market again this Sunday! 
:-)
Comment by masterkenzo on 14 November 2006 @ 11:13 pm
well… at least “The Covenant” has plenty of good looking hunks :> i’m sure your favourite part is the swimming pool, right? right?
Comment by carrot on 16 November 2006 @ 10:42 am
hey hey, v told me the covenant has lotsa cute guys with “ridiculous” bodies…really ah?
BTW, just wanted to tell u that i like ur…um…banner (what do you call it?) thing on top. does it change on its own? so nice.
Comment by Joe on 16 November 2006 @ 1:41 pm
hehehe … your blog is very funny. I know exactly what you meant by old skool cake houses. Man I miss Angel cake house with its curry and sardine buns
Comment by sooyin on 16 November 2006 @ 10:38 pm
Masterkenzo: My lips are sealed!
Carrot: Hehe…you watch and see lar! Oh, the banner thingy? Yeah, it’s random. Actually, it’s rather funny…it’s supposed to be random, but somehow, it doesn’t work on Firefox, so I’ve been seeing the same banner all the time, and I thought it wasn’t working until I read your comment at work, then I tried going to my site using IE, then only I realized it was changing each time I refreshed the page.
Joe: Oh yes! Angel cake house! They used to have these mini swiss rolls that I absolutely love! What happened to Angel cake house? I don’t recall seeing it around anymore…fond memories, man!
Comment by carrot on 17 November 2006 @ 12:47 am
*gasp* so i helped you realise it was working? yay, me!
Comment by sooyin on 19 November 2006 @ 9:37 am
Carrot: Err…one point for you, then?
Comment by Deion on 2 December 2006 @ 12:21 pm
Hi Ms Soo Yin
I am Deion here from Angel Cake house i seen your blog about the Mini swiss roll that u’r looking for, do u mean the horizontal roll that will all those nice decoration on top it?? if yes ya actually we r still having it, well if u wan it i can arrange it to the nearest outlet for u get it i’ll give u a 20% discount for it, and i will follow up why is the horizontal roll keep missing and customer cant get it. Hope to get more opinion from u ^^
Comment by sooyin on 3 December 2006 @ 9:30 pm
Hi Deion…thanks for your comment. The mini swiss rolls were just plain swiss rolls…I think the last time I ate it was more than 10 years ago!
No worries, don’t need to go through all that trouble…will drop by one day and see if I get lucky!