Traditional Biscuits

Visit to Singapore Traditional Biscuits

When I was as child my next door neighbour owned a provision shop nearby. I remember bringing 30 cents to buy biscuits from his shop. In those days he would use a small piece of newspaper, fold it into a triangle holder, and fill it with the tiny round biscuits from a large round glass container. The icing sugar in pink, white, yellow, orange or green colour on top of these biscuits was delicious. Biscuit maker Khong Guan sells them as Fancy Gems (S$1.30).

You can hardly see those large round containers now. But you can still find these traditional biscuits in rectangular tins in wet markets. The biscuits are sold by weight. One of my favourite is pineapple jam biscuits (below) which now cost S$7.60 per kg.

                                          

My mother’s favourite is cream crackers and she likes to dip them in hot coffee. She also pounds them till they resemble bread crumbs and uses them to make pork chop.

Khong Guan sells these traditional biscuits in small packs in supermarkets. The individually packed ones cost slightly more but that keeps the biscuits fresh and crispy. My two favourite flavours are Lemon Puff (S$1.95) and Sultana Biscuits (S$2.55).