When we were kids, one of our favourite things to eat was the piggy biscuit. We would have it once a year, because… well, it’s a Mooncake Festival specialty thing, isn’t it? To this day I have no idea what the piggy biscuit is properly called, so I shall call it the piggy biscuit.
The piggy biscuits are made from leftovers of the dough used to make mooncake skin. They are then molded into piggy shapes, then baked, then placed in red and yellow plastic (some say rattan) in the shape of a cage. One cage for one pig. Sort of like the cages they put real pigs in before taking them to the slaughter house. For some reason it reminded me of the scene in an old Chinese movie where they forced a woman into the same cage then drown her for adultery.
The piggy biscuits are chewy, and actually I never thought that they were any good to eat. But we used to love buying them because of their adorable-ness, and the we collected the plastic cages for our playtime. My mother remembers it being sold for 20 cents each during her day. I remember it being sold for 50 cents each during my day. Rip offs 😛
So yesterday I was in SS2 buying a birthday cake for my sisters, and I chanced upon these adorable piggy biscuits for sale!
For a second, all my childhood memories came flooding back to me, and the first person I thought of was Ryan. I don’t think he’s had a piggy biscuit before, and even if he did last year, he wouldn’t have remembered it. So I picked one up and went to the counter to pay for it.
Guess how much it cost?
FOUR BLOODY RINGGIT!!! HOLEY OF ALL MOTHERS…
Okay to be (slightly) fair, this piggy biscuit was nicely packaged, and seemed fatter than the piggy biscuits I used to have. My mom later told me that the piggy biscuit I bought has some sort of a filling… lotus paste I think. BUT STILLL!!!!!111111 RM4 can pay for an awesome plate of zhap fan!!
Oh well.
I brought it home and gave it to Ryan. He was ECSTATIC!!! Heh okay lah the money was well-spent.
Dude wouldn’t eat it though. He thinks it’s a toy.
I also very sneakily gave him the idea that the piggy biscuit was a spiderpig. So now it’s spiderpig to him!! Heheh so much fun molding innocent kids’ minds… 😀
Here’s a video of him singing spiderpig… with me and my mom’s help!
Early education… what can I say? 😀
Spiderpig, spiderpig…
Just don’t tramautise him by biting his head off in the middle of the night.
Wait, why am I giving you ideas?
zomg check out his awesome fake smile!
LMAO!!!!!!!!!111111one
WHERE GOT FAKE SMILE??? HE WAS SMILING HAPPILY WHAT! SO EXCITED
YEAH SPIDER PIG
🙁 i want to be a kid again also. have a shameless ah yi who post my baby antics on the web for the world to see. sob sob
So, when are you coming down to check out the cafe, Suanie? To alleviate the potential shock of the prices, I’ll treat you to a coffee first! Then you can decide if you want to do a small gathering there. Let me know, It’d be nice to see you there.
Spider Pig,
Spider Pig,
Ryan’s eating Spider Pig,
Can it swing from a web,
No it can’t, Ryan’s bitten it.
Look out!
For half eaten Spider Pig!
The restaurants hawking the stuff could probably close down for the rest of the year – they make such fat profits out of the piggies and mooncakes.. they could close for a long holiday.
Hell ya, I just bought 2 for RM9 from Overseas Chinese Restaurant. Nearly couldn’t believe my ears when I heard the amount!
Somehow I was under the impression that they costs under RM1!!!!!!
come, let’s all bake some piglets for this Moon Cake Festival!! Or I bake them and then u guys buy lah…the money goes to charity, want??
I think the meaning of the pigs in cage means “water flows easily into the cage” = a lot of wealth 😀
Ryan so cute lah!!! can teach him sing Jay Chow’s song or not?!!!!
hahahhahaa, ending was best.
whooaaaa hold me nowww
whoaaaa warm my heart
stayyyyy with me
let loving start (let loving start)
i want it for my upcoming bday. kthxbai!
LOL… smart one on the last bit
Uh…There’s cheaper ones in Jaya Jusco, RM 2.50 only. Just saw it yesterday.