I'm munching on 'gems'. If you have ever eaten gems, that exquisite biscuit with a colourful sugar topping, you would know why you simply can't stop at one. With every crunch, the tiny gem bursts into pieces and the icing sugar melts in your mouth, delighting your palate and filling you with oodles of childhood memories.In the past, when there were less food choices and imports, it was a popular snack. But it no longer appeals to the sophisticated taste of kids today. The high sugar content and food colouring may even render them unhealthy.
Well, it is always nice to treat ourselves to traditional gems like these before they do their disappearing act in Singapore.
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Where did you buy these? Grocery store?
I used to nibble off the sugary bit before popping the biscuit bit in my mouth!
Hiya I like them too :) But I found the current ones aren't as good as the good old day's. Somehow the 5-cent of gems that I got from the "mamak" store in the good old days, wrapped in some old newspapers or papers from telephone book, tasted a lot better :)
~ V
You can get gems from the supermarkets (Khong Guan) or buy them in loose pack from the smaller grocery stores.
Somehow everything tasted much better when we were little. Even the nuts sold by the kacang puteh man tasted yummier. I think it's not the food, but the pleasure of savouring these goodies in a different place, different time.
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