Festive treats: Ngoi packing freshly baked cookies with her three-year-old son Vernon Lim at their home in Singapore.
JOHOR BARU: From putting up festive decorations to making their favourite cookies, Malaysians in Singapore who are unable to “balik kampung” for the Chinese New Year are looking at ways to remind themselves of their hometown.
Adelynn Ngoi, 33, tried baking her aunt’s signature kuih bangkit cookies for the first time as a way to get a taste of home.
“One of the things I most look forward to every Chinese New Year other than reuniting with my big extended family at my late grandfather’s house in Jasin, Melaka, is my aunt’s melt-in-your-mouth kuih bangkit cookies.