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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.
Jonah really loves to bake and spends most of his time in the kitchen. Photo: Miyumi Yanagi
Jonah Michio Tan may only be six, but he’s already an accomplished little baker who sells his cookies online through his own website, “Jonah Bakes”.
Not only that, Jonah, who suffers from the rare genetic condition of skeletal dysplasia – which makes it difficult for him to move about smoothly and results in his bone fracturing easily whenever he falls – hopes to own his own bakery one day.
The idea for Jonah Bakes came about one day when Jonah said to his mother: “Mummy, I want to be a baker, I really like to bake. Can I have my own bakery?”