Does the good oLd biscuits' stiLL hoLd a pLace in your heart ?..

[laksaboy]

I miss army dog biscuits.

My BMT time already no more dog biscuits. Gone too were the SAF vocation cooks.

 

[Papsmearer]

Do they sell biscuits in tins and glass jars anymore?

Yes, they do, There is one corner shop in a row of shop houses on Jalan Selaseh (Seletar Hills) in between Jalan Jermai and Jalan Lakum. They still sell many varieties of biscuits in the Old big glass jars. What a sight for sore eyes, and a real piece of Singapore history. But very few of these stores left, its worth a pilgrimage there if u are inthe area.

 

[Papsmearer]

I will never forget those days when we were staying in a kampong in Lorong Tai Seng.

Poor dad and mum were miserably poor and working hard.

Dad does two job, whereas mum washes clothes for the "sikit-atas" in kampong.

Biscuits were a delight and we always would buy a kati of sota-piah from the nearby THONG BEE Provision shop.

The bespectacled boss here was a kind man and he would always throw in a few more extra biscuits even after his measuring-scales had hit a kati.

He even allowed mum and us to taste by claiming that the biscuits were still fresh.

We walked to the school and would pass Khong Guan Biscuit Factory at Howard Road off Playfair Road.

The aroma of the newly-baked biscuits wafted through the atmosphere.

In the evening, the Bayee-Jaga will be seated on his stringed Indian bed with his friends having Ngo Kar Pee a local brew from Lian Hup Distillery, Alexanra Road. Maybe history now....

We will greet them and ask for biscuits.

The jaga was charitable and would bring out some tins containing broken or damaged biscuits.

He will then give us till our hands were filled.

I guess that those biscuits were "condemned" and given to the jaga and other staff to eat.

But still to us poor peasant kids these was manna from heaven.

May God Bless the kindly elderly Bayee Jaga and his drinking cronies for being so kind.

And BTW, does anyone remember the rectangular box of Marie biscuits going by the brand, HUNTLEYS. The smell was truly good. It was expensive and we could only taste it during New Year day.

How nice if someone has that tin and post it for us to view.

Hahaha, remind me of my early life, poor like fuck too. So, poor that we had to go to the Ayam soap factory (near Holland Village) and wait outside the factory gates for a freind that works inside. He will bring out for us those soap ends and soap shavings left over after they cut the block of soap, and we take it home in a plastic bag and used it to wash clothes and bathe. Too poor to buy those nice soap they advertised in the newspaper. LOL.

 

[moolightaffairs]

best cream crackers!!! eat on its own or break it into half and dip it in to a cup of hot coffee!!!

 

[king_of_abalone]

If you haapen to be in the USA and you ask for biscuits, you get these:

http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=biscuits+and+gravy&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YlwpUP71DoKsrAf2qoHQBQ&ved=0CGAQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672#biv=i|70;d|uZUi-tUL3MiTrM:

 

[hawker]

how this!

Just ate this for morning kopi break.

 

[hawker]

I will never forget those days when we were staying in a kampong in Lorong Tai Seng.


May God Bless the kindly elderly Bayee Jaga and his drinking cronies for being so kind.

And BTW, does anyone remember the rectangular box of Marie biscuits going by the brand, HUNTLEYS. The smell was truly good. It was expensive and we could only taste it during New Year day.

How nice if someone has that tin and post it for us to view.

Bayee Jaga, Malay Macik, Chinese boys.....

Kampong Spirit forever destroyed by PAP:(

 

[halsey02]

best cream crackers!!! eat on its own or break it into half and dip it in to a cup of hot coffee!!!

Hup Seng Lousy 'soda piah'...one man's meat, another man poison...Jacobs better, but the current Jacob's , so-so!

 

[Jlokta]

Bayee Jaga, Malay Macik, Chinese boys.....

Kampong Spirit forever destroyed by PAP:(

Not only kampong spirit, every other thing also destroyed by them.

 

[Jlokta]

If you haapen to be in the USA and you ask for biscuits, you get these:

http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=biscuits+and+gravy&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YlwpUP71DoKsrAf2qoHQBQ&ved=0CGAQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672#biv=i|70;d|uZUi-tUL3MiTrM:

this one machiam scones.

hard & tasteless.

 

[ThugSin]

 

[dietcoke]

yes, i love the navel biscuits. will always eat the biscuits first and 'store' the icing for later. thought of it, really want to eat them now.

and as for marie biscuits, i remember there is another type that is more saltish, and is refered to as 'cereal' biscuit..

 

[uboleha]

then breakfast/lunch was jacobs soaked in condensed milk drink....
...also missed the ovaltine biscuit..cant seem to find it now..

 

[halsey02]

then breakfast/lunch was jacobs soaked in condensed milk drink....
...also missed the ovaltine biscuit..cant seem to find it now..

Not so long ago, I could buy OVALTINE biscuits, made in Jamaica from F Price, but not now. Anyone remember WANDER Singapore? the factory at Jalan Tukang was it Lama?? in Jurong the manufacturing plant for Ovaltine & biscuits.

I missed the original Jacobs, like you said, can eat that breakfast, Lunch, Tea Time, Dinner, Supper...dip in Kopi O or a glass of Condensed milk or spread condensed milk over the biscuits & eat with plain water..

 

[Fishypie]

Think OvaLtines' products have be overtaken by MiLo ?..or do they cease to operate here anymore ?..

 

[Raiders]

how this!

This biscuit I used to pray to the good brothers every lunar 7th month :o

 

[jw5]

Not so long ago, I could buy OVALTINE biscuits, made in Jamaica from F Price, but not now. Anyone remember WANDER Singapore? the factory at Jalan Tukang was it Lama?? in Jurong the manufacturing plant for Ovaltine & biscuits.

Yah hor, where can we get the ovaltine biscuits these days? Now that u mention it, I miss it.................

 

[looneytan]

how about this, bros

used to eat a lot but not now

 

[po2wq]

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how about this, bros

used to eat a lot but not now

datz called 花生酥 ... peanut cookie ... mayb mor available during cny ...

 

[looneytan]

... peanut cookie ...

not peenut, cashew nut