If the smells of batter being fried is not reason enough to indulge in this oil steeped delicacy, then the colour photocopy of Anthony's quote highlighted in bright yellow on the glass frontage and the numerous news paper articles pasted here and there should be reason enough. "If this stall has been in the same business selling the same thing for the last 45 years, I figured they should be doing what they are doing very well!"I have to agree. Despite the usual culinary crappy truths uttered by Anthony Boudain, I must say that in his book "The Nasty Bits" where he wrote the above quote was actually rather inspiring, not to mention true!
I was however, rather unusually irritable on that afternoon when I went over the Maxwell Food Centre. Nothing like a good binge on the Oyster Cake to solve all my troubles, I gather.
So as I was queuing patiently waiting for the auntie to cut up my 2 peices of $1.50 wonder food, I was unceremoniously asked very loudly by the man behind me, "Oei, Ham Chim Pang is it?" Man! I would love to have made Ham Chim Pang out of that guy. How in the world can anyone bastardise this 45 year old historic fritter and call it a Ham Chim Pang?!
So, while I resisted a smart alecky comment, the lady boss calmly looked and him and said, "No, it's an Oyster Cake." From the way she answered the question, seems like she gets this comment quite a bit from those who don't know better.
Then he asked again, "Nice or not, huh? Nice or not?" Being the irritable me, I turned around sharply, rapped my knuckles against the glass wall with Anthony's quote and said loudly, "Not nice then it wouldn't be on the news already, dumb ass! Can't you read?!"
So he bought one. While I bought another on top of the 2 I had already asked for...
**Visual borrowed from hyacinthus.wordpress.com
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