{"id":2625,"date":"2026-10-01T18:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:37:17","slug":"malaysian-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"Desserts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">( a haiku chain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue stained pulut rice<br \/>golden caramel kaya<br \/>delicious pairing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gently peeled red and<br \/>white layers melt on my tongue<br \/>my childhood pleasure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White coconut shreds<br \/>conceal your core of liquid<br \/>gula melaka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soft snowy santan<br \/>crowns your verdant velvety<br \/>sweet under-layer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chewy red tortoise<br \/>resting on banana leaf<br \/>sweet mung bean paste tummy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steamed to perfection<br \/>gula melaka encased<br \/>in white rice flour disc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Folded crunchy shell<br \/>peanut and sugar filling<br \/>pasar malam treat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tall mound of shaved ice<br \/>drizzled with syrup and milk<br \/>red beans and corn capped<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slippery white scoops<br \/>of steamed soy tofu custard<br \/>nestled in sweet syrup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(in order: pulut tai tai; kuih lapis; onde onde; kuih talam;<br \/>ang ku; putu piring; apam balik; ice kachang; tau fu fa)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>( a haiku chain) Blue stained pulut ricegolden caramel kayadelicious pairing Gently peeled red andwhite layers melt on my tonguemy childhood pleasure White coconut shredsconceal your core of liquidgula melaka Soft snowy santancrowns your verdant velvetysweet under-layer Chewy red tortoiseresting on banana leafsweet mung bean paste tummy Steamed to perfectiongula melaka encasedin white rice flour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-haiku"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}