The waffle has come a long way from being a foreign food to a local favourite.
SLAP this crisp, soft biscuit with anything you have – peanut butter, kaya, chocolate, jam or just plain butter and you have a scrumptious snack that would just plain satisfy you.
Let’s go a step further. Put a scoop of your favourite ice cream to it, lace it with your favourite topping and what happens? You are simply in Cloud Nine!
The waffle is actually made of the same batter as that of pancakes. However, the waffle batter is toasted in a specially designed griddle that makes great square grids on it and once it is done, it is simply eased out and slathered with the ingredients of your choice.
When the craze for waffles started more than a decade ago, one of the most popular spots to have good waffles was at the A&W fast food outlets.
Simply scrumptious: Mainly an offering for dessert, the waffle is now also quite popular as breakfast fare.
Today, the waffle can be found in just about every food court or in small spaces within shopping complexes and even at departmental stores where the main strategy is to get a waffle to appease the children and husband and for the wife to sweetly walk her way into a grand sale!
The waffle has also become more localised as Malaysians shy away from sauces such as chocolate, strawberry, caramel with scoops of ice cream and generous blobs of whipped cream, to slightly less messier toppings of local favourites such as jam, kaya, peanut butter and the like.
Perhaps, it is not so much the taste but the ease of being able to eat it, walking or standing rather than having to sit and eat it with a fork and knife!
One of the first places to offer waffle more than a decade ago was the A&W chain of fast food restaurants with various delicious and appealing toppings along with quite reasonable prices, given the generous ice cream and fruit toppings that were available.
Mainly an offering for dessert, the waffle is now also quite popular as breakfast fare, as the frozen variety are available and the appliances that are used for making bread triangles filled with savoury fillings also now come equipped with waffle plates.
Waffle is actually available almost in every shopping mall in the country as the commercial machines are quite easy to haul from one place to another, given its size and the easy recipe for making the waffle biscuits.
At most hypermarket outlets, one of the first smells to attract you would be the final toasting of the waffle biscuit before it is smeared with the topping requested by a customer.
The only complaint would be that the waffle should actually be packed in environment-friendly packaging instead of plastic bags, and this is also because when it is placed in a plastic bag, the steam from the heat of the waffle will soften the biscuit and render it almost tasteless and soggy.
There is another craze for the crispy waffle biscuits, which are filled up with ice cream and this is an even more delicious morsel as it does not lose its crisp and is easy to eat, besides being sweet and a lot thicker than the soggy wafer cones that were and still are occasionally used to hold ice cream.
One of the best is at the New Zealand Natural ice cream stand in Bangsar Village in Kuala Lumpur, where the biscuits are just the right size and the ice cream, creamy and truly tasty!
It is not so much one ingredient or another but more the marriage between the waffle and ice cream that makes it truly unforgettable.
Sunday Metro hopes that readers would try out the recommended waffle sites by readers. For those who want to try this delicious snack at home and have a waffle griddle, simply use the basic pancake recipe and follow instructions on the appliances; add your favourite toppings and you are on your way to making your own waffles at home. Bon appetit!
SMS SENDERS’ PICK FOR BEST WAFFLE
> Best waffle at Latest Recipe Restaurant in Le Meridien Hotel Kuala Lumpur.
> Try the waffle at a & w in d lake gardens, seremban, it’s delicious with ice-cream topping. try u will love it.
> The best waffle that I had ever had is at a stall, located in front of KFC in Selayang Mall, Kepong, Selangor. From: Yin Peng
> Best waffle a&w pj. perfect crispy/soft balance. But should use real plates not paper!
> Try the ones in front of Bintang supermarket. It’s near the Motorola building. Yummilicious!
> Try Waffle Stop at Lot 10 Shopping Complex in Jalan Bukit Bintang
> Waffle World in 1 Utama is pretty good.
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